Hi John, Malicious attackers are using the names of well-known firms like Xero and Tax Store Australia to try and trick Australians into installing a variant of the Ursnif banking trojan on their Windows computers.
US sanctions imposed on Russia in August 2017 have hit Microsoft sales. The sanctions are preventing at least two distributors of Microsoft products in that country from transacting with more than 200 Russian firms on the terms they used to. A successful demonstration of 400Gbps speeds over 61.5 GHz spectrum on Telstra’s transmission network in Melbourne has shown "the highest spectral efficiency per fibre pair ever achieved in a live environment and enables up to 30.4 terabit per second (Tbps) bandwidth". Nearly a billion people in 20 countries were affected in some way by cyber crime in 2017, a report from Norton by Symantec claims, after a survey of 21,549 individuals aged 18 and over in these countries. Of the 978 million affected, 6.09 million were from Australia. Soft skills, such as communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, and leadership, are seen to be important when it comes to hiring, but technology workers are lagging behind, a survey claims. Malicious attackers are using the names of well-known firms like Xero and Tax Store Australia to try and trick Australians into installing a variant of the Ursnif banking trojan on their Windows computers. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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