News (19)

  • Teen hacker helps govt block porn

    Downloads of the government's Internet filtering software have hit six figures, according to the Communications Minister with the Coalition now turning to a schoolboy for help in improving the software.

  • AU Opposition slams NetAlert funding reduction

    The federal Opposition has blasted as inadequate the reduced funding allocated by the Government to Internet watchdog NetAlert.

  • Porn-blocker hit as Razor Gang slash AU$30m off tech

    The Rudd government's so-called Razor Gang has taken the blade to some of the Howard government's pre-election promises for the 2007-08 fiscal year, including AU$30 million sliced from the federal tech budget.

  • Aussie anti-porn Net filter gets closer

    The federal government's plan to provide a free child-safe Internet filter to every Australian family is progressing, with the Commonwealth today calling for industry help with the technical details of the idea.

  • ISP-level porn filters a bad idea

    Wise heads have already dismissed the idea of filtering pornography at the Internet service provider level, and rightly so.

More News >

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    No sex please, we're Labor

    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.

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Blame the computer

    Is it just me, or are you also tired of technology copping the blame for what are obviously people problems?

Create an e-mail alert for "netalert"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
netalert


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 abby
  2. Popularity: 1 afp
  3. Popularity: 1 association
  4. Popularity: 2 australia
  5. Popularity: 4 block
  6. Popularity: 1 brett soric
  7. Popularity: 3 censorship
  8. Popularity: 1 child
  9. Popularity: 2 children
  10. Popularity: 2 coalition
  11. Popularity: 1 computer
  12. Popularity: 2 content
  13. Popularity: 4 coonan
  14. Popularity: 1 cross-site scripting
  15. Popularity: 2 dcita
  16. Popularity: 2 dinham
  17. Popularity: 9 filter
  18. Popularity: 1 filtering
  19. Popularity: 2 google
  20. Popularity: 7 government
  21. Popularity: 2 hack
  22. Popularity: 1 hacking
  23. Popularity: 3 helen coonan
  24. Popularity: 1 human vs technology
  25. Popularity: 4 internet
  26. Popularity: 1 internet porn
  27. Popularity: 4 isp
  28. Popularity: 2 john howard
  29. Popularity: 2 kate lundy
  30. Popularity: 1 kim beazley
  31. Popularity: 2 labor
  32. Popularity: 1 labor party
  33. Popularity: 1 liberal party
  34. Popularity: 2 library
  35. Popularity: 1 money
  36. Popularity: 1 patch
  37. Popularity: 4 police
  38. Popularity: 5 pornography
  39. Popularity: 3 security
  40. Popularity: 1 senate
  41. Popularity: 2 senator helen coonan
  42. Popularity: 3 software
  43. Popularity: 1 suck
  44. Popularity: 1 taxpayer
  45. Popularity: 2 vulnerability
  46. Popularity: 1 waia
  47. Popularity: 4 web
  48. Popularity: 1 western
  49. Popularity: 1 whirlpool
  50. Popularity: 1 xss

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured