Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has called on consumers, businesses and interested stakeholders to provide submissions about data broker services in Australia, as part of its five-year digital platform services inquiry.



Security vendor Bitdefender has published a report lifting the lid on dark web marketplaces including the types of products and services offered and the asking prices asked for stolen consumer credentials.

Cloud assets are the most attacked targets in New Zealand, the global security vendor Thales claims, adding that 67% of businesses in the country suffered a data breach in their cloud environments last year.

Global automobile giant Toyota has announced specifications for a new solid-state battery which has a range of 745 miles (nearly 1200km) and charges in just 10 minutes.

The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution opines iTWire's open source commentator.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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