A senior technology analyst has slammed security company Symantec for trying to attribute the WannaCry ransomware attack to a group believed to have North Korean links.

Exactly why Eugene Kaspersky is continuing to talk about Windows XP when discussing the WannaCry outbreak is puzzling when his own company issued statistics showing that 98% of the infections were on machines running Windows 7.

Content platform provider OVO Mobile has inked a deal with Water Polo Australia to broadcast live and exclusive coverage — on mobile devices — of the National Water Polo League and other major water polo tournaments in the lead-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Human resources tech company Xref has won a tender to provide automated, online candidate referencing to NBN Co for the National Broadband Network.

MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has announced the release of MariaDB TX 2.0, what it describes as the "most functionally complete, open source transactional database solution for modern application development".

A survey of Australian business workers revealed that over a quarter of respondents believed it was common practice in their industry or sector to use bribery to win contracts and nearly a third believed Australian companies often reported financial performance as “better than it is”

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