Hackers targeted the family of a senior employee at a Brisbane-based company, TPG forms Wondercom to sell wholesale FTTB and Newsat's CEO and CFO sacked after company goes into administration. [ + ]

OpenLearning has been awarded a contract to deliver Australia's first federal government massive open online course, which will train thousands of government employees in regulatory impact analysis. [ + ]

Apple has unveiled more details about its upcoming iOS 9 release, giving a preview of new iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software that will be available later this year. [ + ]

The security perimeter has shifted from firewalls to identity management and now to content management, with the aim of preventing another Edward Snowden from succeeding. [ + ]

A new Android exploit injects pop-ups and crashes apps, vendors to pay $677 million in a price-fixing case and Intel buys Altera for $21 billion. [ + ]

The federal DTO is seeking to improve the experience of interacting with government through analytics, while the ACT Govt is upgrading its IT platform and NSW has outsourced its shared services functions. [ + ]

For the 'always-on business', the old 3-2-1-0 backup rule is still king - as long as it is balanced with the right mix of IT tools to manage the ever-changing demands in technology. [ + ]

Optus Wholesale and Satellite has entered a collaboration with Level 3 to help move online video and other content closer to Australians via content delivery networks (CDNs). [ + ]

Some 2.2 million Australians have signed up for a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) - now renamed a MyHealth record - and around 10,000 new people are applying per week. [ + ]

Cloud email security and archiving vendor Mimecast will shortly open two data centres in New South Wales to support its Australian operations. [ + ]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available from 29 July in 190 markets globally as a free upgrade to customers running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. [ + ]

Marine Rescue Queensland has turned to cloud computing to help improve information sharing and consistency of training across its 25 once-autonomous volunteer squads. [ + ]

Spending on public cloud IaaS is expected to reach US$36.6 billion globally by the end of 2018, with spending growing more than five times faster than overall IT spending.

Gartner expects Australian BPM revenues to increase 2.4% this year, below the global average. The firm is meanwhile predicting solid growth in sales of non-smartphone connected devices. [ + ]

This week: Space sail-craft falls silent, wrong calculators trip up students, Sydney's Opal losing money, a speedy robotic cockroach and just as you suspected… reality doesn't exist. [ + ]