A British website has used speed data from Ookla's Speedtest and global average broadband prices from cable.co.uk and come up with what it says is the best value broadband based on cost per Mbps. On this index, Australia is ranked 66th, with the cost per Mbps being £2.26 (A$4.23).

Open source firm SUSE has completed the process of acquisition by its fourth owner — Swedish growth investor EQT — and says it would now be the largest independent open source company, a status that Red Hat once enjoyed until it was bought by IBM.

Russian security form Group-IB has discovered a JavaScript sniffer which they have dubbed GMO, which was designed to steal the payment data of customers from seven online stores in the UK and the US.

When anything bad happens, politicians always look for the first convenient scapegoat. And in the case of the tragic massacre of Muslims in New Zealand, they have their bete noire right in front of them: social media.

Nearly three years after a leak of NSA exploits by the Shadow Brokers disclosed that the agency keeps knowledge of vulnerabilities to itself, the Australian Signals Directorate has posted a document indicating that it, too, does not disclose all vulnerabilities.

The personal details of more than 800,000 blood donors have leaked online in Singapore, with a vendor, Secur Solutions Group, having left an unsecured database on the Web.

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