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• NSW police upgrade comms system amid hacker concerns

  The New South Wales police have announced a AU$18 million security upgrade of their internal communications system after media reports of a hacker tricking police operators on their radio network.

• Ruxcon: A security conference with a difference

  From mysterious men on rooftops with telephoto lenses, to attendees trying to use -household appliances to launch non-conventional buffer overflow attacks", the inaugural Ruxcon IT security conference in Sydney had it all.

• In depth: Is being hacked a publicity nightmare?

  A 17 year old Queensland youth was arrested last week on charges relating to a security breach at a "prominent" internet service provider (ISP). ZDNet Australia spoke to the director of the recently established Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), federal agent Alastair MacGibbon, about the arrest, and found out why letting the world know you've been hacked isn't the end of the world.

• No arrests yet from Melbourne AFP raid

  The Australian Federal Police today confirmed it had not yet made any arrests from a highly publicised raid on an alleged internet fraudster in Melbourne, despite holding evidence for around a week.

• IT workers aren't the Net police

  It looks like the now-infamous case of until recently jailed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov was just the beginning of a broader trend to cast IT professionals in the role of info cop. Software developers like Sklyarov and even help desk and system administration workers, it appears, are being deputised to enforce ill-conceived laws aimed at perceived Web-borne threats to society.

Features and Case Studies (31)

• Crisis strikes: What do you do next?

  The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?

• Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

  Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

• Is the world ready to fight cybercrime?

  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.

• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Hackers: Under the hood

  Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

Reviews (5)

• MS Palladium: A must or a menace?

  Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.

• Tuning out wireless chaos

  Security for wireless could end up more of a mess than security on our PCs, unless we act soon.

• The laptops that come in from the cold

  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?

• Cure for Code Red: An Internet border patrol?

  SECURING THE WEB: Making the Internet a better (and safer) place to live means mapping many of the institutions of the real world--defense, taxation, government, law enforcement--over to cyberspace. Here are some of the things that must to happen to bring the Internet into line.

• Pop those pop-ups: Six packages tested

  Fed up with pop-up ads? We review six ad-free browser apps, each with its own method of removing annoying solicitations.

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