Researchers from the security firm Lookout say they have discovered malware families propagated from Pakistan that can infect both Android and iOS devices and are being used to steal information from government officials, diplomats, military personnel and activists.

About 36,000 homes across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth will be declared "ready to connect" via HFC to the national broadband network by the end of June.

Meanwhile, NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, has appointed former Jobs for NSW advocacy director Felicity Ross as its new corporate affairs lead from 18 July.

The US Government has named a suspect in the theft of documents from the CIA, which WikiLeaks released under the name Vault 7 from March last year, but has been unable to file charges against the man even though he has been detained since a week after the first leak.

China hating politicians in the US are up in arms over President Donald Trump's move to ease the seven-year export ban imposed on Chinese telco ZTE, characterising the company as a security threat and insisting they will not take a backward step on legislation putting curbs on the company.

Those who can sometimes be down on Microsoft these days will be surprised to see real innovation from Microsoft continues, this time on the hardware side, with the upcoming and impressively collaborative Surface Hub 2.

The best way for Australia to show that it takes the privacy of its citizens seriously would be for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to levy a hefty fine on Google for having the guts to not only spy on all Android users, but to also use their own data to do so, says Sam Varghese in an incisive oped.

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