In a statement that is as clear as mud, the US Department of Commerce says it will issue licences to Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies for buying American products "where there is no threat to US national security".

A state-sponsored group compromised the organisation that manages the top-level domains for Greece — .gr and .el — in April this year, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group claims, adding that those behind it appeared to be a group that they had earlier named Sea Turtle.

Vocus Group subsidiary Dodo Services has agreed to pay back up to $360,000 to 16,000 customers for claiming that its entry-level NBN broadband plans were "perfect for streaming".

Mobile services have fared best with a low rate of consumer complaints in stark contrast to voice only services delivered by telcos over the NBN which had the highest rate of complaints over a six month period last year, according to a new report by the ACMA.

Mozilla, the developers of the Firefox browser, has knocked back a request from Abu Dhabi-based security outfit DarkMatter to have certificates it issues be automatically accepted as genuine.

The video conferencing provider Zoom Video Communications has said it will push out a patch to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Mac client that could expose a live webcam feed to an attacker. The application Ringcentral is also affected by the same flaw.

Digital risk protection vendor Digital Shadows has completed a $10 million capital raising round with the funds to be used scale up plans for the delivery of its SearchLight service.

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