A man who claims to be a member of the group behind the Windows REvil ransomware says the group takes in more than US$100 million (A$140 million) annually through ransom payments.
The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute has issued a research paper claiming that state-backed actors are launching more and more online attacks and disinformation campaigns to interfere in foreign elections and referendums.
The Australian Stock Exchange has put off a switch to a new blockchain-based system which it had last said would come on stream in April 2022.
Smartphone shipments in India, the second largest market after China, grew to 53 million units in the third quarter of 2020, the highest it has reached for a single quarter, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, adding that this represented a 9% rise year-on-year.
New Zealand’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission is moving to address concerns over increasing consumer complaints about the country’s telecommunications companies.
Cyber protection company Acronis has launched its first cloud data centre in New Zealand as part of its global deployment of 111 new data centres.
Two days ago, the NBN Co, that august organisation which is building the national broadband network, issued a media statement listing the first areas in the country which would get the means to upgrade to fibre as outlined in September.
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