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  • NSW Corrective Services flags $45m revamp

    In this year's budget the NSW Department of Corrective Services was given the green light to do some serious tinkering under the hood of its IT infrastructure.

  • Adam Internet defends antisemitic hosting

    Adelaide-based ISP Adam Internet has defended its decision to continue to provide web hosting services to a holocaust denier, despite a federal judge ordering years ago that his site be taken down.

  • CrimTrac overhauls ICT back-office

    The nation's peak law enforcement technology agency CrimTrac has flagged plans for a major overhaul of its back-end ICT infrastructure that will deliver it a strong business continuity capability.

  • Qld to build Wi-Fi into trains

    The Queensland Government has outlined plans to offer a Wi-Fi service on the state's trains as part of a roll-out of real-time security monitoring technology.

  • Internet Explorer 8: Features & benchmarks

    With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft is looking to stem the loss of market share to rivals like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. The browser has had a serious revamp, but has Microsoft done enough?

  • Wikileaks spills ACMA blacklist

    Whistle-blower web repository Wikileaks has published what appears to be the Australian Communications and Media Authority's blacklist of banned websites.

  • Telstra aids iiNet in AFACT case

    iiNet today revealed it had received legal assistance from arch-rival Telstra in defending against the lawsuit from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

  • iiNet was asking for legal trouble: Exetel

    Exetel CEO John Linton said today that iiNet brought the federal court action upon itself by not forwarding Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) complaints to its customers.

  • Security firms slam Microsoft 'capitulation'

    Major security companies have criticised Microsoft's OneCare security software and the software giant's decision to stop charging for the offering.

  • MS piracy squad targets Aussie retailers

    As part of Microsoft's attempt to stop software piracy, it has named several Australian individuals partaking in "the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software".

  • Jury out on ISP filtering trial

    Internet service providers (ISPs) are sitting on the fence on whether to participate in the government's upcoming live trial for ISP-level filtering of undesirable internet content, with their involvement depending heavily on the terms of the trial.

  • HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce

    HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • GPS used to track criminals and truants in US

    GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.

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