Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will submit an application on Thursday 23 December, seeking leave to appeal to the UK Supreme Court to annul the High Court decision on his extradition to the US.



Cloud-based solutions provider LogMeIn is to establish its zero-knowledge password management business LastPass as a standalone company.

Mortgage broker homeloanexperts.com.au has adopted Dialpad's unified communications system.

Global construction project management software company InEight has announced the next installment in a series of quarterly platform enhancements, the latest of which it says are designed to help minimise risk through price certainty, reduce operational costs with a digital twin, and enable customers to maximise use of daily tools for capital projects by leveraging a broad ecosystem of integration partners and data sets.

The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is partnering with Queensland blockchain company Civic Ledger, FNQ Growers, and Inclusive Growth Partners to de-risk agriculture development with grower-led water markets across northern Australia.

COMPANY NEWS: Since the first vulnerability in the Apache Foundation’s Log4j logging tool was revealed on 10 December, three sets of fixes to the Java library have been released as additional vulnerabilities were uncovered. This rapid iteration of fixes has left software developers and organisations worldwide scrambling to assess and mitigate their exposure with nearly daily-changing guidance. In the meantime, we’ve seen attempts to detect or exploit the vulnerability continue non-stop.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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