iTWire - ACSC calls on Australian organisations to urgently adopt an enhanced cyber security posture

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is encouraging organisations "to urgently adopt an enhanced cyber security position. Organisations should act now and follow ACSC’s advice to improve their cyber security resilience in light of the...

iTWire - OPPO announces tie-up with Hasselblad for camera tech

Chinese phone manufacturer OPPO has announced a three-year partnership with the famous camera firm Hasselblad to develop camera technology for its flagship Find series. Last year, OPPO merged with its sibling OnePlus and the tie-up with Hasselblad...

iTWire - Global political and business leaders warn of possible Russian-sponsored cyber attacks

With tensions mounting in Ukraine, the New York Department of Financial Services and the European Central Bank are alerting governments, businesses, and financial institutions to prepare for a possible state-sponsored cyber attack from Russia....

iTWire - Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe if it can't target ads

Meta states in an SEC filing it is considering leaving Europe if it can no longer exchange data from European users with the United States, following the Schrems II decision. The Schrems II decision is a key ruling by the Court of Justice of the...

iTWire - Facebook parent Meta loses $332 billion in one day

Facebook's parent company Meta experienced it's biggest one-day loss in trading since it debuted on Wall St in 2012. The company saw a whopping 26% slump, taking $332 billion $US 237 billion) off its market value. Zuckerberg saw a $40...

iTWire - Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest takes Facebook to court over scam crypto ads

Australian billionaire mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest AO has launched criminal action against Facebook over scam cryptocurrency advertisements that used his image, claiming Facebook has breached anti-money laundering laws. Forrest...

iTWire - LibreOffice 7.3 Community arrives

LibreOffice 7.3 Community has been released, and this new version of the open source productivity suite features a large number of improvements to help users migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, or when exchanging documents....

iTWire - Tech leaders make their World Data Privacy day thoughts public on Jan 28, 2022

It's World Data Privacy Day, during Privacy Awareness Week, with some top tech leaders making their thoughts public on how to stay private. World Data Privacy Day is today, January 28, although the Office of The Australian Information...

iTWire - Data privacy laws will increasingly dominate business worldwide

Data privacy will continue to become a more significant consideration and it’s going to be exceedingly difficult to do business anywhere in the world without encountering data privacy laws, according to Richard Marr, General Manager, APAC, Auth0,...

iTWire - Canon Business Services acquires Microsoft partner Satalyst

Canon Business Services ANZ (CBS) has announced the acquisition of WA-based Satalyst. CBS says the acquisition strengthens application, security, data, and AI capabilities within the company, while providing the Microsoft specialist with the...

iTWire - Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard for $US 70b

Microsoft made big news when it bought Minecraft and when it bought Bethesda, but today’s news is a deal 10 times that. Microsoft has now announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for an eye-watering $US 70 billion. It makes Microsoft the...

iTWire - Samsung edges out Intel to take top spot in 2021 semiconductor sales

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics became the globe's top vendor of semiconductors in 2021, overtaking Intel for the first time since 2018 with a 31.6% rise in revenue to US$75.9 billion (A$105.2 billion), the technology analyst firm...

iTWire - DHL displaces Microsoft from top of Check Point's brand phishing list

Global logistics firm DHL was the most imitated brand in phishing attempts in the final quarter of 2021 tracked by the Israeli firm Check Point Research, with 23% of such emails containing a reference to the company. A statement from the company...

iTWire - US Windows ransomware attacks in 2021 little changed from 2020

Ransomware attacks on Windows systems in the US during 2021 showed a small dip from the previous year, with 2323 local governments, schools and healthcare providers hit, the security firm Emsisoft reports. The break-up was 77 state and municipal...

iTWire - ABC to go ahead with compulsory iview logins despite privacy concerns

The ABC will introduce compulsory logins for its iview service in a staged manner this year, despite the fact that there have been privacy warnings about the sharing of user data with companies like Google. iview is a service that allows viewers...

iTWire - Melbourne-led research team finds new way to build quantum devices

A University of Melbourne-led team of researchers may have found a way to construct quantum computers cheaply and reliably. The new technique – developed by Professor David Jamieson and co-authors from the University of New South Wales,...

iTWire - More government funding for solar R&D

Arena's latest $40 million R&D funding round is intended to support projects that align with the agency's Solar 30 30 30 target of 30% module efficiency and 30 cents per installed watt at utility scale by 2030. Funding is being offered...

iTWire - Nokia Oceania official satisfied with 5G take-up in Australia

A Nokia official in the Oceania region says he is satisfied with the uptake of 5G in Australia, pointing out that about 80% of the smartphones sold in the country are now 5G-capable. Robert Joyce, chief technology officer for Nokia Oceania, told...