The newly formed Australian Pirate Party came out swinging yesterday with a release criticising the international discussions currently being held in Korea to cement an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
The Australian Federal Police has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur at 7pm tonight.
With its eye on a piece of the National Broadband Network, Huawei has welcomed Australian government officials to visit its Shenzhen headquarters in an effort to improve its image in the country.
The Department of Defence has entered into a standing offer with IBM for the purchase of x86 servers and services.
The director of Australia's existing Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) this week said a rival government group that received funding in the budget was unlikely to impact its operations.
This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
When it comes to matters of national security, you do not have the right to know.
It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Out of the box, a Linux desktop is far more secure than most others.
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
AMD has released its Opteron processor, and several companies have also announced products based on the chip.
Despite her unpopular stance on encryption, Dorothy Denning's dedication to security has earned her respect. What does she think is in store for security?
Security expert Bruce Schneier argues that constant vigilance, not technology, is the best defence against computer break-ins.
Who needs cords and keyboards? Just plug your brain into the PC. Welcome to the future.
A Linux cluster coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory later this year will be the most powerful Linux or Intel-based supercomputer ever built.
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