Custom to finally deliver SmartGate

Custom to finally deliver SmartGate After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.

  • Mitnick cleared after customs scare

    Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago.

    03 October 2008 09:39 AM

  • Hacker talks fooling e-passport systems

    The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.

    03 October 2008 09:39 AM

  • TCP flaw threatens Web servers

    Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial-of-service attacks if exploited. At present there is no workaround and there are no patches available.

    03 October 2008 09:13 AM

  • King Kaspersky comes down under

    Cybercrime fighter and antivirus king Eugene Kaspersky today announced he will visit Sydney in October to launch Kaspersky Lab's Australian office.

    02 October 2008 05:40 PM

It's this attitude to customers that causes people to go on the net and "purchase" Adobe software from Russian download sites.

From: Adobe defends Aussie CS4 price hike

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  • E-passport fraud no threat to SmartGate

    The Australian Customs Service today said its inbound e-passport authentication system SmartGate would not be fooled by fake details, after a Dutch hacker claimed to have broken through similar systems in Europe.

    02 October 2008 03:31 PM

  • Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack

    A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.

    02 October 2008 07:38 AM

  • NSW govt consolidates shared services

    The New South Wales state government has quietly created a new shared services agency that will, among other things, provide centralised IT services to a large number of departments and agencies.

    29 September 2008 06:13 PM

  • Cisco releases 'critical' updates

    Networking giant Cisco has published a raft of security advisories as part of its biannual patch-release schedule.

    26 September 2008 09:43 AM

  • Australia's cybersecurity needs work

    A previously unreleased report from Australia's attorney-general's department has urged the government to take action to curb the quick and ferocious nature of modern cyber-attacks.

    24 September 2008 12:24 PM

  • Don't buy stand-alone antivirus: Trend Micro

    Stand-alone antivirus applications were dangerous because they could not adequately protect users and so created a false sense of security, according to the top malware expert at Trend Micro. However, the company continues to sell its stand-alone antivirus app because of 'customer demand'.

    24 September 2008 03:41 PM

  • FBI searches apartment over Palin hack

    US federal authorities are ramping up an investigation of a 20-year-old college student for allegedly hacking into US vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin's email account.

    23 September 2008 07:03 AM

  • McAfee bids US$465m for Secure Computing

    Security specialist McAfee on Monday in the US announced that it had a deal in place to acquire Secure Computing.

    23 September 2008 06:47 AM

  • Minchin gets shadow broadband job

    Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull today dumped Bruce Billson and appointed long-time Howard finance and administration minister and party heavyweight Nick Minchin to the shadow broadband and digital economy portfolio.

    22 September 2008 01:07 PM

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