The key ingredients for smart city success

Smart cities are the future of inner-city living. Attracting new citizens and investment won’t just come down to good schools, affordable property and excellent facilities. In the future, the digital experience and the innovative services a municipality can offer will be just as crucial. By using a cutting-edge network of sensors, a smart city can…

IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT landscape, respectively, the alliance said. The alliance, formed at Hannover Messe…

Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs

Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a software supply chain attack. The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software’s update mechanism and used it to drop malware on user computers. The breach is said to…