Software giant Microsoft claims outages to its Outlook, OneDrive and Azure services earlier this month were due to distributed denial of service attacks staged by a group it calls Storm-1359.



Telstra will soon be using OneWeb's low earth orbit satellites to connect remote mobile base stations. Having agreed commercial terms, Telstra will begin moving hundreds of existing remote mobile base stations currently using satellite backhaul from OneWeb's low earth orbit (LEO) services.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies new managed security service providers program includes access to a local instance of the Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Solution.

UCaaS provider Access4 is continuing its distribution agreement with CommsPlus Distribution for another three years.

Annual spending on software in Australia and New Zealand grew by 12% year-on-year in 2022, reaching US$18.7 billion (A$27.2 billion), the technology analyst firm IDC says.

Russian security firm Kaspersky has lost its most senior researcher, with Costin Raiu, long-time head of its Global Research & Analysis Team, announcing that he would be leaving the company.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire
 


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