The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
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 Federal Police (AFP) announced today that it will be rolling out a new investigative logistics system developed by Microsoft for its online child protection unit, only a day after Queensland police swooped on Australian members of a global paedophile network.
Over the last 12 months, NSW police reports 600 people have been victimised by fraudsters on eBay. The most common of these cases are laptop computers, musical equipment, and digital cameras.
The NSW government is moving to clamp down on crime rings' stealing and trafficking in credit card data following recent thefts involving information from users of automatic teller machines (ATMs).
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