Online end of life planning platform Safewill has secured a $3 million Series A funding from Westpac’s Reinventure fund.

The REvil ransomware group was taken offline by intelligence agencies and law enforcement from the US and a number of its allies, the news agency Reuters claims.

IT services company Green Light has joined the Defence Industry Security Program.

Hotel commerce platform operator SiteMinder has appointed Pat O'Sullivan and Jennifer (Jenny) Macdonald as independent, non-executive directors.

The existence of sanctions did not prevent US suppliers from obtaining licences from the Commerce Department to ship billions of dollars worth of supplies to Chinese firms Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International between November 2020 and April 2021.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire


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