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Australian startup Quasar has launched its world first Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities, a fully digital multibeam satellite ground stations.

COMPANY NEWS: As organisations continue to migrate data to the cloud, where and how data is handled is becoming an important consideration. In response to growing demand, WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) is introducing the option for its Cloud Protection for Salesforce customers in Australia and Singapore to select where their data is processed. The trusted, natively integrated solution prevents attacks via files and URLs uploaded to Salesforce Clouds.

A day without the internet in the world would cost US$43 billion with the US and China almost making up half of the sum together, accumulating US$21 billion, according to data presented by Atlas VPN.

The US has tightened its restrictions on exports of semiconductors and equipment associated with them to China.

Australia is the equal fifth most targeted nation in the APAC region between July 2022 and June 2023, when assessing security considerations like nation-state activity, cybercrime, and other cyber-attacks, according to the fourth annual Microsoft Digital Defense report.

Amazon plans to introduce advertisements to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024 in order to churn more content and create more TV shows and movies.

The Freecycle Network, a group of organisations that allows its members to offer re-usable goods to others free, has been hit by a data breach, according to a statement.

Technology analyst firm Gartner has forecast that shipments of electric vehicles for 2023 will be about 15 million, with this figure including both battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

GUEST RESEARCH: On 29 August 2023, US law enforcement announced a multinational operation that disrupted the Qakbot botnet (also known as Qbot) and associated infrastructure. Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers have long maintained active monitoring of the botnet and detected the disruption activity on 25 August.

Victims of the ransomware group Cl0p, attacked using vulnerabilities in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer, now number 730, according to a count kept by the New Zealand-headquartered security firm Emsisoft.

Nokia has claimed it is the first telecommunications vendor to manufacture fibre broadband optical modules in the US to be deployed for the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (Bead) program.

The US has put in place further restrictions on China, aiming to reduce the flow of American investment to firms that it claims could help boost Beijing's armed forces.

A week or so after Australia substantially increased the US military presence in the country, a detailed study claims that American tech firms will play a critical role in addressing Australia’s future tech workforce demand, particularly for experienced workers.

An American semiconductor industry lobby group has urged the government not to impose any more restrictions on the Chinese market until the impact of existing curbs is properly assessed.

Existing restrictions on AI chip sales by US corporations to China will be further tightened, the Wall Street Journal reports, claiming there are rising concerns over the technology being sold to US rivals.

A survey of 501 C-suite to IT professionals in the US, UK and Germany, to gauge industry trends, has found that 88% experienced at least one cloud security incident in the last 12 months.

Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo will close its chip design unit, the news agency Reuters reports, citing tremors in both the global economy and the smartphone sector.

One third of Australian organisations hit with one successful ransomware attack in 2022 were repeat victims and 33% say they were hit twice or more, according to a recently published survey.

Immersive learning solutions provider FLAIM Systems has completed a $6.7 million Series A capital raise cornerstoned by the Victorian Government’s $2 billion investment company Breakthrough Victoria.

The number of venture capital (VC) deals for UK startups has dropped by 38.1% year-on-year while the corresponding funding value has plummeted by a massive 70.1% during the first two months of 2023, according to a new data analyst report.