The communications regulator and Department of Communications have given conflicting accounts of when they were first alerted to the fatal Optus outage that resulted in four deaths and when the telco ...

Optus notified the government about its major triple-zero outage last month that led to the deaths of three people by sending two emails to the wrong address, a parliamentary committee has been told.

in brief Optus has blamed a spam attack on an email outage that occurred between late Wednesday and Thursday morning. "We did have some issues on Wednesday evening and our engineers rebooted the email ...