Vodafone's government and corporate customers in New Zealand will be able to use new security management services after the company's New Zealand branch signed a deal with Telstra to make these available.

Researchers from the Danish security outfit CSIS Services have poked fun at the operations of a Germany-based spyware unit known as Wolf Research, after they found about 20GB of data from the company that revealed poor coding, dubious sales practices and numerous details about the company's operations.

The Australian Labor Party has questioned the value apportioned to the NBN Co by its chairman Ziggy Switkowski, who said during a Senate Estimates hearing that the company could fetch a price of $50 billion if it was sold post-2020.

Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels has claimed an article by CNBC about problems faced by the company's website on Prime Day, its made-up holiday in July meant to boost sales, had nothing to do with Amazon Web Services and the new database that Amazon is using. He described it as "silly and misleading".

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific may fall afoul of European authorities after taking six months to disclose that the personal data of 9.4 million people could have leaked.

Complaints about services delivered by Australia’s biggest telcos Telstra, Optus and Vodafone continued to fall over the three months to the end of September, according to the latest Complaints in Context report from the Communications Alliance.

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