The majority of Australian businesses providing essential service delivery do not have cybersecurity incidents identified in their risk register, according to an annual survey from CERT Australia. [ + ]

Owners of Apple devices are having their accounts blocked and are receiving ransom demands from hackers who appear to have compromised Apple's iCloud security. [ + ]

Report identifies case for cloud technology in common use systems for airports of the future, while nearly 80% of Australians support the use of biometric security to verify passenger identities. [ + ]

iiNet has been selected to build what it is calling Australia's largest free Wi-Fi network, covering 12 business districts across Canberra. [ + ]

Two-thirds of Australian businesses have not fully integrated their disparate data management systems, making it hard to form an integrated view of the customer, a survey suggests. [ + ]

Australian organisations are approaching bring your own device (BYOD) in a variety of ways. Some are adopting BYOD and report benefits from doing so; some reject it outright, feeling it's not appropriate for their organisation; and many more have not addressed the issue at all. [ + ]

Due to "rapid and coordinated" efforts by US government agencies, nearly all government websites that were vulnerable to the Heartbleed exploit were protected within three weeks. [ + ]

Australian Federal Police have arrested a 40-year-old from WA and an 18-year-old from NSW on suspicion of hacking web servers hosting a number of Australian and Indonesian government websites. [ + ]

SubPartners has revealed plans to build the Perth-to-Sydney APX-Central subsea cable, in tandem with its APX-West Perth-to-Singapore route and its APX-East Sydney-to-Los Angeles link. [ + ]

Telstra has begun disconnecting some NBN-connected communities from the copper network, under provisions that allow for disconnection 18 months after the NBN has been in place. [ + ]

Nineteen countries have come together in Turkey to hold an international exercise aimed at strengthening international cybersecurity preparedness. [ + ]

The ongoing Internet of Everything trend will create a future with trillions of connected devices, generating a total market opportunity of over $791bn by 2020, Frost & Sullivan predicts. [ + ]

Google has been ordered by an EU court to remove links to two pages a Spanish man would rather the internet "forgot", in a case that could have major implications for all online companies. [ + ]

The federal government has released a series of guides that it hopes will inspire small businesses adopt and use cloud computing services. [ + ]

Enterprise IT must embrace the mobile-first workplace or risk sliding into obsolescence, writes Ovum's Richard Absalom. [ + ]