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Thursday, 02 April 2020 22:32
How embracing Zero Trust will improve IT security
By Budd Illic ANZ Country Manager Zscaler
GUEST OPINION by Budd Ilic, ANZ Country Manager, Zscaler: The benefits of cloud platforms are now well understood within most organisations, however some IT teams are still hesitant to adopt due to the subject of security.
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Security
Thursday, 02 April 2020 12:25
Overcoming objections to using multi-factor authentication
By Mark Sinclair
GUEST OPINION Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been an effective security technique for years, yet many small and mid-sized Australian organisations are still reluctant to undertake a deployment.
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Security
Thursday, 02 April 2020 06:45
Google staffers in spat over revelation of Zoom zero-days
By Sam Varghese
A row has broken out between researchers from Google after ex-NSA hacker Patrick Wardle revealed the details of two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Mac version of Zoom that could be exploited to give the attacker root access. Neither vulnerability is remotely exploitable and can only be taken advantage of by a local attacker – someone who has physical access to the machine in question.
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Security
Thursday, 02 April 2020 00:01
Okta launches passwordless logins, new platform services
By Stephen Withers
Identity provider Okta claims that its new Okta FastPass is the first truly passwordless login experience across devices, applications, and operating systems including iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows. The company has also announced a number of platform services – some of which are used by FastPass – that accessible to customers and third-party developers.
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Security
Wednesday, 01 April 2020 11:49
Australian start-up Fast raises $30m to build tech for e-commerce
By Sam Varghese
An Australian start-up that is headquartered in the United States has raised $30 million in a series A funding round led by Stripe, with Index Ventures and Susa Ventures also participating.
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Business Software
Organisations that had not already adopted flexible working face particular IT issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Business Software
MariaDB says its new SkySQ is the first database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, optimised with a cloud-native architecture.
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Storage & Cloud Storage
Amazon Web Services' new Amazon Detective security service is now generally available.
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Security
Wednesday, 01 April 2020 06:07
Huawei reports smaller profit, warns China may hit back at US curbs
By Sam Varghese
Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has reported revenue of 858.8 billion Chinese yuan (US$121 billion) for the full-year 2019, a rise of 19.1% year-on-year, with profit of 62.7 billion Chinese yuan (US$8.8 billion). This was its lowest annual profit growth in three years, announced as the company warned that China would hit back against US measures that have got in the way of its progress.
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Business Telecommunications
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Wednesday, 01 April 2020 05:21
Marriott hotels breached, data of 5.2m believed to have been accessed
By Sam Varghese
Hotels and resorts operator Marriott has suffered a data breach, with information of about 5.2 million of its guests having been accessed, the company has said. It has a number of hotels in Australia.
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Security
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