• Tanner claims Gershon victory

    Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review's target of shaving off $1 billion a year.

    06 November 2009 05:15 PM

  • PayPal Australia gets new chief

    Online payments giant and eBay subsidiary PayPal has appointed an internal veteran, Frerk-Malte Feller, to lead its Australian operations, effective immediately.

    05 November 2009 12:46 PM

  • Oz Pirate Party slams 'secret' IP talks

    The newly formed Australian Pirate Party came out swinging yesterday with a release criticising the international discussions currently being held in Korea to cement an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

    05 November 2009 11:56 AM

  • AFACT attacks Westnet piracy policy

    iiNet managing director Michael Malone today denied that cancelling iiNet subsidiary Westnet's policy to forward copyright breach notifications was designed to be obstructive to copyright holders.

    02 November 2009 03:05 PM

  • Visa Australia kills signatures by 2013

    Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.

    02 November 2009 01:09 PM

  • CBA signs 5-year business security deal

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year deal with digital identity firm IdenTrust to enable more secure authentication and electronic signatures for CommBiz customers using certain applications.

    26 October 2009 01:55 PM

If AFACT or their member organisations have an allegation of a criminal act, why cannot they ask the police to investigate?

From: AFACT: Our evidence not 100% reliable

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • Come to our reader Christmas party!

    All ZDNet.com.au readers are invited to our first annual reader Christmas party, to be held on 9 December, kicking off from 6pm at Maloney's Hotel in Sydney's central business district.

    02 November 2009 11:53 AM

  • Conroy will 'shortly' release filter report

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy late yesterday said he had received the report from Enex Testlabs into trials of ISP-based internet filtering technology, and would release it "shortly" as part of a public consultation process.

    20 October 2009 10:51 AM

  • AFACT: Our evidence not 100% reliable

    The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) solicitor, Gilbert & Tobin's Michael Williams, has conceded that the techniques AFACT used to count iiNet customers' copyright breaches was not 100 per cent "reliable".

    15 October 2009 04:18 PM

  • CommBank installs contactless payments too

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia has followed National Australia Bank (NAB) in rolling out contactless payment terminals to select locations.

    15 October 2009 12:22 PM

  • iiNet quizzes Hollywood via video

    iiNet's legal counsel this morning cross-examined four senior Hollywood executives from Warner Bros, Disney, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures via video link, with the court hearing about the industry's long-running battle against piracy.

    14 October 2009 04:05 PM

  • Australia a 'soft target' for ATM skimmers

    An international expert on ATM card skimming gangs has warned Australia is seen as a soft target because of large withdrawal limits and old ATM technology.

    14 October 2009 10:07 AM

  • Kazaa witness takes iiTrial stand

    Nigel Carson, a computer forensics investigator and a key witness in the 2004 Kazaa case, was called to the witness box today by iiNet's legal team to answer questions on whether an IP address was enough to identify a movie pirate.

    13 October 2009 05:16 PM

  • National staffer nabbed for computer fraud

    A bank manager caught stealing from her employer has been sentenced in Tasmania to two years in jail for counts including computer fraud.

    13 October 2009 04:34 PM

  • iiNet vs. AFACT, week 1: Video

    Check out our video coverage of the iiNet versus AFACT trial in Sydney last week, as well as what the man on the street thinks of the whole mess.

    13 October 2009 01:53 PM

  • NAB eyes three-factor authentication

    National Australia Bank is confident that it has the tools it needs to leapfrog rivals by adopting three-factor authentication, adding an extra means of security to the normal two factors most Australian banks offer customers to secure their transactions.

    12 October 2009 04:44 PM

  • AFACT also targeted Internode, Exetel, Optus

    The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) investigations into Australian movie piracy led it to focus on two file-sharing clients and four Australian ISPs, the Federal Court heard today.

    12 October 2009 02:54 PM

  • AFACT bombarded iiNet with breach notices

    The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) had sent iiNet over 1000 copyright infringement notifications over a seven-day period, the Federal Court heard yesterday.

    09 October 2009 10:47 AM

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