Richard Chirgwin

Richard Chirgwin is a veteran of Australia's tech press, covering IT, telecommunications, security, networking, and protocols. Prior to iTnews, he worked at The Register for 9 years.

Recent articles by Richard Chirgwin

TPG Telecom explores options for infrastructure business

TPG Telecom explores options for infrastructure business

Appoints Bank of America as strategic advisor.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 31 2022 10:25AM Telco/ISP
Airservices Australia launches major service management system upgrade project

Airservices Australia launches major service management system upgrade project

Wants integrated, virtualised system by 2024.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 31 2022 6:38AM Strategy
GrainCorp on the hunt for new CISO

GrainCorp on the hunt for new CISO

As security boss heads to Inghams.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 27 2022 12:30PM Training & Development
Medlab Pathology discloses February data breach

Medlab Pathology discloses February data breach

Some 223,000 people impacted, records include credit card numbers with CVVs.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 27 2022 11:22AM Security
Victoria to let homeowners tap into its digital twin

Victoria to let homeowners tap into its digital twin

Automating the paper-intensive planning permission process.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 27 2022 6:55AM Software
Privacy Act amendments land in parliament

Privacy Act amendments land in parliament

Privacy breach fines could exceed $50 million.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 26 2022 10:18AM Security
Gov invokes emergency coordination as Medibank breach worsens

Gov invokes emergency coordination as Medibank breach worsens

Insurer now says all Medibank, ahm, international student customers breached.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 26 2022 9:15AM Security
NBN Co tests service to detect accidental fibre damage

NBN Co tests service to detect accidental fibre damage

Senses vibrations near cables.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 25 2022 11:39AM Telco/ISP
Federal government taking a look at LEOsats

Federal government taking a look at LEOsats

Working group to fit Starlink-like services into telco policy.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 24 2022 12:16PM Telco/ISP
Atlassian prepping Jira Server patch

Atlassian prepping Jira Server patch

Fixing crashable third-party vulnerabilities.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 21 2022 12:15PM Security
Medibank confirms hackers have customer data

Medibank confirms hackers have customer data

Diagnoses and procedures part of the breach.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 20 2022 2:01PM Security
'Right to disconnect' recommended for Australian workers

'Right to disconnect' recommended for Australian workers

Work and care report wants more flexibility.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 20 2022 11:48AM Strategy
APA Group buying Basslink

APA Group buying Basslink

While government backing for Marinus Link could see another Tasmanian fibre link.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 20 2022 6:55AM Telco/ISP
Medibank's alleged attackers threaten data release, extortion

Medibank's alleged attackers threaten data release, extortion

Insurer enters trading halt.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 20 2022 6:50AM Security
Service NSW readies multifactor authentication trial

Service NSW readies multifactor authentication trial

SMS-based 2FA for phase one.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 19 2022 11:50AM Security
NSW Telco Authority signs NEC to build 5G lab

NSW Telco Authority signs NEC to build 5G lab

Core to run on AWS public cloud.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 18 2022 3:45PM Telco/ISP
Telcos ask for phased introduction of CDR

Telcos ask for phased introduction of CDR

Comms Alliance also asks for more time.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 18 2022 11:58AM Telco/ISP
Australian Digital Health Agency targets tech skills

Australian Digital Health Agency targets tech skills

But strategy doesn't address barriers such as system fragmentation.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 17 2022 12:20PM Training & Development
CEPA criticises Telstra for inefficient use of regional spectrum

CEPA criticises Telstra for inefficient use of regional spectrum

TPG should have cut a deal with Optus, submission claims.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 14 2022 12:00PM Telco/ISP
Juniper upgrades open source tools to wipe out huge number of bugs

Juniper upgrades open source tools to wipe out huge number of bugs

Vulnerabilities in NSS, libexpat, OpenSS, libxml2 and more.
Richard Chirgwin Oct 14 2022 11:50AM Security

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