NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, has revealed details of a new project encouraging citizens to capture video and photographic evidence of crimes on their phones and upload it over the Web to law enforcement agencies.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) is intending to build a national data interception and surveillance system next year. With the system's request for tender closing today, the NSW Police Force is expected to be watching closely in light of its plans for a similar upgrade next year.
The NSW Police have frozen plans to issue on-the-spot fines using hand held devices through the state.
The vulnerability of the Australian banking sector's electronic distribution channels has once again been highlighted with the discovery of yet another card "skimming" device attached to an automatic teller machine in NSW.
The New South Wales police have announced a AU$18 million security upgrade of their internal communications system after media reports of a hacker tricking police operators on their radio network.
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
Proactive measures need to be taken to bring down high tech crime rates, according to detective acting inspector Peter Wheeler from Melbourne's Computer Crime Squad, following today's release of the 2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey.
Government fleet management body StateFleet relies on business intelligence tools to increase its forecasting accuracy in an effort to save millions of dollars annually.
Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US.
It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.
Australian CIOs will see more and more blended security threats within the next couple of years, according to one security researcher.
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