Business ITVenafi and nCipher team to protect machine identities
Written by Stephen Withers
Security vendors Venafi and nCipher Security have joined forces to deliver a system they say enables organisations to scale the generation and protection of machine identities, even in complex, high-security environments.
Oh, what a feeling! Toyota Australia hit by cyber attack
Written by Sam Varghese
Toyota Australia has suffered what it says is a cyber attack that is believed to have affected its website and mail systems.
GoCardless grows Australian presence and products
Written by Stephen Withers
Australia is "a very attractive place for us to invest," GoCardless director of international expansion Pranav Sood told iTWire.
ESET researcher outlines horrors that can result from siegeware
Written by Sam Varghese
A senior security researcher at the Slovakian security outfit ESET has highlighted the dangers from what is dubbed siegeware – software that is used to secure building automation systems and that can, once hacked, result in horrendous outcomes.
The Melbourne Heart Group, a medical unit located at Cabrini Hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, has been hit by a Windows ransomware attack that has resulted in about 15,000 patients being locked.
Tech veterans Kazacos and Coroneos set up cyber venture
Written by Sam Varghese
Two veterans of Australia's technology and Internet industries have set up a company known as Icon Cyber that will attempt to gets its fingers into the growing cyber security market in the country.
Melbourne-based Soapbox.ai is applying AI to improve ITSM and other service desks.
Regulations surrounding data breaches mean more organisations should be using encryption to protect the information they hold, it has been suggested.
![Eugene Kaspersky: “[The year] 2018 was a crucial year for us."](/media/k2/items/cache/000469ad51dde4c4159ebd31c13f93c5_S.jpg)
Despite the US campaign against it and a subsequent big drop in North American business, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab says it has increased its global revenue for calendar 2018 to US$726 million, a 4% year-on-year increase.
Culture important for innovation: Tibco executive
Written by Stephen Withers
Culture, not just technology, is important when organisations seek to be innovators, an IT executive claims.
