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Melbourne-based virtual reality tech developer and immersive learning solutions provider FLAIM Systems has donated a FLAIM Trainer to the State Emergency Services of Ukraine.

Members of Australia's parliament have been advised to carry burner phones when they visit India, Seven's The Nightly website reports.

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.

Ukranian telco operator Lifecell has managed to launch more than 800 new base stations across the country, providing citizens connections, despite being in war with Russia since February 2022.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange is unlikely to be released by the US until the 2024 presidential elections are done. That is the main takeaway from American statements on Saturday, refusing to accede to Australia's timid requests for his freedom.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stepped up the rhetoric over the recently enacted Online News Act, likening the fight with Facebook and Google to defending democracy in Ukraine or during World War II.

Behind the war taking place on the ground, there's a cyber-war being waged by shady hacktivists who are increasing their operations both in Eastern Europe and around the world.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new report Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists.

Gamers across Australia and the world are uniting in support of the children and families impacted by the Ukraine war, in a fundraising first for UNICEF Australia.

Microsoft has warned users of two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited as it issued a total of 80 patches on its monthly Patch Tuesday.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware has released a new advisory about a pro-Russian hacktivist group called Zarya.

With one-year mark of the war in Ukraine fast approaching, the Romanian Red Cross turned to UiPath to aid in humanitarian and human rights catastrophe

COMPANY NEWS UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a leading enterprise automation software company, today announced that it has supported the Romanian Red Cross (RRC) in digitising and automating the reporting of donations collected by the organisation for the benefit of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. The RRC, a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organisation that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education inside Romania.

Yandex, often referred to as Russia's Google, is the country's most prominent Internet company and now wants to move out of the country because of the ongoing Ukrainian invasion.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

The world's arguably richest man Elon Musk wants the US military to pay for the ongoing costs incurred by the Ukraine's use of the Starlink satellite internet service provided by his company SpaceX.

COMPANY NEWS: Vladimir Putin’s military mobilisation order has led to a significant uproar in Russia—from protests in several regions to an estimated 700,000 Russians leaving the country in a little over two weeks. Many Russian citizens, meanwhile, have been trying to avoid the draft by resorting to time-honoured tricks such as hunkering down at relatives’ homes or equipping themselves with fake documents.

COMPANY NEWS: According to new Venafi research, 65% of organisations have changed cyber strategy in response to war in Ukraine.

GUEST RESEARCH: The latest Operational Technology (OT)/IoT security report from Nozomi Networks Labs finds wiper malware, IoT botnet activity, and the Russia/Ukraine war impacted the threat landscape in the first half of 2022.

Global smartphone sales fell below 100 million units in May, the second time this happened since it first occurred after the pandemic broke, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research claims.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced that Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) is using Radware's Cloud DDoS Protection and Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) Services as pro-bono technical assistance to increase its cyber defences in the face of aggressive and persistent cyber attacks. Ukraine's SSSCIP is tasked with protecting state information resources.