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Victoria Police has appointed Michael Vanderheide, who has been heading up the ACT's shared services department InTACT, as its new executive director infrastructure.
Newly appointed Victoria Police commissioner Simon Overland intends to revamp the operating model for the force's troubled IT division, according to budget estimate documents released earlier this month.
The pre-beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developer Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it.
A UK union has told members at Westminster City Council to refuse to use biometric devices for clocking on and off, due to concerns over consultation and privacy.
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Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
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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.
Recent commentary in the press around Microsoft's Windows 7 and the upgrade paths available for Windows XP has failed to consider the realities of upgrading and managing both the operating system and application environments required by today's business users.
The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
With a series of strategic appointments, management consultancy McKinsey has placed itself perfectly to benefit from the massive $43 billion slush fund the Federal Government is describing publicly as "the National Broadband Network project".
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If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
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