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  • UK prisoner data goes missing

    Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.

  • Centrelink replaces backup batteries

    Welfare agency Centrelink has revealed planns to replace hundreds of ageing Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units that provide emergency back-up power for computers scattered all around the nation.

  • San Fran gets codes to hijacked network

    The computer network hostage crisis in San Francisco is over, thanks to the city's mayor.

  • Inside the San Fran network lockout

    A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears.

  • San Francisco admin hijacks city network

    A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out.

  • EU disconnection about 'consumers' rights'?

    A set of telecommunications laws was given the green light by a European parliamentary committee yesterday, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their internet service providers. However the authors of the Act claim it will protect consumers.

  • UK Information boss to penalise HMRC, Defence

    The information commissioner is to take action against two government organisations over data-loss incidents.

  • Aussie schools get first $116m in PC funds

    The first round of funding for Labor's plan to put a laptop on every desk AU$116 million is winging its way to 896 schools for over 100,000 computers.

  • OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

    Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

  • 70 arrested in NSW web child porn crackdown

    A policeman, a teacher and sports administrator are three of 70 people arrested across Australia after a six month investigation into child pornography.

  • Agencies to link in $25m australia.gov.au revamp

    Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner yesterday announced that EDS had won an AU$25 million contract over four years to create australia.gov.au, a 'one-stop-shop' for all government information and services.

  • AFP child protection system online by year's end

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed yesterday that its Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) will be operational by the end of the year, as final tests are conducted on the platform.

  • Microsoft admits Vista UAC prompts 'need work'

    Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.

  • AusCERT 2008: Complete coverage

    All the news and highlights from Australia's largest IT security conference, taking place in the Gold Coast this week.

  • Microsoft, OLPC tie the knot after virility test

    The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month, with a broader release in August or September.

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