Austraia

Telstra is looking to take on a range of IT professionals to bolster its $1.1 billion contract with the Department of Defence.

The telco has put out a call for specialists in the areas of service delivery, tech support, security architecture, network and systems engineering, unified comms, IT network architecture, IT operations, firewall and intrusion detection systems, network security and cyber security, among others.

Police have swooped on a Romanian hacking ring accused of being behind Australia's largest credit card fraud.

The gang is alleged to have stolen half a million banking details and cashed out some $30 million in goods from 30,000 credit cards.