Users shun fixed line, flock to 3G
Adoption and use of 3G networks and wireless broadband exploded last year as consumers flocked to grab the latest Internet-ready mobile, according to new research.
Darren Pauli | 13 Jan | Read more
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Biometrics sweep NSW gaols
The NSW Department of Corrective Services will implement mandatory iris scanning and fingerprinting across its 32 prisons to help verify visitor identities.
Darren Pauli | 17 Jun | Read more
Busted: the NSW Police crime fighting toolkit
NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems.
Darren Pauli | 02 Jun | Read more
Defence trials sneaky cameras
The Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) is running facial recognition trials which will underpin biometric initiatives across the Department of Defence, Immigration and new smartcard driver's licences.
Darren Pauli | 28 May | Read more
Aussie govt considers quantum leap in secure comms
Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution.
Darren Pauli | 03 Mar | Read more
Security networks send spammers underground
Botnets will employ more obfuscated control techniques including the use of peer-to-peer networks during 2009, according to security researchers, following the [[artid:556517764|McColo datacentre take-down|new]] last year.
Darren Pauli | 28 Jan | Read more
Clumsy staff more dangerous than hackers: survey
Up to 79 percent of the 156 Australian IT managers and C-level executives responding to a recent survey have suffered IT data breaches.
Darren Pauli | 23 Oct | Read more
Google blacklists ATUG Web site
Hackers may have hit the Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) Web site, according to Google which has placed security threat warnings across all pages displayed in searches.
Darren Pauli | 07 Oct | Read more
AMP, Commonwealth Bank choose homegrown security
Wealth management firm AMP has rejected established auditing and security frameworks for a procedure list hand-drawn by its own head of security.
Darren Pauli | 12 Sep | Read more
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt
A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world.
Darren Pauli | 05 Sep | Read more
Apple gets bruised in vulnerability report
Apple has taken the place of Microsoft for disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor, according to an IBM security report.
Darren Pauli | 05 Aug | Read more
Small ISPs at risk to DNS flaw
Customers of small Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may be at risk of online fraud, following the industry's lax response to securing against the recently discovered Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning flaw.
Darren Pauli | 01 Aug | Read more
Critics claim govt's porn filtering will fail
A glowing report on the government's national Internet content filtering scheme has again outraged telecommunications providers and privacy advocates who declared the results biased and worthless.
Darren Pauli | 29 Jul | Read more
AG launches review into national e-security
A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda.
Darren Pauli | 07 Jul | Read more
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site
Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages.
Darren Pauli | 02 Jul | Read more