The advertising restrictions placed on the use of the term congestion-free by Internet service provider Aussie Broadband by the competition watchdog have been questioned by the head of a small ISP in Tasmania, who has asked why the ACCC does not also object to the use of the term "unlimited" in broadband advertisements.

US-based defence contractor L3 Intelligence has acquired two Australian information security firms, Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs, for a total sum of $313 million.

Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group says it has discovered similar vulnerabilities in the NordVPN and ProtonVPN clients for Windows, which allow an ordinary user to run commands as an administrator.

A 2015 order from the French privacy regulator, CNIL, to Google, telling the search engine company to extend the European Union's so-called "right to be forgotten" to all its websites around the globe will be appealed by Google on Tuesday.

A Linux developer who works for the biggest open source vendor Red Hat has questioned why security holes in older Linux kernels — those that are listed as having long-term support — are being quietly patched by senior kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is more or less deputy to Linux creator Linus Torvalds, without issuing the standard CVE advisories.

Today is the last day on which Australians can submit their statements of support or opposition to the proposed Assistance and Access bill which seeks to force people or organisations to allow access to encrypted communications. The public consultation period has been a thinly disguised a farce.

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