Business ITEx-employee sues IT ousourcer HCL over alleged pro-Indian bias
Written by Sam Varghese
A former employee of Indian IT outsourcing company HCL has filed a suit, claiming that the firm discriminates against non-Indian workers and games the American H-1B visa system.
Firms very poor at handling post-breach communications, book claims
Written by Sam Varghese
Companies involved in 14 major recent data breaches in Australia and the rest of the world — including human resources outfit PageUp People — did not even achieve a passing grade for the way in which they handled post-breach communications, the authors of a new book on breaches say.
Availery launches to put SAP people and projects together, and plant trees too
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Recruitment-tech startup Availery puts SAP experts and SAP projects in touch with each other, while also planting a tree for every user and project each month.
Symantec shares stats on app privacy and fraudulent Android apps with aggressive adware
Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Symantec has released new research on mobile app privacy on iOS and Android that uncovers how much personal info your apps are gathering, along with a list of 68 fake Android apps featuring aggressively awful adware.
Chinese state-sponsored attackers appear to be carrying out network reconnaissance of several organisations in Alaska, Nairobi, Kenya and Germany, using the assets of an elite university, the security firm Recorded Future claims.
Powertec launches 'connectivity game changer': myinsight.io
Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A claimed "revolutionary, world-first" connectivity module from communications provider Powertec, dubbed myinsight, promises to shake-up the IoT/E (Internet of Things/Everything) space, and it has been done by an Australian company.
Citrix Workspace and Citrix Analytics shipped as promised
Written by Stephen Withers
Two new Citrix products, Citrix Workspace and Citrix Analytics, address productivity and security issues around an increasingly mobile and flexible workforce.
SUSE says 6000 firms running SAP Business One on its Linux
Written by Sam Varghese
Six thousand customers globally are running SAP Business One powered by SAP HANA using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the Germany-based open source provider SUSE says.
Australia recorded 24 data breaches in the first six months of 2018, and stood fifth globally on a list that was headed by the US with 1074 leaks, according to the security firm Risk Based Security which recorded a total of 2308 breaches worldwide for the period.
OpenBSD chief slams Intel, says more CPU flaws likely to be found
Written by Sam Varghese
The head of the OpenBSD project, Theo de Raadt, has warned that more flaws related to speculative execution in Intel CPUs are likely to be found and that the two vulnerabilities found by Intel, as a result of examining the Foreshadow bug — found by two independent teams — are cause for much worry.
