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Intel vPro computers at risk
If you are using Intel’s vPro chips from 2010 to its latest Kaby Lake and have Intel active management technology (AMT) enabled hackers could breach your networks. Intel has released an updated version...
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Shhh! Whispir pulls a Swift(y)
Mobile communications vendor Whispir has appointed Jonathan Swift as head of product and programs. "We're pleased Jonathan is on board to guide our products and technology, and help solve the...
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Neustar DDoS study: is the sample large enough?
ANALYSIS A study on distributed denial of service attacks in 2016 and the first few months of 2017 by the analytics company Neustar raises the question of whether the number of individuals sampled is...
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Shining light on dodgy Android apps
ESET have discovered yet another banking Trojan app – this time disguised as a Flashlight widget and targeting a potentially unlimited number of apps. iTWire has warned many times that simple apps...
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Fairfax Media to sack 125 journalists
Fairfax Media has announced that it will be cutting a quarter of its editorial staff at two of its newspapers and online sites. This will amount to about 125 jobs in all. The newspaper that will be...
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US employees ignorant of IT security policy – if there is one
Most US employees are not aware that their employer has policies covering security, use of social media, and for the use of BYOD devices. More than half of the 1013 office-based employees of the...
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Infosys to hire 10,000 Americans over two years
In what appears to be a bid to gain favour in the US, Indian outsourcing giant Infosys has announced that it will be hiring 10,000 American workers over the next two years. Infosys chief executive...
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FULL VIDEOS: Windows 10 S and Surface laptop, super pricey or Surface saviour?
While Surface Pro fans wait for a new Surface Pro 5, and as Google Chromebooks dominate in education for years, Microsoft has finally made a move. In the world of education in the US, Google's...
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Nuance gives Dragon more teeth
Nuance Communications has announced customisation and productivity enhancements for Dragon Professional Group and Dragon Legal Australian. Dragon Professional Group and Dragon Legal Australian have...
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Sennheiser amps up headphones
Sennheiser has released the next generation, HDV 820 digital headphone amplifier that provides reference class sound for reference class headphones. The concept is simple, hook it up to a digital audio...
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Games on Messenger boost content
There are now a surprising amount of ways to fill in dead time you may have. Whether it is on the commute, standing in line for a coffee, or simply couch-potatoing the opportunity to play game-slices...
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Sabre rattled and hacked
Travel industry software booking engine Sabre has disclosed what may be a massive breach of payment and customer data used by more than 36,000 hotels and accommodation providers. Security expert Brian...
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Gumtree seeks new growth, plants new Parkes
Setting itself up for the "next phase of growth," Gumtree Australia has appointed Roisin Parkes as its new CTO. If there’s one thing Gumtree knows about, it’s growing sales and growing interest in the...
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Switch to encrypted email if you value privacy
The average user trusts big name email providers despite multiple data breaches and in some cases trust. NordVPN’s recent survey has shown that people mostly trust big-name email providers, such as...
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May 4 is/was world password day
The first Thursday in May is World Password Day – essentially a day to promote better password habits. This year’s message is to #LayerUp Your Login by enabling multifactor authentication. A password...
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Labor claims ‘botched’ NBN rollout leaves emergency services without...
Two federal Labor Shadow Ministers have slammed the National Broadband Network over a ‘botched’ rollout which they say left emergency services in a remote part of Western Australia without satellite...
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Choice warning on using cardless cash for shopping on Gumtree
Consumer advocacy group Choice has warned consumers against using cardless cash when purchasing products through Gumtree. The warning from Choice comes after a Canberra student was scammed into buying...
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ACS Victoria says govt money will drive State’s tech sector, boost ICT jobs
The Australian Computer Society in Victoria sees the State Government’s investment in the Connecting Regional Communities Program (CRCP) as a way of building the technology capability and ICT jobs in...
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Global tablet sales 'on a slippery slope'
Worldwide tablet sales contracted 8.5% in Q1, 2017 as the migration from traditional slates to hybrid formats continues to escalate. According to IDC, the hardest hit was Apple’s iOS-based iPad in...
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Anti-strike tweet earns AAP journo flak from boss
The Canberra bureau chief of news agency AAP, Richard Lawson, has been slapped down by his boss after he posted a tweet critical of the journalists at Fairfax Media who are on a seven-day strike to...
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