The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has today begun hearing evidence from critical industries and government agencies on proposed new laws to protect Australia’s infrastructure from sophisticated cyber attacks.

Local media in Shenzhen are reporting that Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) was forced to halt production at its factories the day after the city imposed a lockdown in an effort to curb a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Health technology companies are calling for fairer procurement processes and improved funding, according to a report by the Medical Software Industry Association.

A new survey conducted by conducted by Opinium Research for Veritas Technologies has found that a large majority of Kubernetes environments are unprotected against ransomware – even though more than half of the respondents say they have already experienced such an attack.

Data protection provider Arcserve has appointed David Lenz to the role of Asia Pacific vice president.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer realme is being touted as the "fastest-growing major 5G grand globally" in the last quarter of 2021, but its shipments for the quarter are very small, coming in at about 5.3 million units.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire