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Tue, 19th Aug 2025

Cyber attack exposes details of more than 200,000 iinet customers

A list of about 280,000 active email addresses and roughly 20,000 active landline phone numbers have been extracted from iiNet's order management system.

Source: ABC News

iiNet suffers cyber incident in order management system breach

iiNet’s order management system has been breached by an unknown third party, with both current and historical customers affected.

Source: ARN

NZ authorities' warning over Aussie's controversial 'ethical' internet

New Zealand's financial watchdog has issued a warning about an embattled internet scheme founded by an Australian with a colourful past.

Source: ABC News

Telstra tapped for rural and remote AusPost Starlink rollout

Telstra has partnered with Australia Post to roll out SpaceX’s Starlink-powered satellite services to 270 post offices in rural remote locations nation-wide.

Source: ARN

Mon, 18th Aug 2025

TPG Telecom reveals iiNet order management system breached

TPG Telecom has revealed that iiNet’s order management system was breached by an unknown attacker who abused legitimate credentials to gain access.

Source: iTnews Australia

Google faces $55m fine over Telstra, Optus search deals

Google is facing Federal Court proceedings and a $55 million fine over historical agreements struck with Telstra and Optus to put Google Search on Android phones sold by the telcos.

Source: iTnews Australia

Wed, 13th Aug 2025

Is Perplexity’s $34 billion offer to buy Chrome real or a marketing stunt?

AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion.

Source: Computerworld

Breaking: Telstra outage wipes out telecommunication in southern NSW

The issue is affecting about 100 base stations and thousands of customers.

Source: ABC News

Tue, 12th Aug 2025

NBN Co to reach 10 million premises with top tier by end 2025

Australian government owned broadband wholesaler NBN Co says it will enable more than 10 million fixed line premises to access its top speed tier by the end of 2025.

Source: iTWire

Apple, Google lose out to Fortnite developer in landmark ruling

The judgment could reshape digital app stores and also lead to one of the largest class action payouts in Australian history.

Source: SMH

NBN Co weaves AI and automation into its operational "fabric"

NBN Co is embedding AI and automation “into the fabric of [its] operations”, with tools already live for design, support and knowledge access, and spending in the tens of millions.

Source: iTnews Australia

Sun, 10th Aug 2025

Australian businesses leverage 5G to unlock their full potential

Misconceptions around the cost of deploying and maintaining 5G Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are stopping Australian businesses from embracing 5G to power disruptive technologies and drive innovation.

Source: iTnews Australia

Fri, 08th Aug 2025

The NBN is getting its biggest upgrade ever. Most people have no idea

Fairly or not, Australia’s NBN has long been the butt of jokes, ranking below Nicaragua and Venezuela for download speeds. That’s about to change.

Source: SMH

Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach

The telco is facing Federal Court action over a cyberattack that affected some 10 million Australians.

Source: SMH

Optus to answer privacy court case stemming from 2022 data breach

Optus is set to face a privacy lawsuit stemming from its 2022 data breach, with Federal Court proceedings filed by the Australian Information Commissioner.

Source: iTnews Australia

Tue, 05th Aug 2025

AI crawlers vs. web defenses: Cloudflare-Perplexity fight reveals cracks in internet trust

A public war of words has erupted between cloud infrastructure leader Cloudflare and AI search company Perplexity, with both sides making serious allegations about each other’s technical competence in a dispute that industry analysts say exposes fundamental flaws in how enterprises protect content from AI data collection.

Source: Computerworld

Cloudflare and Perplexity slug it out over alleged AI bot block evasion

Is it deceptive, standards-violating content scraping or a security and internet infrastructure company on a crusade against artificial intelligence startups?

Source: iTnews Australia

NBN Co snubs Musk, inks satellite deal with Bezos’ Amazon

The US tech giant will provide high-speed broadband to hundreds of thousands of Australian users from next year.

Source: SMH