Federal government ministerial staff have been asked to file details of their personal sexual history and drug habits as a measure to protect them from blackmail, leaving the government vulnerable to data leaks and hacking according to privacy advocates.
After a string of high level data loss incidents, Opposition MPs in the UK have condemned the government for failing to protect the personal information of tens of millions of Britons stored across numerous public services.
Google has defended its privacy credentials following a claim by Microsoft's privacy chief last week that the search giant was a decade behind Microsoft when it came to privacy.
Technology giant IBM has taken independent security researchers to task for their role in making information about unpublished computer attacks available in an undisciplined manner.
The UK government's ban on staff transporting unencrypted data has hampered performance at a UK agency even forcing it to revert temporarily to paper-based processes.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
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.
One wouldn't expect the price and privacy-conscious public sector to shop at Harvey Norman. But occasionally they do.
In some Australian organisations the CSO is a toothless tiger and employed only to meet regulatory requirements, which can lead to companies limping from one IT security disaster to another.
Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability.
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Tim Harvey, CIO of Hilton Hotels, tells of technologies that will turn hotel rooms into "homes away from home".
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.
For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?
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