The differing missions of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI have led to a split over telecommunications intercept policies — which Americans call "wiretaps" — according to computer scientist Susan Landau.
5 days ago in AusCERT 2012 by Stilgherrian Comment 1 Vote
Vulnerabilities in biometric systems are too dangerous to allow the general public to point out, according to Biometrics Institute technical committee chair Ted Dunstone — and they should not be encouraged to try.
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Proposed changes to the Privacy Act that would shore up information security online and give the Privacy Commission greater enforcement powers, including the power to dish out hefty fines, have gone before parliament this week.
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Telstra has revealed that a third-party company responsible for its GameArena and Games Shop websites has fallen victim to a hacking attack, spilling the details of up to 35,000 customers.
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The Department of Human Services (DHS) has stalled on its move towards a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, stating that the market is too immature for it.
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Westpac has spent a year developing its own in-house app for securely taking and delivering notes on the iPad, solving a document-security puzzle that has troubled rivals for some time.
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Spotify's Australian launch seems to have failed on at least one level: Australians visiting the specific "spotify.com.au" site this morning to sign up found that it had an invalid security certificate.
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Without internet-based passports and identity credentials for the next generation of citizens to use, for example, at polling booths, democracy will fall apart within two decades, according to internet security billionaire Eugene Kaspersky.
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Android is widely accepted as being iOS' greatest rival, but, according to Dell SecureWorks security researcher Timothy Vidas, it has a host of issues that have made it a target for malware authors.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) looked set to become a haven for Bitcoin virtual currency mining last year, after a so-called "miner" placed a piece of code in the production environment, which could have potentially netted to thousands of dollars. The ABC's security systems, however, had other plans.
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, and, according to Earthwave CEO Carlos Minassian, the situation will get worse when the National Broadband Network (NBN) rolls out.
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Business-technology exhibition CeBIT 2012 kicked off today, bringing together a who's who of technology players. Many exhibitors appeared to be playing it safe, with booth babes absent from view. Instead, a few took BYO to heart, and brought their own trucks, caravans and bikes.
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Chrome overtakes IE: does it matter? http://t.co/e4SILk8a
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A ZDNet study showed that British Facebook users are drunk in 76 percent of their photos.
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