At least seven federal government department agencies are expected to fail to meet a federally mandated July 2014 deadline for improving their ICT security, according to a report from the nation's Auditor-General, Ian McPhee. [ + ]

Implementing preventive cybercrime measures can be compared to the hopelessness of forever stacking sandbags to protect against a severe hurricane, says a report by Zurich. [ + ]

Following a sudden disk failure, Jeanswest's planned storage area network refresh had to be brought forward by eight months. The solution was implemented in one day. [ + ]

A group of 13 Australian undergraduates have joined students from 29 other countries in China to take part in the Huawei Telecom Seeds for the Future training program. [ + ]

Around 30% of Australian businesses took orders online during the FY12-13 financial year, and over a quarter had a social media presence, ABS figures show. [ + ]

Security firms detail newly discovered mobile malware samples with alarming capabilities, such as covertly installing additional apps, recording phone calls and sending money to attackers. [ + ]

Organisations need to understand how to embrace emerging technologies to bring them new customers or defend their existing bases. However, too many organisations are struggling to maximise the potential. [ + ]

When legal changes require modification to an organisation's mainframe applications, a third of ANZ CEOs choose to outsource the app development and testing work, a survey suggests. [ + ]

The Australian data centre services market recorded revenues of $698 million in 2013 - a growth of 17.2% over 2012 - while revenue from co-location services increased by almost 17% during 2013. [ + ]

Liberal Party senators have refused to support the latest incarnation of Labor's data breach notification bill, over concerns of ambiguous language and inadequate opportunity to comment during the bill’s construction. [ + ]

The growing develop your own application (DYOA) trend is driving demand in the platform-as-a-service market, according to a survey of IT leaders in eight countries including Australia. [ + ]

Approval for new projects will drive an increase in hiring of IT professionals across Australia, according to the latest report from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. [ + ]

With business use of mobile apps certain to increase, CIOs need to start planning to address the high total cost of developing and maintaining them, UXC Connect's Denise Carson argues. [ + ]

UNSW's new Australian Centre for Cyber Security at ADFA will bring together the largest cohort of security experts in Australia, according to the new facility's director. [ + ]

With cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce.com launching its dev kit for wearable technologies, promises that wearable tech will reach enterprise level may soon be realised. [ + ]