Users of the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet are being drafted into a botnet used for distributed denial of service attacks, the security firm Malwarebytes says, adding that this came after users were initially prompted to download a bogus update that stole their digital currencies.

British multinational automotive company Jaguar Land Rover has plans to allow drivers of its vehicles to earn cryptocurrency and make payments on the move using connected car services being tested by the manufacturer – in exchange for enabling their vehicles to report data about road conditions.

The world’s largest food manufacturer, Nestlé, has embedded SAS analytics into key processes to help sense consumer demand more accurately and reliably across the globe.

Dell Technologies and Microsoft have announced an expanded partnership that includes a fully native, supported, and certified VMware cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.

Fifty nine percent (59%) of Australian IT jobseekers value salary as the most persuasive factor when accepting a new job offer, according to a newly published survey which warns that Australia’s IT talent shortage is set to continue in 2019.

The chief executive of a cyber security firm in Canberra says the announcement of $156 million in funding by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to bolster cyber security efforts that are in place to guard the country's communications networks, would do little to directly improve the protection of government agencies.

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