APF launches New Zealand affiliate
One of Australia’s oldest and most established privacy advocacy bodies has made the leap across the Tasman to open a branch in New Zealand.
Andrew Colley | 11 May | Read more
One of Australia’s oldest and most established privacy advocacy bodies has made the leap across the Tasman to open a branch in New Zealand.
Andrew Colley | 11 May | Read more
The financial sector’s holy grail of end-to-end digitisation of complex mortgage transactions is in sight, according to Tommy Petrogiannis founder and president of digital signature specialist eSignLive. They may just need to tackle it one bit at a time.
Andrew Colley | 31 Mar | Read more
The Internet of Things continues to promise to be one of the biggest challenges facing security professionals with a new global study confirming widespread abuse of the new devices and systems.
Andrew Colley | 01 Mar | Read more
One of Australia’s premier academic cyber security think tanks has cautioned the federal government that its proposed new telecommunications networks security reforms need stronger oversight provisions.
Andrew Colley | 08 Feb | Read more
One of the world’s most active global cyber threat intelligence firms has come out in defence of the Prime Minister’s decision to reveal secret briefings about hacking global activity widely attributed to Russian state-backed actors dating back nearly a decade.
Andrew Colley | 25 Jan | Read more
Yesterday, the federal court handed down its decision on a thorny and controversial legal dispute between Telstra, the federal privacy commissioner and former technology journalist Ben Grubb over... I was about to write “his” metadata, but I can’t. The court has deemed that it’s not his or even about him.
Andrew Colley | 20 Jan | Read more
The bid for greater cooperation between the Australian government and business is continuing with another major technology player declaring its willingness to share intelligence with federal agencies.
Andrew Colley | 02 Jan | Read more
Former communications minister, Stephen Conroy has warned that Australian government technology decision makers need to start preparing for the development of quantum computing.
Andrew Colley | 05 Dec | Read more
Some of the world’s major record labels and music rights holders are persisting with a federal court bid to use new Australian legislation to make telcos block torrent file sharing sites.
Andrew Colley | 09 Nov | Read more
Kevin Mitnick, arguably the world’s most famous hacker, is coming to Australia as part of a conference tour of the region later this month.
Andrew Colley | 09 Nov | Read more
One of Australia’s top communications law think tanks has challenged the legality of online service provider privacy agreements with consumers in a new report released yesterday.
Andrew Colley | 15 Sep | Read more
Australia has developed a reputation for its lack of cyber security skills but Telstra says you can find the talent if you’re prepared to look in unexpected places.
Andrew Colley | 09 Sep | Read more
Respected information security journalist and podcaster Patrick Gray has blown the lid on the spectacular set of blunders behind Australia’s failed online census.
Andrew Colley | 12 Aug | Read more
Cyber security remains the biggest obstacle to the development of the so-called “Internet-of-Things”, according to IT research firm Gartner.
Andrew Colley | 26 Jul | Read more
The researchers with information security specialist FireEye, who worked with Dutch authorities to shutdown the campaign in June, said that attackers could easily resume the campaign by winding up new command and control servers.
Andrew Colley | 20 Jul | Read more