South Australian police are spending AU$5.2 million over five years on an IT system to track criminal motorcycle gangs.
A revamped data warehouse is helping Victoria Police to reduce crime rates and has delivered AU$2 million in productivity benefits, despite a lack of initial budget planning which threatened to derail the project early on.
ISPs will be granted a one-off government subsidy towards the cost of installing filtering technology as part of the Rudd government's AU$125.8 million cybersafety plan.
A computer program to streamline Victoria's criminal justice system is running nine years late and could cost four times as much as planned.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) is intending to build a national data interception and surveillance system next year. With the system's request for tender closing today, the NSW Police Force is expected to be watching closely in light of its plans for a similar upgrade next year.
With the hype about new technologies, it's easy to get caught up in new tools and applications. But quite a few issues require investigation before you introduce a new technology into the enterprise.
The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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.
Industry watcher Jon Oltsik explains the changes powering the most profound transition in the history of the computer security industry.
The dawning era of "end to end" security architectures is squeezing customers between the proprietary efforts of two dominant vendors.
'Slow' best describes the speed and sales of the much-touted Segway two-wheeler.
Commentary: The average fairy tale has more truth in it that some of the rubbish that's endlessly reiterated about software piracy.
RMIT IT Test Labs take a look at the top enterprise applications for stopping viruses from ravaging your organisation.
Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.
The mobile phone may not yet be your all-in-one communications device, but some very innovative Web sites are making the PC-to-mobile connection a very attractive way to stay in touch.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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