Australian workers’ proficiency in technology has improved with 65% of employees considering themselves either experts or skilful with digital technology, according to a survey by technology research and consulting company Gartner.



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.

The NPM repository account linked to a popular node.js was hijacked for a while on Friday and used to spread a malicious script, the security firm Sophos claims.

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 cloud providers, including itself.

Smartphone company vivo is pushing its vivo X60 Pro 5G, launched in May, as a good way to avoid returning from a big night out with a mass of blurry pictures on one's smartphone.

Deloitte Australia has appointed Steve Jansz to the role of managing partner for risk advisory, effective 1 December 2021.

B2B e-commerce provider Sana Commerce has appointed Marcus McNamara as head of APAC.

Share trading and superannuation platform Superhero has closed its latest capital raise of $15 million, with the funds to be used to supercharge the company’s growth.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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