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Man installed Mac malware on thousands of machines: claim
A man from the city of North Royalton in Ohio has been charged with allegedly creating and installing malware on thousands of Apple computers for more than 13 years. A statement from the US Department...
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Micro Focus shares hit after results miss forecasts
British technology group Micro Focus has seen its shares fall after the announcement of half-yearly results earlier this week, when it said that its revenue would drop by between 2% and 4% in the 12...
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Dropping silent line charges good for consumers: ACCAN
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network says Telstra’s decision to remove charges for telephone users who want to use its silent line services will lead to better consumer outcomes and...
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Bitdefender, NETGEAR seal IoT security licence deal
Global security company Bitdefender has done a deal to license networking provider NETGEAR to include its IoT security technology in the latter's networking devices. Bitdefender says that with advanced...
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GPK Group selects Dell EMC Cloud
Melbourne and Brisbane-based IT service provider, GPK Group, has selected Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack to underpin its hybrid cloud offering. The deal will see the deployment of the first...
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TechnologyOne says $40m in local govt wins drives growth
Listed enterprise software company TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) says it signed 240 new deals across Australia, New Zealand and the UK in 2017. This included deals valued at $40 million with Australian local...
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Winterbottom leads Genesys government sales
Customer experience and contact centre vendor Genesys has appointed Tony Winterbottom as principal for its ANZ government practice. "In today's digitally-driven world, government agencies are required...
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Skype teams up with Signal to offer encrypted chats
Open Whisper Systems, the maker of the privacy-focused Signal messaging app, will be helping Microsoft to introduce a Private Conversations feature in Skype. The new feature will be powered by the...
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Barcelona plans move to open source software
The city of Barcelona plans to move its workers to open source software, with proprietary applications being the first to be replaced. A report in the Spanish newspaper El Pais said the initial goal...
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Intel tells select customers not to use its bug fixes
Processor giant Intel has told some of its customers that the microcode patches it issued to fix the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in its products are buggy and that they should not install them. The...
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Satyam fraud: PwC gets two-year auditing ban in India
India's market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, has banned PriceWaterhouseCoopers' affiliates from auditing any listed companies in India for two years. The punishment is for...
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Lenovo finds and removes backdoor from two switch models
Lenovo has found a backdoor in two of its switches that could give an attacker access to the switch management interface and allow settings to be changed, expose traffic and also effect a partial or...
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Swinburne chooses to go with SUSE Enterprise Storage
Swinburne University of Technology has announced that it is using SUSE Enterprise Storage for its rapidly increasing storage needs. SUSE Enterprise Storage is built on the open source Ceph project and...
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CSIRO undertakes voyage to understand ocean impact on climate
The CSIRO has deployed a number of deep sea floats in the Southern Ocean to help increase the understanding of oceans, the way they warm and their impact on climate. The deep water Argo floats are...
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Bid to block cryptocurrency regulation in South Korea
The South Korean Government's attempts to regulate the use of cryptocurrencies has led to mounting support for a petition seeking to stop the efforts at curbing use of such currencies. The petition has...
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‘Self-serve’ IT predicted as way of the future
2018 will be the year that “self-serve” IT goes mainstream, as organisations look to become more agile by decentralising IT and empowering internal teams to drive more of their own innovation,...
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CFA Societies beefs up executive team
The investment professionals group CFA Societies Australia had boosted its team with the appointment of two key appointments to its Advocacy Council and to its National Diversity Committee. Stephen...
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New technology adoption crucial for retailers’ digital transformation: survey
More than half of IT decision-makers in the retail sector say their company will need to adopt new technology in the next three years to evolve and stay competitive, with 97% saying cloud-based...
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Nokia, Optus seal 5-year network deal
Nokia and Optus have inked a five-year agreement under which Nokia will manage and maintain key components of Optus' network infrastructure, operations and field maintenance. As part of the contract,...
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Mini review: Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
How does Crucial's latest SSD compare with the previous model? iTWire recently reported the debut of Crucial's latest SSD, the MX500. We received a review sample, and put it to the test in the same...
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