Centrelink says it is completely candid about privacy breaches by employees after being forced to clarify the number of breaches that occurred during the last financial year.
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Progress has been made on the US government's strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems, but the work is not done, a panel of experts said on Tuesday.
Yahoo's latest salvo in the battle for control of users' desktops has got some worried -- the 'default' installation of YIM now surreptiously installs myriad other things as well.
The deadline to comply with Australia’s new privacy legislation is just months away, yet a ZDNet survey has found that a whopping 85 percent of businesses aren’t even aware of the new laws -- a figure that doesn’t surprise the Privacy Commissioner.
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The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
Microsoft is undergoing a major cultural shift in the way it deals with security, but it has come later than it should have, according to company executives.
IT professionals are gambling with the security of systems, and doing it with the odds against them stacked higher than they can imagine, according to IT security expert Peter Neumann.
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