China's cloud infrastructure services market grew 66.9% in the final quarter of 2019 as total expenditure reached US$3.3 billion, the tech analyst firm Canalys said, adding that the country represented 10.8% of the global total, making it the second largest market. Cloud services were extremely useful in fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

Security firm RiskIQ says it has tried several times to contact blender manufacturer NutriBullet to inform the latter of a JavaScript skimmer that was noticed on its international website on 20 February — an attack that has been identified as being carried out by one of the Magecart groups, in this case Group 8 — but has not heard back from the blender manufacturer.

Scammers in Australia are adapting existing technology to play on people’s fears around coronavirus and selling products claiming to prevent or cure the virus, according to consumer watchdog the ACCC.

VPN service provider NordVPN says it has recorded 165% growth in users of its NordVPN Teams solution due to more and more people working from home during the coronavirus outbreak.

The availability of the BlackBerry Spark Platform for Unified Endpoint Security (UES) and Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), plus the 2019 acquisition of Cylance (now part of the Spark division) has led to changes in responsibilities or title for some of BlackBerry's senior leadership.

Melbourne based renewable energy startup RayGen has been allocated $3 million in funding by the Australian Renewable Agency (ARENA) to conduct a technical and commercial feasibility study for a 4 MW “solar hydro” power plant to be built in north-western Victoria.

Internet infrastructure has experienced significant growth in demand and is being strained due to the increased amount of people confined to their home because of the coronavirus pandemic, consequently working and shopping remotely due to the enforced precautionary measures, according to a new report.

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