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Consulting firm Accenture has appointed Andrew JP Levy to its senior leadership team in a newly created role as Chief Corporate and Government Affairs Officer.

More than 250 regional and national newspaper sites in the US have accessed malicious JavaScript that is being created by an actor known as TA569, the email security firm Proofpoint claims.

The cyber criminals behind the ransomware attack on Italian liqueur manufacturer Campari Group have taken their efforts to publicise the intrusion in a different direction, infiltrating the Facebook page of an entertainment event organiser and posting an ad and news about the attack there.

Email and data security vendor Mimecast has acquired messaging security provider eTorch which operates as MessageControl for an undisclosed sum.

The US Government claims that a number of top Chinese companies, including telecommunications equipment maker Huawei and video surveillance firm Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, Reuters reports.

Verizon has become the first mobile provider in the US to offer users 5G-enabled smartphones on a 5G network, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Facilities owned by American telecommunications giant AT&T in eight US cities are being used by the NSA to monitor billions of emails, phone calls and online chats that pass through US territory.

A billion-dollar electronic health records company in Chicago is struggling to recover from an attack of a variant of the SamSam Windows ransomware.

The entire database of 1.8 million Chicago voters was left open to all and sundry on an Amazon cloud-based storage site which was configured for public access.

Australian ecommerce vendor UltraServe has expanded into the US market, opening an office in Chicago to meet what it says is demand for its SmartStack-powered SAP Hybris deployment and hosting services.

Using current network infrastructure, US cable operator Comcast is trialling DOCSIS 3.1 tech to deliver speeds "up to 1 Gigabit per second" over lines already reaching millions of homes.

Software-based elastic interconnection provider, Megaport, is investing $10 million to build an on-the-ground presence in the North American market as part of its global expansion.

Telstra has launched a new, faster network linking the Australian and Singapore stock exchanges which it says strengthens its offerings for the financial services sector.

Impeached and ousted former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich proved last night on the Celebrity Apprentice you don't need tech savvy to lead a state.