Confidential personal information gathered by Victorian government agencies "can be, and has been, easily compromised", according to a report published today by the state's Auditor General.
New laws targeting criminals who skim credit and debit cards will be introduced in Queensland to target the growing problem of identity theft.
Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $US50,000 ($A54,095) by a Nigerian man who said he was her Mr Right.
Both broadband discussion forum Whirlpool as well as computer hardware market and forum Overclockers AU appear to have had their security compromised over the weekend.
Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland yesterday launched an in-depth Cyber Security Strategy for the nation, supported by a new Computer Emergency Response Team to rival the existing AusCERT.
PayPal has promised the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) to improve its act on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
RS, this is my last and final attempt to educate you to the niceties and gentle practice of treating you fellow human-beings with some degree of respect instead of your hostile constant abusive and vindictive remarks -- Sydney Lawrence.
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In a similar fashion to the relatively benign ikee virus that was recently released, another iPhone virus is targeting jailbroken Australian devices and builds botnet functionality into it, according to computer security firm, Sophos.
The company responsible for rolling out Sydney's troubled Tcard system is $74 million in debt, a NSW parliamentary budget estimates committee has been told.
What exactly was going on here between Carr and ANU research professor Brian Schmidt at the launch of the ANU's new supercomputer yesterday? A new martial arts move? Explanation of a star going supernova?
Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.
Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has commenced a final roll-out of two-factor authentication (2FA) systems that will see 400,000 customers of its NetBank internet banking service upgraded to the secure log-in technology.
An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, ikee, which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley.
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.
Online payments giant and eBay subsidiary PayPal has appointed an internal veteran, Frerk-Malte Feller, to lead its Australian operations, effective immediately.
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.
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.
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.
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