The Australian Government has opened a Landing Pad in San Francisco, one of five planned facilities designed to help Australian technology start-ups crack the global market. [ + ]

Recent surveys show that Australian security professionals take email threats more seriously than their peers in other markets, but C-suite executives need to be more involved in security planning. [ + ]

After Village Roadshow filed legal action seeking to have an alleged piracy site blocked under new site blocking rules, IA has argued that this and other government approaches to stopping piracy are ineffective. [ + ]

Stolen Netflix credentials are selling for just 35 cents, 1.125 Tbps optical data rate achieved, and ACCC issues warning over romance scams. [ + ]

Telstra achieved a 0.8% increase in profit and 9.1% growth in revenue for the first half of FY2016, despite stricter competition in the fixed and mobile markets. [ + ]

The AIIA is inviting nominations from across all sectors of Australian innovation for the 2016 iAwards. [ + ]

There have been nearly 9000 .sydney domain names registered since its launch one year ago, and registrar Neustar is processing around 900,000 DNS queries for .sydney domains per day. [ + ]

Adelaide Festival Centre has engaged Optus Business to migrate its existing IT infrastructure to a hybrid cloud platform based on Microsoft Azure. [ + ]

While ANZ business leaders overwhelmingly believe that technology-enabled collaboration is key to competitiveness and can transform their workplace, only one in five believe their current tools are optimal. [ + ]

Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple needed an IT upgrade to help establish its tertiary education facility and stay connected with the Buddhist order's worldwide network. [ + ]

Cybersecurity experts have gathered at the ANU for a conference aimed at exploring the future of the internet and the threats nation state policies pose to its fundamental freedom and openness. [ + ]

ACMA and New Zealand's NZDIA have expanded their collaboration to tackle spam, malware and phishing scams to cover wider sharing of information and tools. [ + ]

Cisco plans to acquire Jasper Technologies for about $1.98 billion, almost 1000 jobs to go in Autodesk restructure, and Palo Alto reveals a Trojan that can spy on Skype users. [ + ]

AGL and the government have separately invested in Sunverge Energy's battery energy storage technology, while Australia's Redflow is preparing to launch its own battery storage product. [ + ]

Shares in Twitter briefly fell 13% after the company published its latest results showing that its monthly active userbase actually declined during the fourth calendar quarter. [ + ]