Freelancer releases its Q3 Fast 50, a quarterly index of the most sought-after skills - see the jobs which have shot up the scale this quarter and which have declined in demand.

A new malware campaign, that uses a modified exploit of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to download the trojan Agent Tesla and other malware such as the Loki information stealer, can avoid detection by most common anti-virus solutions, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group claims.

Windows ransomware known as SamSam has earned its creators almost US$6 million since late 2015, the security firm Sophos says, with the malware using carefully targeted attacks to obtain a ransom. Australia has been a target in about 2% of the attacks using this malware.