IBM has laid the blame on Nextgen Networks, and, through it, Vocus Communications, for the collapse of the census website on 9 August, claiming that its instructions to cut off overseas access when a distributed denial of service attack took place were not implemented.

Vocus Communications has hit back at IBM's claims that it was complicit in the 2016 census debacle, saying that the site went down because IBM employees incorrectly identified normal data traffic as data exfiltration and manually turned off their Internet gateway routers.

Nextgen Networks has hit back at IBM's claims that it was to blame for the census stuff-up, saying that its offer of protection against distributed denial of service attacks was rejected.

NBN Co Chief Network & Operations Officer JB Rousselot has told the Broadband World Forum in London that the company needs to move faster in rolling out the broadband network and activating premises.

An NSA contractor will be charged with violating the US Espionage Act on Friday US time, with federal prosecutors in Baltimore saying he carried away "an astonishing quantity" of classified digital and other data over 20 years.

The Information Technology Contract & Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has merged with the Association of Professional Staffing Companies Global (APSCo Global) into a new organisation - APSCo Australia.

Some owners of faulty Samsung Galaxy Note7s are furious that the South Korean electronics giant has refused to cover the costs of fire damage, caused when their devices combusted.

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