Microsoft has decided that a number of old modem drivers pose a security risk and thus disabled them entirely.

Stephen Rue’s exact wage has been kept secret, with Optus refusing to detail how much he was paid. But industry sources claim that he was pocketing more than $3 million a year, with questions being ...

The Optus outage chief flew to Adelaide months after its deadly triple-0 failure to quietly meet with a man whose wife died during the outage. The widower, who asked for his name to be withheld, said ...

Optus' chief technology officer Tony Baird is set to leave the carrier and will hand over the role to Telstra fixed and mobile engineering chief Sri Amirthalingam. Baird’s exit is the third Optus has ...

In a statement, Optus confirmed chief technology officer Tony Baird will leave the company with Sri Amirthalingam, who spent 36 years with Telstra before leaving in April 2025. The move comes as Optus ...

Optus announced a new chief technology officer. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short Telecommunications giant Optus has announced a new chief technology officer, following the disastrous triple-0 outage ...

Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is a versatile interface that's used in all sorts of devices — from smartphones to lifestyle products — to deliver data, power, and video signals. Most commonly, we see ...

Telecommunications company Optus published a report on December 12 into its Triple Zero outage in September that resulted in at least two deaths after hundreds of people were unable to reach emergency ...

Optus’ decision to outsource its mobile networks and call centres offshore contributed to delays in detecting a fatal Triple Zero outage, and the telecoms group should speed up plans to bring ...

An investigation into the Optus triple zero outage has revealed it can take up to a minute for an emergency call to be re-routed over another telco’s network under a process called ‘camp-on’. The ...

The Roy Morgan Risk Monitor data tracked the nine largest telecommunications companies to reveal that Optus was not only the most distrusted telco brand, but its recent fatal outage had significantly ...

When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...