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COMPANY NEWS:  Unlocking Web3: How Real-Time Security Can Drive Blockchain Adoption

GUEST INTERVIEW: OKX is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. It also provides Web3 services. Lennix Lai, the Chief Commercial Officer, tells us all about it and why it's launching locally in Australia.

SSL certificates are a lynchpin of the Internet, but if you thought they were boring and routine, think again. With quantum computing becoming a reality DigiCert SVP of product Brian Trzupek explains business and industry need to rise to new challenges.

GUEST RESEARCH: As of October 2023, researchers at Bitdefender Labs have been actively keeping tabs on steam-jacking attacks against high-profile YouTube accounts used to conduct myriad crypto doubling scams.

COMPANY NEWS: Groundbreaking protections detect accessibility malware without impacting real mobile end users

GUEST OPINION: Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are more than mere tech trends, they are revolutionising the complex global financial systems used today by market leaders like JP Morgan, MUFG, Credit Suisse and others.

Based on a recent survey and their own research, Trend Micro has announced that the current cyber risk level has dropped from ‘elevated’ to ‘moderate’ and that five organisations in six expect a successful cyber attack in the coming year.

GUEST OPINION: Faster development of vaccines and green battery technology, as well as deeper analytics and faster trading in the financial markets—these are just some of the benefits that countries in APAC are looking to achieve as they adopt quantum computing.

Australian cryptocurrency business Digital Surge has entered voluntary administration with KordaMentha following its exposure to the FTX fallout.

GUEST RESEARCH: me&u partners with expert friends to unveil future-gazing hospitality report, with meta-mealtimes, satisfied staff and putting the end to hospo-ghosting key to future proofing the industry.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With anti money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism financing (CTF) management a vital part of any financial organisation, and especially so for crypto and digital assets companies, Cabital has appointed Melbourne-based Luke Raven as Senior Money Laundering Reporting Officer to not only work globally, but to work towards Cabital opening officially in Australia.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With anti money laundering (AML) and counter terrorism financing (CTF) management a vital part of any financial organisation, and especially so for crypto and digital assets companies, Cabital has appointed Melbourne-based Luke Raven as Senior Money Laundering Reporting Officer to not only work globally, but to work towards Cabital opening officially in Australia.

Aid for Ukraine - an initiative between the Government of Ukraine, Everstake (a Ukraine-based Web3 company), Solana (a public blockchain platform with smart contract functionality and whose native cryptocurrency is SOL) and the crypto community around the world, has already collected $1.4M in $SOL to date.

Australian billionaire mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest AO has launched criminal action against Facebook over scam cryptocurrency advertisements that used his image, claiming Facebook has breached anti-money laundering laws.

GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.

GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.

There are various cryptocurrency exchanges around the world, some of which have endured scandals and disappeared, but Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot has been in business since 2013, and now has over two million users, with CoinSpot celebrating with its biggest giveaway yet!

The Feitian JuBiter wallet is a radical new product from the hardware security company, already well known for its FIDO2 keys, that provides a highly secure cryptocurrency wallet you can carry around and pair to your devices via Bluetooth.

Billing itself as "crypto without the crazy", Cabital says "Cabital Earn is an innovative new investment opportunity that helps you earn sensible returns from crypto assets without unreasonable risks and costs", and the company has just secured new funding.

With Bitcoin reaching US$50,000 this week, the entire cryptocurrency market has seen impressive growth last year and especially in the last six weeks of 2021 with many investors turning to digital coins as a store of value amid the COVID-19 crisis, but 2020 saw less criminal cryptocurrency theft than in 2019.