The federal government is to conduct a full review of the security of public and private sector information and communications networks.
After years of friction, the federal government is finally seeing eye-to-eye with the states, and has given its support for jamming mobile phones in prisons.
South Australian police are spending AU$5.2 million over five years on an IT system to track criminal motorcycle gangs.
In a move to add more grist to the mill, an attorney representing Yahoo shareholders brought forth more material to support a call for a speedy hearing date on the company's controversial employee severance plans, according to a letter sent on Wednesday morning to the judge overseeing the shareholders lawsuit.
Intel's business practices will come under the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has opened a formal antitrust investigation of the chipmaker.
The head of ASIO has urged business to assess IT security because individuals and nations are targeting the private sector to steal sensitive information.
The 55 Australian organisations that took part in Australia's cyberwar games, Cyber Storm II suffered "death by a thousand cuts", according to the head of Australia's Cyber Storm II effort.
GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
The Federal Government has abandoned plans to grant law enforcement agencies unfettered freedom to intercept communications from multiple devices that are not listed in a warrant, yielding to pressure exerted by the privacy lobby.
Psystar is currently selling Open Computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, in what appears to be a clear violation of Apple's software licence agreement.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
IT director Bob Berg tells ZDNet Australia how Western Australia’s Department of Attorney-General and Corrective Services overcame complex document management for 40 separate Web sites.
A government e-mail systems lockdown has kept popular BlackBerry handhelds off-limits at many Australian government departments, but a simple fix has changed that.
Company directors undervalue their IT staff and still believe that automation will help them cut IT budgets without affecting their core business, according to David Boyles, chief information officer of ANZ Bank from 1998-2004.
With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.
Attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains why legal woes are mounting for the record label over its CD fiasco.
In the midst of a hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft, database giant Oracle already eyeing Siebel Systems.
Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.
Many free and inexpensive office suites are available for download or for use in a web browser. So what's the advantage of paying a pretty penny for a desktop office suite? Corel's WordPerfect Office X4 offers a strong software package that comes closest to the breadth and depth of features found in Microsoft Office.
Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
What would you do if you discovered you could piggyback on someone else's wireless network? Would you use it? Would you ask first? Here's how I'd solve these and other ethical dilemmas that Wi-Fi poses.
Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
Microsoft says it will fold its SharePoint business portal software into its Office System product line.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.
Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe — but that's because it's full of crap.
When it comes to matters of national security, you do not have the right to know.
It looks like AusCERT and GovCERT have worked out their issues and are no longer stepping on each others' toes.
Who would have imagined that Ericsson's new local managing director would have an immediate past enmeshed in international espionage?
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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