Facial recognition technology will be rolled out across Victoria over the next 18 months allowing police to reopen 20,000 unsolved crimes.
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A new study has recommended that governments require the use of open-source software, fanning the flames of the increasingly heated debate over the place of open-source in public policy.
A coalition of federal law enforcement agencies announced a new push against child pornography on file-swapping networks, citing undercover operations ongoing since the northern fall of 2003.
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Customs plans on rolling out a system to identify a caller's location and what phone system they are using, however it has yet to reveal whether it will cross reference calls with Australia's national caller database.
Fewer than half of all home computer users protect their systems from viruses, cyber-crime and other hacking, Australian Federal Police e-crime chief Neil Gaughan told federal parliament this week in a wide-ranging testimony.
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The Australian Federal Police have swooped on homes across the country as part of a global crackdown on cyberspace gangs distributing pirated software.
Three British men were given prison sentences totalling six years on Friday for their part in a software counterfeiting ring.
In a move to add more open-source arrows to its quiver, Linux seller Red Hat has acquired the Netscape server software products of AOL Time Warner, the companies plan to announce Thursday.
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In 2008 the line between cybercrime and legitimate business will blur, Australians will find out just how many data breaches occur, smartphones will attract malware, and people will decide which group is worse: social networking sites seeking to monetise page hits or identity thieves.
The Northern Territory government has put its hand up as being among the victims of the Sasser worm, which began spreading across global computer networks Saturday.
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