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Financial markets regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has started looking for an external firm to conduct counter-surveillance activities across its information and communications technology systems.
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Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago.
The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.
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Asus' TS500 offers reliability, speed and efficiency at a low price for a mid-range tower server. However, case design is not ideal, and the system strangely requires a PS2 keyboard and mouse.
Lenovo has continued the ThinkPad tradition of no-nonsense business laptops with the SL500, which provides good value and is powered by the Intel Centrino 2 architecture, and comes loaded with Windows Vista Business.
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