Questions have been raised over the fact that the American cloud provider Amazon Web Services, which was given a Federal Government contract to store data collected by the government's COVIDSafe app, is using a data centre in Sydney which is fully owned by a Chinese company.

Issues with Activision Blizzard’s bulk-banning of 70,000 players for cheating are starting to snowball. We asked the ACCC what customers’ rights were if they’d paid for a product but weren’t able to use it or get a refund - and we were given a response.

A group that was distributing Windows ransomware known as Shade or Troldesh has pulled up stumps and released about 750,000 encryption keys, offering an apology for its actions during its existence.

Security firm Check Point says it has encountered fresh samples of the Black Rose Lucy malware-as-a-service family, that it discovered in 2018, which have an added functionality: ransomware.

Mobile banking and financial services app Moneytree has closed a Series C funding round with an issuance of new shares through third-party allotment including funds of Fidelity International, to bring total funding to $45 million since the company’s founding in 2012.

Oracle has announced that video communications provider Zoom has selected its cloud infrastructure platform to support its growth and evolving business needs and to provide an essential service to customers.

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