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COMPANY PRODUCT NEWS: Acronis, a global leader in  cybersecurity   and  data protection, is pleased to announce that its flagship product, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, is reverting to its original name, Acronis True Image, with the new version release. Users across the globe can now experience the latest release of Acronis True Image, featuring enhanced performance and cybersecurity capabilities to meet today’s cybersecurity challenges.

I looked forward to trying Microsoft's new Copilot+ AI PC to see the goodness and seamlessness of its AI smarts, only to find, well, it's disappointingly dumb on the first try out of the box. Fortunately, with effort, including dealing with a lying AI, you can pull through.

The Victoria Racing Club has been hit by ransomware, with the Medusa group claiming credit for gaining access to the organisation's network on 13 June.

The AI revolution is here, and ASUS has ushered in a new era of Copilot+ PCs featuring advanced AI capability with 45+ TOPS NPU AI engines, across its ProArt, ZenBook, and Vivobook portfolios.

On 3 May, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella issued a long statement, saying in effect that security would be the most important thing for the company from now on.

Microsoft will face an anti-trust probe by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, over claims that it is preventing rivals of its video-conferencing app Teams from competing.

Three days after holding out the lure of releasing new details about the LockBit ransomware gang, a team of American, British and European cyber specialists have unmasked the alleged administrator and developer of the gang: Russian citizen Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

Secure document storage and records lifecycle solutions provider ZircoDATA has been hit by the Black Basta ransomware gang, with the company saying it had noticed unauthorised access of its servers on 28 February.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move 30,000 local government PCs from Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post from the Document Foundation, the organisation that oversees the development of LibreOffice.

Microsoft has released fixes for vulnerabilities detailed in 73 CVEs, including two zero-days being exploited in the wild on Patch Tuesday.

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Norwegian firm Vivaldi, which produces a browser of the same name, has released feature-packed end-of-year versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Microsoft has patched 34 vulnerabilities in its final Patch Tuesday release for the year, including one zero-day flaw and three critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited remotely.

Microsoft has issued patches for 57 CVEs on Patch Tuesday this month, three of which are rated critical and 54 rated important.

Intel Core Ultra processors – code named Meteor Lake – will be launched on 14 December 2023, "ushering in a new age of the AI PC," according to CEO Pat Gelsinger.

In what can only be described as poor-quality spin, the US Government"s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has made much of the fact that former hacker Mudge will be joining the agency in a part-time capacity. [The word hacker is used here in its original meaning: someone who plays around with code.]

Three clients of IT services firm Core Desktop appear to be the latest Australian victims of the the Alphv ransomware group.

Cisco's adaptive security SSL VPN appliances have been under increased attacks for nearly six months, the security firm Rapid7 says, adding that its staff have observed both credential stuffing and targeted brute-force attacks.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, now says attackers who claimed they had breached its network have provided evidence of the breach.