iTWire - Indian body seeks details of Amazon deal with Indian retailer

India's second biggest retail outlet, Future Retail, has been asked to submit details of a deal with Amazon to the Enforcement Directorate, an Indian law enforcement agency. The news agency Reuters said on Tuesday Future had sold its retail...

iTWire - New DDoS attack vectors may spell trouble in future: Kaspersky

The discovery of a way to spoof an IP address over TCP and a method to send requests to closed ports in a communications service network could both be potential vectors for a spate of DDoS attacks in future, the cyber security firm Kaspersky says....

iTWire - SolarWinds investors sue company over supply chain attacks

Investors in SolarWinds have sued the directors of the company, claiming they were aware of the risks that the firm's software posed but failed to act to prevent devastating attacks that came to light last year. The suit was filed on 4...

iTWire - Splunk’s Simon Eid joins MongoDB in APAC lead role

Former Splunk executive Simon Eid has taken up a newly created role at MongoDB as senior vice president of APAC. MongDB says Eid, based in Melboune, will be in charge of accelerating the company’s strong growth in the ANZ, ASEAN and Japan...

iTWire - Daily Mail praised for its journalism – by Windows ransomware gang

London's Daily Mail does not normally receive praise for the journalism it produces, but it has recently been lauded by an unlikely source: the Conti ransomware gang. In a tweet, the gang, which recently conducted a hit on UK jeweller Graff...

iTWire - Assange appeal outcome awaited, US lawyers mum on alleged CIA plot

Lawyers pushing to overturn a British verdict to deny the extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US have avoided any mention of a report that the CIA planned to kill him in 2017, during the two-day appeal that ended...

iTWire - TSMC founder questions US move to rebuild chip supply chain

A veteran of the semiconductor industry has cast doubts on whether the US$52 billion allocated by the US for investment in its chip industry will be enough to rebuild a complete supply chain in the country. Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan...

iTWire - Women in STEM jobs face pay gap of 22%: national survey

Women in the professional, scientific and technical services industry face a pay gap of 22% compared to their male counterparts, an advocacy group for professionals says following a nation-wide survey. Professionals Australia said in a statement...

iTWire - UK spy agencies sign cloud deal with Amazon Web Services

The UK's signals intelligence organisation, GCHQ, and MI5 and MI6 will use Amazon Web Services for hosting classified material in a deal estimated to be worth up to £1 billion (A$1.83 billion) over a decade. The Financial Times, which cited...

iTWire - Facebook acknowledges Apple privacy changes have hit its revenue

Facebook has cited the privacy rule changes made by Apple in April for the uncertain outlook it faces in the fourth quarter, after the company released third-quarter results on Monday. Chief financial officer David Wehner said in a statement:...

iTWire - Microsoft claims SolarWinds attackers targeting cloud providers, MSPs

Microsoft claims to have detected what it characterises as nation-state activity by an adversary it calls Nobelium — the SolarWinds attackers who are also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear — trying to gain access to customers of multiple...

iTWire - Press freedom bodies call for Assange charges to be dropped

Pressure is being ramped up on the US as the date approaches for Washington's appeal on Wednesday and Thursday at the High Court in London against a ruling denying its request to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. A...

iTWire - Windows ransomware gang moves earnings, others slam US after REvil takedown

A number of Windows ransomware gangs have reacted to the reported takedown of the REvil gang, with one of them, Darkside, now known as BlackMatter, moving some of the bitcoin it holds, according to a statement from the cryptocurrency tracking firm...

iTWire - Windows REvil ransomware gang taken down by US spies and allies: claim

The REvil ransomware group was taken offline by intelligence agencies and law enforcement from the US and a number of its allies, the news agency Reuters claims. The agency cited three private sector security experts working with the US Government...

iTWire - ABC refuses request to rethink iview data-sharing decision

An internal review by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of its decision to reject a Freedom of Information request from a security researcher, who sought information on its sharing of data through iview, has upheld the original decision. The...

iTWire - ABC iview user data collected through Google Analytics stored in the US

Any data collected by the ABC through the use of the Google Analytics 360 Suite for its iview service is stored in the US, according to the lone document released to a security researcher who sought details about how such data is used. As iTWire...

iTWire - Amazon accused of lying to House panel over business practices

Online retail giant Amazon has been accused of misleading the government's Committee on the Judiciary about its business practices, in the wake of a Reuters report that the company was copying Indian products and manipulating search results to...

iTWire - Cyberattackers strike payday as ransomware attacks increase tenfold

Ransomware has emerged as one of the defining cybersecurity threats of 2021, witth attacks increasing tenfold over the past year and the trend set to continue as cyberattackers see lucrative paydays from ransomware operations. That’s the view of...

iTWire - German developer Ettrich's dream, KDE, is now 25 years old

The first advanced desktop environment for Linux users, KDE, has completed 25 years in existence, a testimony to the fact that free software is very much alive and kicking. German software developer Matthias Ettrich [seen below, right, in a photo...

iTWire - Infosec expert Beaumont slams Microsoft over hosting malware 'for years'

A British tech researcher, who quit working as a security threat analyst with Microsoft a few months back, has called on his former employer to act speedily to remove links to ransomware on its Office365 platform. In a tweet sent on Friday,...