Employers have been warned that staff using their own laptops or tablets to transfer and store confidential business information could potentially compromise their business.

Business losses to cybercrime data breaches will rise from US$3 trillion each year to over US$5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11%, according to a new global cybersecurity report.

The financial impact of ransomware rose by 60% in 2018, losses from business email compromise (BEC) doubled, cryptojacking incidents - the unauthorised use of others’ computing resources to conduct cryptomining - more than tripled, and there continued to be a steady stream of high-profile data breaches, according to a report from the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance.

Bitcoin’s new normal bottom is US$10,000, according to the chief of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, deVere Group.

Small to medium businesses around the world continue to cite budget constraints and a lack of time and personnel to research new security threats, as the main obstacles facing the implementation of their IT security roadmap, according to a new report.

We don't know if President Trump knows that Samsung has "The Wall", now available in its most anticipated large format Micro LED panel technology, but it is Samsung's latest digital display innovation!.

A small but influential group including some of the world’s leading thinkers in artificial intelligence and machine learning are coming together in Townsville in north Queensland at the beginning of September to address what is said to be one of the biggest advances in software engineering in recent decades.

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