About Sara
Sara Barker
Copywriter and Senior News Editor
Sara lives in a world of words and stories. For more than six years she has been delving deep into the rich world of tech news, content creation, journalism and reviews for Techday. She brings an academic background in information systems, marketing, radio, and journalism to her role. She enjoys casual gaming, cats, and reading.
Former TechDay team member.
Stories by Sara - Page 111
ChinaCache sells off 79% stake in Xin Run data center business
Wed, 8th Mar 2017
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investment
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chinacache
ChinaCache is selling a 79% stake in its Xin Run data center business to three major Chinese players for a price tag of ¥221 million in cash.
Moodle to launch learning analytics software Project Inspire - and it needs your help
Wed, 8th Mar 2017
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data analytics
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martech
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planning
Moodle is about to launch Project Inspire, which aims to collaboratively build learning analytics software that can fit into Moodle sites.
Unit 42 discovers apps compromised by iFrames on Google Play
Tue, 7th Mar 2017
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
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network security
A number of apps appearing on Google Play contained IFrames infections that link to malicious domains in their HTML pages. Unit42 gives details.
Nexusguard launches 'industry first' cloud DDoS mitigation platform
Tue, 7th Mar 2017
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ddos
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juniper networks
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nexusguard
Nexusguard, Juniper Networks and Serro Solutions team up to develop software-defined cloud DDoS mitigation platform.
Singapore readies its national army in war for cybersecurity
Mon, 6th Mar 2017
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cybersecurity
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cyber attacks
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orchestration
Singapore to establish Defence Cyber Organisation to combat growing cyber threats, says Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen.
Bitdefender BOX launches in Japan for smarter home device security
Mon, 6th Mar 2017
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smart home
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bitdefender
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smart appliances
Bitdefender BOX is a solution that allows customers to protect their home networks from malware, hackers, ransomware, phishing & other online threats.
Trustwave exposes backdoor in DblTek devices; vendor issues poor patch & goes silent
Mon, 6th Mar 2017
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uc
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voip
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contact centre
DblTek left vulnerabilities in its IoT devices, tried to hide the vulnerability, issued shoddy patches and cut off all contact with Trustwave.
SMBC data center powers IT platform for extended employee mobility
Mon, 6th Mar 2017
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digital signage
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hyperscale
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dc
The data center powers a new IT system for SMBC, which now enables employees across Asia Pacific to remotely access desktop environments via internet.
Weekly Asia security roundup: China's cybersecurity law, hackers speak out, the MINDEF breach, and Yahoo's CEO
Fri, 3rd Mar 2017
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cybersecurity
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yahoo
A new survey by Consilio found that legal technology professions remain ignorant of China's new cybersecurity law.
Yahoo CEO forgoes annual bonus and gives it to employees in wake of data breach fallout
Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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breach prevention
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cybersecurity
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yahoo
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is foregoing her annual bonus and giving it back to employees after the giant data breach that hit the company in 2014.
Singapore's MINDEF suffers I-net data breach, 850 credentials stolen
Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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breach prevention
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cybersecurity
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data breach
Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has publicly revealed the details of a breach in its I-net system, which happened earlier this month.
AI & robotics severely lacking in cyber protection, new research finds
Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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robots
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supply chain
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cybersecurity
Business, industrial, and home robots are wide open to cyber attacks due to vulnerabilities, warns IOActive research paper.
Palo Alto Networks snaps up LightCyber for automated behaviour analytics prowess
Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
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network security
Palo Alto Networks has paid $105 million for cybersecurity provider LightCyber, so it can fuse automated behavioural analytics into its own platform.
Trend Micro amongst top vendors in NSS Labs Endpoint tests
Thu, 2nd Mar 2017
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malware
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dlp
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cybersecurity
Trend Micro has received one of the highest malware protection scores with no false positives in the NSS Labs Advanced Endpoint Protection Public Test.
Legal tech profession has its head in the sand over China's new cybersecurity law, survey finds
Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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data protection
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data privacy
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cybersecurity
China's new cybersecurity law may have passed three months ago, but 75% of legal technology professionals aren't even familiar with it.
Interview: Bring on the barbecue - how IT & OT must work together to build better security
Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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iot
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partner programmes
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supply chain
At 31c0n, BT's Bryan K Fite emphasised the crucial unity of IT and OT for robust security, likening it to a “big barbecue” of collaboration.
The stats are in: Japanese PC users at risk of attack through old and unpatched software
Tue, 28th Feb 2017
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flexera
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security vulnerabilities
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patching
The average private user has 63 programs on their PC from 21 different vendors. 7% of those are at the end of their life, meaning they're not patched.
CyberArk talks credential privileges, data breach laws and the 'sprint method'
Tue, 28th Feb 2017
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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pam
Cybersecurity company CyberArk is employing hackers to fight against cyber threats and develop innovative security solutions.
Sophos launches new suite for cloud security and IoT management
Tue, 28th Feb 2017
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uc
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
Sophos Mobile 7 is available now for on-site installation and will be available through cloud-based Sophos Central in mid-March 2017.
Cylance is now one of the top 50 companies leading the AI revolution
Mon, 27th Feb 2017
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ai security
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ai
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cylance
AI security pioneers Cylance have been named one of Fortune Magazine's '50 companies leading the AI revolution'.