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WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has landed back in Australia after being freed from jail in the UK, following a court appearance in the US territory of Saipan in the Pacific.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been freed from prison on Monday and left the UK as part of a plea deal, reports say.

Australia's mainstream media groups are trying to pressure the government in order to obtain funding to cover the $70 million that was provided by Facebook in a deal in 2021 and which the social media group has said it will not renew when the deal lapses later this year.

The US will ban the sale of anti-virus products made by Russian vendor Kaspersky to American customers from July onwards, a report says.

Data that is claimed to be from Australian ticketing vendor TEG has been put up for sale on a website, with the poster asking US$30,000 (A$45,032) for the whole lot.

Oppo is launching the next model in its Reno line, with the Reno12 Pro and Reno12 to be offered for sale in Australia from 11 July. Both phones will be available for pre-sale from 27 June.

Attackers who used stolen credentials to purloin the data of companies using the services of storage firm Snowflake are demanding between US$300,000 (A$454,040) and US$5 million from about 10 of the 165 companies compromised, a security firm says.

The Victoria Racing Club has been hit by ransomware, with the Medusa group claiming credit for gaining access to the organisation's network on 13 June.

The AlmaLinux Foundation, which produces the community-owned and governed CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced support for the Raspberry Pi.

Microsoft has patched 49 CVEs in its June 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with this being the second successive month in which less than 60 CVEs were patched.

Security firm Mandiant says attackers have used stolen credentials to steal the data of as many as 165 organisations from storage provider Snowflake.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has dropped legal action against social media site X (formerly Twitter) over the posting of videos of a stabbing in Sydney.

IT ecosystem distributor and solutions aggregator Tech Data has acquired Orca Technology, an independent value-added distributor focused on the IT security marketplace in Australia & New Zealand.

Global smartphone shipments will rise by 4% this year to a total of 1.21 billion units, the technology analyst firm IDC predicts.

Consumer electronics firm Framework will expand its operations to three more countries in June, offering its customisable laptops in Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the general availability of AlmaLinux 8.10, a community-owned open-source alternative to CentOS.

Despite a Federal Court decision that it cannot keep a report by Deloitte into a 2022 cyberattack secret, Singtel Optus appears to be unwilling to commit to publicly releasing the same.

Security outfit Tenable says it has found a critical memory corruption flaw in Fluent Bit's built-in HTTP server that could allow an attacker to carry out a denial of service information leakage or remote code execution.

TPG Telecom's eco-minded brand, felix mobile, says an upgrade to 5G means it will be able to offer faster speeds on its capped data plans with no extra charge.

Singtel Optus has been taken to court by the Australian Media and Communications Authority over the September 2022 attack on its systems that had an impact on nearly nine million customers.