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• NZ Privacy Commissioner presses for mandatory breach notification

  Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says the infamous hack of up to 500 million Yahoo email accounts demonstrates the importance of New Zealand introducing mandatory breach notification.

• Service Stream to ditch NBN greenfields work

  Network services company Service Stream will not seek more greenfields NBN work after its existing contract expires at the end of November.

• Router problem behind Vodafone network outage

  A problem with a router disrupted 4G services on Vodafone’s mobile network yesterday evening.

• IoT privacy shortcomings scrutinised

  Scrutiny of a number of Internet of Things devices and services used by Australians reveal shortcomings when it comes to privacy protections.

• Vint Cerf's dream do-over: 2 ways he'd make the internet different

  Vint Cerf is considered a father of the internet, but that doesn't mean there aren't things he would do differently if given a fresh chance to create it all over again.

• Here's what you should know, and do, about the Yahoo breach

  Yahoo's announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale -- it's the largest data breach ever -- and the potential security implications for users.

• 5 tech trends that have Turing Award winners worried

  Technology has considerable potential to make the world better, but those benefits are far from guaranteed. Plenty of downsides can pop up along the way, and some of them have Turing Award winners especially worried.

• Companies say IoT matters but don't agree how to secure it

  A majority of enterprises say the internet of things is strategic to their business, but most still take a piecemeal approach to IoT security. Those results from a global IDC survey conducted in July and August reveal both the promise and the growing pains of IoT.

• Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices

  Securing the internet of things should become a major priority now that an army of compromised devices – perhaps 1 million strong - has swamped one of the industry’s top DDoS protection services.

• ABS says it accepted IBM assurances on Census DDoS protection

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics says it accepted assurances from IBM that measures to deal with denial of service attacks targeting the 2016 Census were adequate.