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• Telco complaints rise, but ombudsman sees progress

  Consumer and small business complaints about phone and Internet services lodged with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman grew 6.2 per cent in FY18.

• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, has passed away at the age of 65, his family said.

• NBN to halve Telstra’s profit, chair says

  When the roll out of the NBN is completed, expected at the end of 2020, it “will have reduced Telstra’s net profit after tax by close to a half,” Telstra chairperson John Mullen said today in remarks prepared for the telco’s AGM. “Not a few per cent, half,” Mullen said.

• War on piracy expands to subtitle downloads

  A group of entertainment companies is preparing to argue that Australian ISPs should block four websites that provide downloadable subtitle files.

• What is enterprise risk management? How to put cybersecurity threats into a business context

  Cybersecurity risks are now a key part of the ERM process. Here’s how infosec professionals should talk about cybersecurity risk and assess its impact.

• WebAssembly, JavaScript links get faster in Firefox

  The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls

• Government seeks mobile coverage boost for ‘public interest’ locations

  The government has officially launched the fourth round of its Mobile Black Spot Program.

• Government encryption bill: Cisco, Mozilla join chorus of tech critics

  Networking vendor Cisco has joined a lengthening list of tech sector critics of a bill that the government says is necessary to help police and security agencies counteract the use of encrypted communications channels.

• Security: ‘Sticky note’ vulnerability still bringing organisations undone

  Call it the sticky-note hole: As information security vulnerabilities go, it is low tech but profoundly dangerous nonetheless.

• Cyber security centres warn of RATs, ’katz

  The Australian Cyber Security Centre has worked with its equivalents in Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the United States to produce a report highlighting countermeasures for some of the most common threats faced by enterprises and governments.

• How 2400 sensors and machine learning models keep Sydney Harbour Bridge spanning the decades

  The crew that maintains the Sydney Harbour Bridge speaks about the 52,800 tonne steel structure with deep affection.

• ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch

  The KSK rollover involved generating a new cryptographic public and private key pair and distributing the new public component to parties who operate validating resolvers, according to ICANN. Such resolvers run software that converts typical addresses like networkworld.com into IP network addresses.

• Apple pushes back against ‘dangerously ambiguous’ encryption bill

  Apple has described as “dangerously ambiguous with respect to encryption and security” the federal government’s surveillance bill.

• Home Affairs rejects calls for additional safeguards in ‘spyware’ law

  Home Affairs has rejected calls to boost judicial oversight of the government's new surveillance bill.

• Google quizzed over delay in disclosing vulnerability

  Three influential Republican U.S. senators has asked Google to explain why it delayed disclosing vulnerabilities with its Google+ social network.