US$2m exfiltrated from Indian bank using SWIFT system
The holders of three accounts are believed to be involved in "fraudulent remittances" from India's City Union Bank to the tune of about US$2 million. According to a Reuters report, the bank claimed...
View ArticleBig gaps emerge between countries on attitudes towards data protection in the...
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, can today reveal that while the vast majority of global companies (95%) have adopted cloud services, there is a wide gap in the level of security...
View ArticleInfinidat increases focus on regional storage market
Two out of three ain't bad, but three out of three is better - and that's what storage vendor Infinidat claims to deliver. Usually, engineers can deliver products that meet the required parameters for...
View ArticleHow do Australian organisations compare with other countries on attitudes...
•   Australian (43%) businesses are about as careful as Indian (49%) but more careful than Japanese (31%) businesses when sharing sensitive information with 3rd parties in the cloud environment •...
View ArticleCeBIT Australia 2018 conference program announced
CeBIT Australia, Asia Pacific’s largest and longest running business technology conference and exhibition, has released the 2018 conference program. CeBIT Australia will welcome 300 leading technology...
View ArticleRMIT's blockchain strategy course to prepare students for digitally literate...
Australia's first university short course on developing blockchain strategy, "built with industry and delivered by global blockchain experts", is being launched by Melbourne's RMIT. In response to the...
View ArticleRiverbed helps Qld's largest law firm 'boost employee productivity and...
WAN optimisation specialist Riverbed Technology has deployed its networking solution across Queensland's largest law firm. Riverbed Technology  has today announced that McCullough Robertson Lawyers,...
View ArticleNBN Co to boost capacity on fixed wireless network
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has announced that it plans to invest more in an upgrade programme to expand the capacity of its wireless towers. The company...
View ArticleCanada's Eastlink uses Ericsson's VoLTE tech to upgrade
Canada’s largest family owned and operated telecommunications company Eastlink will use Ericsson's voice over LTE technology to provide better services and lay the foundation for Wi-Fi calling and...
View ArticleACCC to penalise NBN Co if technicians miss appointments
Australian Consumer and Competition Commission chairman Rod Sims says rules will be introduced to penalise the NBN Co when its technicians do not turn up for scheduled appointments. The head of the...
View ArticleUS gives up bid to extradite UK hacker Love
The US has decided not to appeal the decision by a British court to oppose the extradition of British security researcher Lauri Love to the US to face charges of allegedly breaching the computer...
View ArticleApple cedes iCloud data control in China to state firm
The data of Apple customers in China will come under the control of a state-owned company from the end of the month, with the American firm set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data centre...
View ArticleVocus revises FY18 earnings down, drops dividend
The Vocus Group has reported $967 million in revenue for the first half of the 2018 financial year, with underlying net profit after tax (NPAT) of $68.6 million. The NPAT for the first six months of...
View ArticleData firm says NPP can facilitate QR-based payment system
A payment acceptance system based on QR code could be one use of the New Payments Platform that fintech companies could create, the data and analytics company Global Data claims. QR is a...
View ArticleScientists develop clip-on to turn smartphone into microscope
A 3D printable clip-on that can turn any smartphone into a microscope has been developed by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics. The smartphone microscope,...
View ArticleCBA avoids talk of customers leaving bank due to Apple Pay
The Commonwealth Bank appears to be unwilling to in any way talk about the possibility that the lack of Apple Pay on its platforms may lead to customers deserting the bank in favour of one that does...
View ArticleFacebook to use snail mail to verify US election ads
Despite all the talk about using artificial intelligence and machine learning in future, social media giant Facebook says it will take recourse to snail mail in order to verify that its next lot of...
View ArticleSamsung says it has begun manufacturing 30TB SSD
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass production of the world's biggest Serial Attached SCSI solid state drive, with a capacity of 30.72TB. A statement said the device would use the...
View ArticleBritain sticks with Huawei despite US fears
Intelligence chiefs in the US may have accused Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei of spying, but it appears that the UK has no qualms about working with the company. The top British cyber security...
View ArticleCBA adds Samsung Pay to MasterCard options
Commonwealth Bank MasterCard holders are now able to use Samsung Pay for transactions. Samsung Pay users can add their Commonwealth Bank MasterCard credit or debit cards to the app, and then make...
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