Security experts from Defence have been called in to assist agencies that were targeted by last night's attack on the Prime Minister's and other agency websites. More attacks are expected, according to sources.
Former Defence intelligence officer Rachel Noble has been nominated as Australia's first National Security chief information officer a role that will provide strategic technology advice to the Prime Minister.
Originally designed to service drought affected areas, Centrelink's Drought Buses are being used for all emergency conditions. ZDNet.com.au talks with Centrelink's acting national manager for IT service delivery, Matt Rodgers, about how tech keeps the agency on the road.
The Defence Signals Directorate has completed its evaluation testing for hardware encryption to protect government PC and laptop hard drives.
Department of Defence officials and Australian government CIO Ann Steward have heralded the agency's gaining of the highest available level of public key infrastructure (PKI) accreditation, key to its network centric warfare vision.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
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.
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.
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While a solid machine and a capable media centre, we're still trying to work out who the target market for the highly expensive LT VAIO is. Design-crazed multimillionaires, perhaps.
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The future of high-fidelity audio is here. The only questions are: which is better and which is here to stay? Two new digital audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, square off.
Philips releases the world's first Super Audio CD Player.
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