Around 42,000 customers will be compensated after an ACCC investigation found that some nbn users on Telstra 100 Mbps, 50 Mbps and even 25 Mbps plans were unable to receive the promised speeds. [ + ]

Ransomware accounted for well over half of all cyber threats in Australia during the past six months as attacks on both Windows and other platforms increased, a SophosLabs report indicates. [ + ]

Cybercriminals continue to hijack trusted brands in email-based phishing attacks, with scam campaigns mimicking Netflix, Office 365 and Telstra all emerging in the past few weeks. [ + ]

A Sydney 'visiting entrepreneur' start-up program will provide one-on-one mentoring for local start-up organisations. [ + ]

While Australia's total technology spending is on track to grow 2.6% in 2018, this will put the market behind the expected global spending growth rate of 4.3%, according to Gartner's latest forecast. [ + ]

A government contractor inadvertently left the personal information of thousands of public servants and private sector workers exposed in a misconfigured publicly accessible AWS cloud storage bucket. [ + ]

Becoming a master salesperson is the way to cut through the solutions glut, find the right path for your organisation and advance your IT career. [ + ]

Responding to growing customer complaints over the quality of nbn services, the ACCC has launched a public inquiry into service standards at the wholesale level. [ + ]

Digital signature and transaction management company DocuSign will add to its presence in Australia by opening an Azure-based data centre built to the government's classified data handling standards. [ + ]

A survey of CIOs in 11 major global markets found that Australian CIOs are significantly more likely to be adopting machine learning than their global peers. [ + ]

Technology capable of achieving speeds of up to 1 Gbps over existing copper wiring will be deployed on the nbn starting next year, nbn co has announced. [ + ]

The ACCC has identified a range of measures for improving mobile coverage in the bush, but will stop short of requiring mobile operators to provide access to their infrastructure on request. [ + ]

The PM has attempted to shift the blame to Labor, asserting that setting up nbn co in the first place was a costly mistake. [ + ]

The federal government has announced a review of the management of the .au domain, the first such review for 16 years. [ + ]

A newly discovered flaw in the WPA2 encryption protocol used in all modern protected Wi-Fi networks could leave every connected device vulnerable to attack. [ + ]