An Australian firm that was hit by the Windows REvil ransomware earlier this month has said that it has dealt with the incident fully and upgraded its defences to prevent any repeat.

The Australian Government has cheerfully forked out $1.2 billion of those green notes to settle a lawsuit in the robodebt case. Is it a good moment to stop and consider whether some ministers should be told, in strict terms, to avoid taking any initiatives that involve technology?

Enterprise software provider VMware has announced that its Sydney PoP for its VMware Carbon Black Cloud is generally available.

The anti-trust suit filed by the US against Google in October is unlikely to make any progress, judging by the kind of people whom US president-elect Joe Biden is taking onboard as part of his transition team and also in technology roles.

Western Australia-based IT services firm NEXION Group has signed a deal with California-based Aryaka which it says will help establish Perth as a pivotal global SD-WAN city and get it ready for widespread adoption of secure cloud solutions nationally.

Object storage technology provider Cloudian has inked a deal with IT infrastructure and professional services company Computer Concepts (CCL) to provide its technology to CCL’s New Zealand customers through the Vault Managed Service, with a particular focus on the government sector.

The Microsoft-owned source code repository GitHub has reinstated the repository for youtube-dl, a popular command-line script that can be used to download videos from YouTube and many other videos from the Internet.