There have been 86.93 million brute-force attacks on systems in Australia through the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol between February 2020 and February 2021, the global security firm Kaspersky has found.



Defence contractor ASC is undertaking a digital transformation of its critical business systems to set the ground for its digital shipyard transition.

The open-source OpenSSL project has released an updated version of its software, 1.1.1k, to fix two vulnerabilities, the severity of both of which has been described as "high".

TPG Telecom has welcomed the appointment of Canning Fok as its board chairman as billionaire David Teoh resigns from the board, while still remaining a large shareholder.

A group of supporters of Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has hit back at those calling for his ousting from the FSF, by putting up their own open letter calling for him to stay on in his current position.

However, Red Hat, the world's biggest open source company, has pulled funding from the Free Software Foundation and any events hosted by the foundation due to its allowing its founder, Richard Stallman, to rejoin the board.

US-based contact lifecycle management platform company Ironclad has announced the acquisition of clickwrap transaction platform provider PactSafe.

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