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Revenue software provider Clari has appointed Abdul Javed to the role of APAC sales vice president.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has appointed Les Williamson to the role of ANZ managing director.

Researchers from Check Point Research, part of the Israeli firm Check Point, have released barebones details about remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in a media codec used by Android phones that are built atop SoCs from Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has appointed Leo Lynch to the new role of ANZ head of channels, and John Marshall to the role of ANZ head of distribution.

Cloud connectivity specialist Kong has appointed Juliette Rizkallah to the newly created role of chief marketing officer.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has launched its Young Professionals Programme in Asia Pacific that aims to attract 100 adults with less than five years of work experience who are interested in a career in cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity company Tesserent has appointed Hamish Soper to the role of senior partner for New Zealand.

Internet CDN provider Fastly has admitted that last night's outage was due to a configuration error.

Cloud-native network detection and response provider ExtraHop has appointed Keith Symons to the role of regional sales manager.

Israel-based security firm Check Point Software has decided to invest in local cloud facilities in Australia so that it can meet data residency and compliance requirements for its local clients.

A client-side vulnerability in the Google Play Core Library, patched by the company in April, is still present in many Android apps because developers are yet to include the patch into these apps.

Researchers from Israel-based security shop Check Point say they have traced the wallet in which bitcoin paid for ransoms extorted by the latest ransomware, Pay2Key, is located and found an Iranian company at the end of the chain.

The number of malicious domains which are similar to that of retail giant Amazon has risen by 28% in the run-up to the firm's Prime Day on 13 October, the Israeli security firm Check Point has warned.

With less than six weeks to go for the US presidential election, it is not surprising that the American media is full of tales about Russian hacking, election interference and likely scenarios where some foreign country meddles in the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Israeli security company Check Point has discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the popular OkCupid dating app, researchers Alon Boxiner and Eran Vaknin say.

Malicious attackers are concealing phishing attacks on Google's Cloud Services, researchers at the Israeli security firm Check Point have warned, adding that this was being done by uploading a PDF to Google Drive that included a phishing page.

The Windows DNS Server, Microsoft's implementation of the domain name resolution software, has a seven-year-old bug which is wormable and can be triggered by a malicious DNS response, the Israeli security firm Check Point has found.

Tel Aviv-based security firm Check Point has revealed details of a new variant of the Joker Dropper and Premium Dialer spyware in the Google Play Store, adding that the malware was found to be hiding in legitimate applications.

Security outfit Check Point has found a number of vulnerabilities in Apache Guacamole, popular infrastructure that is used for remote work by more than 10 million organisations or people.

The global cyber security market grew by 9.7% for the first quarter of 2020 year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, but adds that this trend is unlikely to continue for the remainder of the year as IT budgets come under increasing pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic.