Malicious attackers are abusing a Cisco utility to scan the company's switches and change software in order to stage attacks, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group has warned.

The way in which the decision by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to launch a probe into the leakage of personal information of Australians by Facebook is being reported is laughable, says Sam Varghese.

If managing tons of team data gives you that sinking feeling, then Dropbox's new Smart Sync and selective sync feature should leave you feeling a lot more buoyant.

Telstra has selected US-based data centre and cloud security company vArmour to help secure the privacy of its secure applications and data.

The chief data protection officer at a French cloud computing company says it is a pity that different countries and regions are coming up with data protection laws that are not uniform, making their implementation more complicated, especially for international companies.

A variant of the Mirai botnet is likely to have been used in attacks against one or more companies in the financial sector in January, the security firm Recorded Future claims, pointing out that this is the first time a botnet made up of Internet of Things devices has been used since Mirai.

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