Internet security technology company, Menlo Security, says its global web survey has shown that almost half of the 1 million most popular web site, as rated by Alexa, present some security risk either directly or via some 25 million background sites used for ad serving and other purposes.
Had the former Hewlett-Packard company not split into two in late 2015, its world renowned research arm, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, would have been 50 years old this year.
HP has opened a display and demonstration centre in the Sydney CBD, at 20 Martin Place, where channel partners and resellers can bring their customers to view and experience HP’s personal computing and printer products.
There’s a new weapon in the never-ending battle against cyber crime: Machine learning. It’s generating a great deal of interest, getting substantial backing from venture capitalists and even being billed as a must-have addition to the cyber-security arsenal.
Small business accounting software-as-a-service company, Xero, has completed what it says has been one of the largest data migrations onto AWS across Australia and New Zealand: more than 59 billion records, 3000 apps and 120 databases representing all data and applications for its 862,000 customers globally.
Huawei appears to be seeking to stake out a central co-ordinating role in the evolution of 5G mobile applications.
For the much-hyped next generation of cellular technology, 5G, the first major commercial use case for the emerging technology could be delivering broadband to consumers presently underserved or poorly served by fixed networks, according to Huawei.
Construction of the 14,000 kilometre Hawaiki submarine cable that will link New Zealand to Australia, Hawaii and mainland United States has started with a ground breaking ceremony at Bream Trail Farm, Mangawhai Heads, Northland attended by NZ prime minister John Key and communications minister Amy Adams.
The University of Auckland has launched its biggest commercial spin-off to date, artificial intelligence company Soul Machines, with backing of US$7.5 million in its initial financing round from Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Horizons Ventures.
VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger and CTO Networking, Bruce Davie, used the vendor's vForum conference in Sydney to give Australian IT professionals their first glimpse of VMware’s new Cross-Cloud Architecture.
Dimension Data has released the 2016 edition of its Network Barometer showing a sharp upturn in enterprise networking investments, but with many enterprises spending on technology to deliver short-term returns rather than meeting long term strategic goals.
Optus Business has formally opened its Advanced Security Operations Centre (ASOC) co-located with its network operations centre at its headquarters in Macquarie Park, Sydney.
According to Matt Henshall, the ‘head of things’ at global software development company Thoughtworks, the Internet of Things is reversing to some extent the trend of recent years of moving processing power to the cloud and instead distributing it at the edge.
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney are at the cutting edge of research in mobile communications technologies that will boost the capacity of future networks.
Professor Jill Slay, the director of the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at UNSW in Canberra, has delivered a scathing attack on the IoT industry for failing to design in security, on the vendor community for peddling false promises, and bemoaned what she sees as a general lack of leadership in cyber security.