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G'day and welcome to the 2021 Australian PC Awards!

As we've done for the past four years, Future Australia is putting together a special awards event in 2021 that seeks to recognise and celebrate the most important products, technologies and companies operating in the PC space over the last 12 (or so) months – January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 to be exact.

The APCAs have traditionally included a gala dinner for all the finalists (and some special guests!) but due to the current difficulties and safety considerations around hosting large events, this year we're doing something completely different, with the Awards rolling out in a series of live-streamed events at the end of June.

We'll be providing more information about the live streams (and where to watch them) over the next few weeks, but before then we're inviting Aussie readers of TechRadar, PC Gamer, GamesRadar+, APC, TechLife and PC PowerPlay to have their say in the Australian PC Awards' publicly voted category – the highly coveted Gold Award for Best PC Company.

For voting and answering a simple question about tech in 2020, you'll go in the running to win one of three nifty prize bundles, each valued at AU$277, which includes the following goodies:

12-issue subscription to APC magazine valued @ AU$79
12-issue subscription to TechLife magazine valued @ AU$79
1-year (7 issue) subscription to PC PowerPlay magazine valued @ AU$69
1 x exclusive PC PowerPlay T-shirt valued @ AU$25
1 x exclusive APC baseball cap valued @ AU$25

For more information on how to vote, head to our list of all APCA 2021 finalists, or simply click this big button right here to skip straight to the voting page:

We'll be announcing the prize-pack winners following the announcement of the Gold Award itself in late June!

Please note that the competition is open to Australian residents only. For full competition terms and conditions, please click here.

Australian PC Awards 2021 — (Image credit: Future)

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The time has come to look back at all that happened in the world of the PC through 2020, and reward the products and companies that excelled!

It’s the annual Australian PC Awards – and it’s underway right now.

The experts at TechRadar, APC, TechLife, PC Gamer, PC PowerPlay and T3 have combined forces to distill down such a huge year into a tight and very carefully considered group of standouts.

Below, we've collated a list of ripper finalists – PC companies, products and technologies that stand head and shoulders above the crowd. They cover every important area of the PC – both inside and outside the case (and even the case itself!).

Topping it off are our two extra-special awards:

Excellence Award: Presented to the person, product or technology that advanced the PC more than any other in 2020.

Gold Award: For the best overall company operating in the PC space for 2020. This list includes every one of the finalists across all the other categories – and it is for you to decide which will win!

Cast your vote, have your opinion heard – and by doing so you'll also be in the running for a special Future Australia prize pack, including subscriptions to APC, TechLife and PC PowerPlay!

Voting closes on Monday, May 17 at 11:59pm AEST. For full competition Ts & Cs you can click right here.

All of the winners will be revealed in a very special video presentation that will be streamed across three exciting episodes, on the evenings of June 23, 24 and 25, 2021. The video presentation can be viewed right here on TechRadar – after you vote, be sure to accept the email prompt and we'll be in touch as we get closer to the event with the full details.

2020 was a remarkable year for many reasons – let’s cap it off with a proper acknowledgement of what shone the brightest in a period where the best of the best rose above the challenges and delivered the PC goodness we all love.

Onto the finalists!

Finalists: Best motherboard maker

Finalists: Best value motherboard

Finalists: Best premium motherboard

Finalists: Best video card maker

Finalists: Best value video card

Finalists: Best premium video card

Finalists: Best value CPU

Finalists: Best premium CPU

Finalists: Best internal storage maker

Finalists: Best external storage maker

Finalists: Best SOHO or home NAS

Finalists: Best value laptop or 2-in-1

Finalists: Best premium laptop or 2-in-1

Finalists: Best gaming laptop

Finalists: Best desktop PC builder

Finalists: Best memory maker

Finalists: Best cooling product

Finalists: Best monitor

Finalists: Best keyboard

Finalists: Best mouse

Finalists: Best gaming headset

Finalists: Best PC case

Finalists: Best router

Finalists: Best reseller

Finalists: Excellence Award

For the person, product or technology that advanced the PC more than any other in 2020.

Finalists: Gold Award

For this very special Gold Award we turn to you to decide! Cast your vote here for the company that impressed you the most in 2019!

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Security researchers from CyberNews have discovered more than 29,000 unsecured databases worldwide that are exposing over 19 petabytes (19,000 TB) of data online.

To conduct its latest investigation, the news outlet used a specialized search engine capable of scanning for open Hadoop, MongoDB and Elasticsearch databases. It's worth noting though that CyberNews didn't count any databases with default credentials enabled, so the number of unprotected databases online is actually significantly higher.

Of the databases discovered in CyberNews' search, Hadoop instances exposed the most data with almost 19PB easily accessible to cybercriminals or anyone for that matter followed by Elasticsearch with 143.8TB and MongoDB with just 6.5TB. However, when it comes to the number of exposed databases, Elasticsearch took the top spot with 19,814 instances without any kind of authentication in place.

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In terms of which countries have the most exposed databases, China tops the list with 12,943 instances overall while the US comes in second with 4,512 instances followed by Germany with just 1,479 unprotected instances.

Exposed databases

Last year an unknown group of cybercriminals launched a series of attacks on unsecured databases without any explanation or even a ransom demand. These so-called 'meow attacks' wiped all of the data stored on these servers and left database owners with just an empty folder filled with files named 'meow'.

Surprisingly during its recent investigation, CyberNews found 59 databases that were still not protected even after they were hit by meow attacks last year. Security researcher at the news outlet Mantas Sasnauskas provided further insight on the importance of properly securing online databases in a new report, saying:

“Anyone can look for these unprotected clusters by using IoT search engines to effortlessly identify those that don’t have authentication enabled and exploit them by stealing the data, holding them ransom, or, as was the case with the ‘Meow’ attack, simply destroy valuable information for fun, wiping billions of records and crippling both business and personal projects in the process.”

Database owners can prevent their data from being stolen by enabling authentication, enabling encryption or using a VPN and by keeping their database software up to date. Once authentication is enabled, they should also protect their database with a complex and unique password which can be done by either using a password generator or a password manager.

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