Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson is bracing for a backlash after a court in its home country upheld a ban on the the use of 5G equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies in Swedish networks.

ANALYSIS The Australian Federal Police appears to have provided the best possible argument for not passing federal bills that seek to enhance its powers, following the provision of details about using existing Australian encryption laws to read the encrypted messages of criminal gangs and take them down.

Global security firm Kaspersky has revealed that targeted attacks against a number of companies, which it noticed in April, initially used a vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser and then linked this to two zero-days in the Microsoft Windows 10 kernel.