UK resident Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking Nasa and military installations.
A British man accused of hacking into US military and NASA computer systems today lost his appeal against extradition to face trial.
The general manager of security and emergency management for Woodside Petroleum has publicly accused government staff of leaking commercially sensitive information that was provided under the Trusted Information Sharing Network (TISN).
ISPs will be granted a one-off government subsidy towards the cost of installing filtering technology as part of the Rudd government's AU$125.8 million cybersafety plan.
It is more important for online banking to make customers feel secure than make those customers actually secure, according to the head of technology at Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand subsidiary, Auckland Savings Bank (ASB).
It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
Minimising red tape and administrative processes has always been an key goal for most enterprises, but occasionally you get the suspicion that such tasks are not always being undertaken from the purest of motives.
While news that Australia's copyright law will be updated is welcome -- so copying CDs onto a digital music player is no longer illegal -- there's still plenty to dislike about the proposed new regime.
The first prosecution under the Spam Act last week may seem like nothing more than a single renegade marketeer being shut down. But it isn't...
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.
DVD copying is a murky, controversial, and highly sought-after process. We wade into the fray.
The Australian Communications Authority has claimed a win for rural telecommunications following the prohibition of mobile phone boosters in May last year.
Your PC may not contain national security secrets, but that doesn't mean you want to give hackers easy access to your personal information. Firewalls not only protect your system from malicious intruders, they also protect you from some viruses and cookie-planting, data-gathering Web sites.
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