The email account of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a slew of accounts breached at both the State and Commerce Departments by attackers, claimed to be from China, who gained access through a vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.



A survey conducted for Hitachi Vantara has found that 76% of large Australian companies are overwhelmed by the amount of data they manage and 78% are concerned their current infrastructure will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands.

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies' AuthPoint Total Identity Security bundles AuthPoint multi-factor authentication with dark web credential monitoring capabilities and a corporate password manager.

Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is making a bid to return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of 2023, Reuters reports.

Industrial cyber security firm Dragos, acting in concert with with the US Government, has worked to help mitigate a number of vulnerabilities in select communications modules manufactured by industrial security vendor Rockwell Automation.

California legal outfit Clarkson Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against search giant Google over the company's recently announced move to scrape all publicly available data from the Internet for training its AI products.

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