A suspected Russian intrusion into Microsoft's corporate systems, which was disclosed in January, also affected US federal government systems, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.



The Commerce Commission has today released its first “RealSpeed” report alongside its regular quarterly Measuring Broadband New Zealand (MBNZ) results, which it says provides new insights into broadband performance in Kiwi homes.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

Indian global IT, consulting and business process services company Wipro has appointed Srini Pallia as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, effective immediately.

The Debian GNU/Linux project has begun voting for a leader to head the project for 2024-25. Voting began on 6 April and is expected to wind up on 19 April.

Optus has released its Optus Ultra WiFi 5G modem and it's a real powerhouse. If you want huge speeds, modern security, and wide-reaching Wi-Fi in a simple plug-and-play setup then Optus has the device for you.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire

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