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    The Australian Department of Defence is poised to re-examine the integrity of its network following the discovery that its staff may have been indulging in pornographic e-mail activity that has triggered alarm bells for at least one major enterprise beyond its network.

  • Pill peddlers cough up more spam

    Health care-related e-mail messages, primarily those marketing diet pills and Viagra, were the leading category of spam delivered to in-boxes in November.

  • Porn hysteria strikes again

    News that 50 Australia Post managers were caught sending pornographic e-mail is doubtless to spark off yet another bout of anti-Internet hysteria.

  • Media chief: Net's a 'moral-free zone'

    The president of media giant News Corp warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy.

  • Spam could soon be majority of e-mail: report

    Recent data suggests that unsolicited bulk email - or spam - could be the majority of email traffic by the end of the year, and corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged up.

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    The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.

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  • Family First election candidate ditched over porn e-mail

    Family First has expelled one of its election candidates over a pornography scandal.

  • Time for a .xxx domain?

    The concept of a .xxx domain for sex-oriented Web sites has had its share of critics, but attorney Eric Sinrod believes it is an idea whose time has come.

  • 10 ways to monitor company computers

    Like it or not, network administrators these days must take on the added task of playing Big Brother, monitoring employees' use of the computers and network. Here are 10 of the most effective ways to keep an eye on what your users are doing.

  • Election 07: Coonan vs Conroy

    With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

  • Criminal gangs turn to blackmailing the average user

    While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.

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  • Old hard drives yield data bonanza

    Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.

  • Policy Central Enterprise

    Enforcing the acceptable use of business computers is often a tricky business. Policy Central Enterprise is an application that offers to help manage an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) by placing the onus on individual users.

  • Avert your gaze! 8 filtering packages tested

    Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.

  • What next for the Internet?

    Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.

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