The first report from the ACCC's broadband monitoring programme shows that NBN services from iiNet, Optus, Telstra and TPG are achieving between 80% and a little over 90% of the maximum plan speeds during the busy evening period.

A bid by accounting software firm MYOB to acquire another similar company. Reckon’s Accountants Group, could lead to a lessening of competition in this sector, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says.

The Basslink Interconnector, the undersea data and telecommunications undersea cable that connects Tasmania, has been hit by an outage after routine maintenance was begun on 24 March. The Tasmanian Government already has a $122 million claim against Basslink for a long term outage last year.

The team behind the open source content management system Drupal have released patches for what is said to be a highly critical vulnerability in versions 7 and 8 of the software that can be exploited remotely.

Former Washington Post employee Brian Krebs, who runs a site claimed to be dedicated to security issues, has come under fire from users of a German image board pr0gramm.com after he revealed details about several admins and moderators in an article which claimed to identify who was behind the cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive. This is known as doxxing.

Uber is set to launch its uberPOOL ride sharing system in Australia, following its introduction in other global markets in August 2014.

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