The hackers behind the theft of nude photos of various celebrities used a targeted phishing attack to compromise Apple accounts, the company said. The incident should serve as a wake-up call on cloud security and privacy. [ + ]

Meat pies in the IT age; Coding error missed for six years; Navigation satellites lost in space; 'Beam me up' healthcare; The apps that Apple reject. [ + ]

Telco industry body Communications Alliance is willing to negotiate with rights holders and the government over proposed efforts to crack down on piracy, including blocking sites and penalising infringers. [ + ]

Wearables will infiltrate the enterprise whether an organisation is in favour of the trend or against it, and sooner than most companies realise. [ + ]

A cost benefit analysis says Australia would be $16 billion better off under the Coalition's NBN; and the US state of Oregon sues Oracle for more than US$200 million. [ + ]

If legislation for mandatory data breach reporting currently before the Senate passes, Australian businesses will be required to publicly disclose any data breaches they suffer. [ + ]

Telstra has arranged to form a network applications and services joint venture with Indonesia's PT Telkom as part of the company's Asian expansion strategy. [ + ]

The Comms Connect conference and exhibition at the end of September will see 1200 industry professionals gather to discuss business- and mission-critical converged communications needs and challenges for the 21st century. [ + ]

HP Enterprise Services and Avaya have teamed up to provide cloud-based unified communications and contact centre services for enterprises. [ + ]

Specialist business-to-business magazine and digital publisher Westwick-Farrow Media (WFM) - publisher of Technology Decisions - has launched Field Service Business, Australia's first dedicated media channel for the field service sector. [ + ]

A 90-day web traffic analysis shows that 71% of the host names requested by web users worldwide were sites appearing for only one day, and as many as 22% of these were malicious. [ + ]

Those who wish to implement cloud services are best served by employing vendors who are focused on consultative solutions over those who simply deal in components. [ + ]

IBM will switch on its first Australian SoftLayer data centre in Melbourne next month as part of its US$1.2 billion ($1.29 billion) investment in its global cloud services capacity. [ + ]

Despite increasing demands on data centres and the rapidly increasing cost of energy, it is possible to limit the impact of power costs in data centres. [ + ]

The move to e-government offers many rewards and eliminates many risks arising from uncontrolled, unconsolidated, unstructured information. But it can also open up new sources of risk that need to be recognised and confronted. [ + ]