South Korean smartphone giant Samsung will launch a series of budget smartphone models in India before it releases them in other countries, in a bid to beat back the challenge from Chinese vendors.

Ex-NSA employees are the most likely sources for a yarn that ran in the American website Politico last week, claiming that researchers from Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab had tipped off the NSA that one of its employees, Harold Martin, could be worth investigating, after he allegedly sent Twitter messages to them.

Australia’s second largest telco, the Singtel-owned Optus, says it has taken another significant step towards its commercial launch of 5G by making a 5G data call on 60 MHz using 3.5 GHz spectrum.

Public cloud IT infrastructure spending in a quarter surpassed traditional IT infrastructure revenues for the first time in 2018, the IT market intelligence firm IDC says.

Google's much-vaunted artificial intelligence has been shown up as flaky again, judging by the fact that it recently flagged an article in iTWire for what it said was a violation of its AdSense policy and then quickly backtracked.

The threat actor TA505 has started to distribute a new Windows backdoor named ServHelper by security firm Proofpoint. The company claims there are two variants, one directed at remote desktop functions and the second which is primarily a downloader for a remote access trojan known as FlawedGrace.

Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group has released a free decryption tool for recovering files that have been encrypted by the PyLocky Windows ransomware, a family of malware written in Python and masquerading as a variant of the Locky ransomware.

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