The government's welfare Access Card will not prevent benefit crimes, according to a report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
The Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus has encouraged state and territory governments to introduce new laws to combat identity theft but observers have cast doubt over their potential effectiveness.
Centrelink's data matching technology has helped land a two year jail sentence for a 65-year-old identity fraudster who worked while receiving government benefits.
As a fresh round of phishing spam targets Australian tax payers, the ATO's CIO has warned fake Web sites designed to steal Australian credit card and personal details are "a fact of life".
Overseas deployments have begun to drain both the manpower and resources of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and efforts to fight high-tech crime are suffering ahead of the Rudd government's promise to increase the force by 500 officers.
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
Identity fraud cost the Australian community AU$1.1 billion in 2001/02, according to a report released by a senior Minister, who also acknowledged the rapid subsequent growth of the problem.
Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
Nearly half of all companies in a new survey reported significant fraud, with managers being the most likely culprits. But IT remains underused in cracking down on the problem.
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world's largest supercomputers.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
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