As a fresh round of phishing spam targets Australian tax payers, the ATO's CIO has warned fake Web sites designed to steal Australian credit card and personal details are "a fact of life".
Australian Taxation Office officials are looking to expand the capacity of its e-tax client application to accept pre-prepared data, with information from financial institutions and share registers top off the list.
With the end of the financial year looming, Australians can be as old as “999” and still lodge their tax returns through the Australian Taxation Office’s online system, which has been revamped after last year's e-tax debacles.
The Australian Tax Office has restricted access to its Web site after discovering that a "small number" of tax agents have been infected by a Trojan, which has "stolen" their user IDs and passwords.
The Australian Taxation Office has advised Australians using Apple or Linux operating systems that they will be unable to lodge tax returns electronically using the ATO's e-tax software unless they use a Windows emulator or a kiosk in one of the agency's shop fronts.
Australians, it turns out, are rather keen on submitting their tax returns electronically, but if you want to know just how keen they are right at this moment, you'll have to wait for a couple of years.
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The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
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How do four of Australia's largest government agencies protect their networks from attackers? To find out, ZDNet.com.au went to Canberra and spoke to the CIOs of Customs, Centrelink, Defence and the Australian Tax Office.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
The Australian Taxation Office is about to complete an important phase of the federal government's Gatekeeper strategy to drive ecommerce, the Business Authentication Framework (BAF).
Australian Tax Office (ATO) CIO Bill GIbson talks security.
This week's Club Builder looks at fixing .NET's versioning problems, how ASCII art can help remembering SSH keys, and how the ATO intends to let people running OS X or Linux file tax returns.
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