Hackers may have accessed the personal information of up to 465,000 holders of cash cards from JPMorgan Chase & Co in an attack on the bank's network in July. [ + ]

After selling off AAPT's consumer division in 2010, Telecom NZ has found a buyer for the telco's remaining wholesale and corporate business. [ + ]

Industry and government must invest in capability building if Australian businesses and individuals are to fully reap the benefits of next-gen broadband, a new report urges. [ + ]

A Deloitte report details how women remain underrepresented in Australian ICT, with a particular paucity at the top level, and calls on the industry and the education sector to respond. [ + ]

The m-commerce revolution and the growing popularity of targeted hacking attacks will make mobile devices a key target for cybercrime in 2014, Trend Micro's Sanjay Mehta warns. [ + ]

There are four cognitive biases highly relevant to future decisions: confirmation bias, status-quo bias, projection bias and the current-moment bias. Learning about our own cognitive biases can help make better long-term decisions. [ + ]

Mike Quigley has defended the decisions made by NBN Co during his time at the organisation and highlighted "deliberate efforts to impede the progress of the NBN" in a speech at a TelSoc event this week. [ + ]

The revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the emergence of cyber-mercenaries were two of this year's key cybersecurity trends. [ + ]

An NBN based on the Coalition's FTTN-focused model is unlikely to be completed on time and would not support the same business-class features as Labor's FTTH-based model, according to a document prepared for the incoming Abbott government and leaked to the media. [ + ]

UXC Limited will pay at least $24m for Keystone Management Solutions, a reseller of cloud-based enterprise service automation offerings from ServiceNow. [ + ]

Victorian government agencies are underprepared to deal with cyberattacks on their ICT systems, according to a report from the state's auditor-general. [ + ]

Teams from MOYB and Millipede have won a Ford Australia hackathon to develop innovative mobile apps that can be operated using in-vehicle voice controls. [ + ]

Hackers have broken into the Crime Stoppers website and published what they claim is a list of police and government email addresses and encrypted passwords, with an Indonesian group saying the attack was retaliation for Australia's attempts to spy on their president. [ + ]

Australian telecom operators are still grappling with a growth slump that started in 2011, and opportunities for service revenue growth are limited, according to BuddeComm. [ + ]

Supporters of the original vision of the NBN delivered MPs a petition with over 270,000 signatures advocating for FTTH technology, but online support did not translate to feet on the ground. [ + ]