Broadband News
Sat, 24th Oct 2026
How a data centre united Australia's gaming community
After years of playing on distant worlds, Australian gamers of the popular Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV discovered a new home. Now that community has welcomed the game developers Down Under.
Source: ABC News
Fri, 23rd Oct 2026
Meta hit with $25 billion fine for illegally sharing user data
A judge in New Mexico has fined Meta $25 billion for its flouting of data privacy laws between 2010 and 2021, including its controversial passing of data to Cambridge Analytica.
Source: Computerworld
PHP2Shell: the 14-year-old bugs that pulled cyber.gov.au and government sites worldwide offline
Australia's own cyber security agency took its website offline this week. So did government sites in France, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands, along with Wikipedia systems, 4chan, Something Awful and the Port of Rotterdam.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 22nd Oct 2026
Swoop continues to divest with $4.5M Sydney fibre sale
Swoop has maintained its divestment strategy with an agreement to sell its Sydney-based fibre assets to Xenith IG Australia Holdings for around $4.5 million.
Source: ARN
Meta sued in Australian class action
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an Australian court against Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram that alleges the social media platforms exposed children to harmful content and kept them addicted through algorithms.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 21st Oct 2026
Government scrambles to fix websites after AI discovers flaw could affect 70% of the internet
A report from a cybersecurity firm estimated that the software flaw had existed undetected for more than a decade, but AI tools helped quickly identify a fix for them.
Source: SMH
Two critical PHP flaws put the web on alert as emergency patches arrive
Organisations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that powers much of the internet. The flaws discovered in the PHP scripting language could allow attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE).
Source: ARN
Critical flaws strike PHP as disclosure embargo is broken
The maintainers of the PHP general purpose scripting language are telling users to update their systems with patches for two critical vulnerabilities.
Source: iTnews Australia
Cloudflare warns fixing botched eMudhra certs goes beyond browsers
Cloudflare has warned that customers may need to act on their own servers after weak keys in eight eMudhra intermediate certificates left them open to forgery.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 20th Oct 2026
NextDC’s M3 grid expansion delayed due to ‘community and stakeholder opposition’
Work on NextDC’s Melbourne M3 data centre has been delayed because of electricity network distributor Jemena partially suspending construction work due to “community and stakeholder opposition”.
Source: ARN
Optus chasing "near real-time" data as regulatory pressure looms
Optus has moved to pull information from legacy customer-facing applications stored in an Oracle database faster to help it meet regulatory and compliance obligations.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 19th Oct 2026
SUBCO brings in joint CIO and CISO
SUBCO has appointed Andrew Bacon as its joint chief information officer and chief information security officer.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 16th Oct 2026
Telstra ends Australia's long RCS wait: Android from 16 November, iPhone after December's iOS update
Australia's biggest telco has finally put dates on the calendar. Telstra will start switching on RCS messaging for Android customers from 16 November, with iPhone owners to follow once Apple delivers its December iOS update, and the whole rollout is due to be finished by the end of 2026.
Source: iTWire
Australian gov, media networks reached by Israeli firm’s spy ads
The national nuclear science agency, critical infrastructure operators and Australian government networks were among those reached by online ads that researchers say an Israeli company used to track devices and help plant spyware.
Source: iTnews Australia
Nokia launches flexible 50G/25G/10GPON solution to accelerate AI-ready fiber broadband
Nokia recently announced a new 50G/25G/10G/GPON line card that gives operators the flexibility to evolve their fiber network at their own pace and be ready for the demands of the AI era.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 15th Oct 2026
TPG runs 5G network slicing trial for eftpos payments
TPG Telecom has trialled 5G network slicing at the Royal Adelaide Show, using it to prioritise digital payment processing traffic.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 13th Oct 2026
‘Didn’t foot the bill’: Telstra outage cost the economy half a billion dollars, modelling finds
Households and small businesses carried the cost of Telstra’s July outage, consumer advocates say, as the Senate debates mobile reliability laws this week.
Source: SMH
Wed, 30th Sep 2026
Apple issues urgent iOS patch as it navigates the spyware arms race
If you’ve not done so recently, you should update your Apple systems now as the company continues to fight sophisticated, targeted hacks. The latest patch protects against what the company called “an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.”
Source: Computerworld