Australian consumers are reporting having their bank accounts drained by fraudsters and their email inboxes accessed in the latest scam involving theft of mobile numbers, according to the newly published report on fraud from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

Testing of broadband speeds by the ACCC has shown that fibre-to-the-premises and hybrid fibre coaxial connections deliver about 86% to 87% of plan speeds during busy hours — 7pm to 11pm — compared to about 79% for fibre-to-the-node connections.

Telstra-owned video software and services company Ooyala says it will work with the global media industry's business change network, the UK-based Digital Production Partnership (DPP), on its efforts to advance new global news-industry standards for the use of metadata.

Google has released an extension known as Password Checkup for its Chrome browser that will check passwords against a database to see if they have been leaked in third-party data breaches.

Australia's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Independent Reserve, has started offering insurance cover to its clients.

Data centre operator NEXTDC is claiming Australia’s first NABERS 5-star rated data centre with the official certification of its M1 Melbourne facility.

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