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Is your enterprise network IoT-ready?
The need to implement better, more secure network procedures and tools to safeguard IoT devices will only grow as more stories about breaches crop up in the future, according to a senior official at...
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Why Dan Tehan should have nothing to do with cyber security
Dan Tehan has just provided the country with adequate reasons as to why he should not be allowed anywhere near any post that has anything to do with online security. Least of all a federal ministerial...
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Google's Chrome browser to block some ads
Google always gives as good as it gets. That has been the hallmark of the company that now owns both Web and mobile search and takes a big share of the revenue from advertising on both platforms. After...
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Vault 7: guide to leak data from Samsung TVs released
A guide for recording and exfiltrating audio data from Samsung F Series Smart Televisions has been released by WikiLeaks in the latest of its Vault 7 data dumps which it says came from the CIA. The...
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Canadian team developing means to bypass Web censorship
Researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo are developing technology that will allow residents of countries where the Internet is censored to access restricted websites. Called Slitheen — after...
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Consumer law review moots bigger fines for breaches
Recommendations in the final report of the Australian Consumer Law Review, undertaken by Consumer Affairs Australia and New Zealand, will affect a number of retailers, life insurers and providers of...
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TCS announces Australia expansion as 457 visas scrapped
Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services has decided to set up an innovation lab in Australia as a result of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's recent visit to India. It appears to be an...
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Progress's Armstrong adds APJ to EMEA responsibilities
Progress Software has broadened the responsibilities of Mark Armstrong, as reflected by his new title of vice-president and managing director, international operations for EMEA and APJ. Armstrong told...
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Megaport, Oracle collaborate in the cloud
Interconnection services provider Megaport has sealed a deal with Oracle to facilitate connections for Oracle customers customers via its data centre network. Under the cloud connectivity partnership,...
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Microsoft pushing Office users to online version
Microsoft has begun a campaign to push users of its Office desktop suite to switch to the online version, Office 365, by claiming that it delivers benefits. "When customers connect to Office 365 with...
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Aussie enterprises reactive to security needs to combat data breaches
Australia ranks highest amongst countries in the Asia Pacific region where enterprises do not have an action plan in place in the event of a data breach. And Australia and a majority of its Asia...
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Three months on, no Linksys router patches for remote holes
More than three months after being informed about remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in 25 router models, Linksys is yet to issue patches to remedy them. Researchers at IOActive Labs wrote that they...
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Vault 7: CIA, FBI hunting for leaker, report claims
Two of America's spy agencies, the CIA and the FBI, have launched a bid to try and discover who leaked a massive load of documents — which has been labelled Vault 7 and released in drips since 7 March...
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ISPs avoid adverse comment on Tehan's malware plan
Australia's big ISPs have danced around a trial balloon launched by Dan Tehan, the Minister assisting the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, suggesting that the government may make ISPs responsible for...
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NBN Co provides more alternative facts, paid for by the taxpayer
When do you know for certain that the folk who run a public sector project have realised that they will fail to achieve their goals and need to retreat into a world of fantasy? When you start seeing...
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OTT will become a $65 billion market globally by 2021
Over The Top content will become a US$65 billion global market by 2021 and it is being driven by masses of video content, according to an official at Ooyala. “It is a great time for companies...
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Large screen, 4K TVs now comprise one-third of sales
Shipments of smaller HD LCD panels dropped and larger 4K UHD panels have increased, accounting for 20 million of the 60.16 million panels shipped in Q1, 2017. Witsview, a division of Trendforce,...
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VIDEO: iPhone 7 blitzes Samsung S8, LG G6, Google Pixel and OnePlus 3T in...
Apple’s iPhone 7 is now more than six months old, but it still trounces its Android competition including the brand new Samsung Galaxy S8. When it comes to highly optimised technology, Apple is the...
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Cyber crime, data breaches to cost businesses US$8 trillion thru 2022
It’s a couple of trillion less than the current 2017 US deficit, showing just how severe the cost of cyber crime is to business globally. Today’s US deficit is US $20 trillion, but just under half that...
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NBN rockets to new speed high in gigabit wireless trial
The operator of the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, is cock-a-hoop over a speed trial in which the network hit speeds of 1.1Gbps downstream and 165mbps upstream in a recent fixed wireless...
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