United Nations and Salesforce partner to tackle gender equality and other top stories.

• United Nations and Salesforce partner to tackle gender equality

  

  UN Women fundraising and deputy executive director Janelle Weissman (L) with Salesforce Asia Pacific vice president of marketing, Wendy Johnstone and Salesforce staff. The two organisations have partnered to develop a set of corporate principles. Paul Jeffers The United Nations' body which focuses on gender equality and the empowerment of women will partner with cloud computing giant Salesforce for Australia's version of its global HeForShe cam..

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• Aston Martin Vulcan lands in New Zealand

  

  Australians can glance over the fence at our New Zealand neighbours with driveway envy, as it now boasts the single Aston Martin Vulcan delivered in the Southern Hemisphere. Aston’s most exclusive vehicle cost $4.2 million NZD delivered, or about $3.8m in our currency, and is one of only 24 built worldwide. The Vulcan was purchased by Tony Quinn, owner of the Highlands Motorsport Park just east of Queenstown, to promote the driving-sports facility and celebrate three years since it opened it..

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• Volkswagen Australia looks to bolster thin SUV stocks with range of new models

  

  Volkswagen Australia admits its coverage of the booming SUV market lags behind key rivals, but is planning to make up lost ground in a hurry. SUV sales are quite literally driving the Australian vehicle market to record growth, up 13.8 per cent and comprising 38 per cent of the market in 2016 — almost the same percentage as passenger vehicles, which are down 8 per cent. But Volkswagen, Australia’s number eight brand by sales, is a little thin in the crossover and SUV department. Alongside th..

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• D-Link adds MU-MIMO and quad-stream to last year's bright red spider router

  

  D-Link today took the lid off the DIR-895L AC5300 tri-band wireless router, a refreshed version of last year's bright red, spider-like DIR-890L. While the DIR-895L shares its unique design with the DIR-895L, it has a couple of extra antennas and all new wireless tech under the hood. MU-MIMO, one of the DIR-895L's callout features, theoretically speaking, allows multiple devices to simultaneously talk to the router, rather than waiting for their "turn". While this can increase network performance..

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• Legal Action In Air As Telstra Inks $1.6bn NBN Deal

  

  Legal Action In Air As Telstra Inks $1.6bn NBN Deal By Computer Daily News | Tuesday | 12/04/2016 Telstra yesterday announced it had signed a $1.6 billion contract with NBN Co to provide services for its hybrid fibre coax (HFC) rollout - and has found itself the subject of serious concerns by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The contract comes on top of the $11 billion deal Telstra struck earlier with NBN Co, allowing NBN to take control of Telstra's cable network, followe..

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• Mercedes AMG S65 Cabriolets to be the Most Expensive Car to go On-Road in September

  

  Mercedes-Benz will hit the roads in Australia by September. The German brand has just updated its S-Class cabriolets, with Mercedes AMG S65 Cabriolets. The German Automobile company, Mercedes-Benz had launched the AMG S65 Cabriolet priced at ...

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• Experts crack Petya ransomware, enable hard drive decryption for free

  

  Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals.Petya appeared on researchers' radar last month when criminals distributed it to companies through spam emails that masqueraded as job applications. It stood out from other file-encrypting ransomware programs because it overwrites a hard disk drive's master boot record (MBR), leaving infected computers unable to boot into the o..

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• Symantec Internet Security Threat Report - Australia is a top 10 target

  

  Symantec has today released their 81 page, annual Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Vol. 21 that reveals an organisational shift by cybercriminals - they are establishing professional businesses and adopting corporate best practices in order to increase the efficiency of their attacks against enterprises and consumers.  This new class of professional cybercriminal spans the ecosystem of attackers, extends the reach of enterprise and consumer threats, and fuels the growth of online crime...

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