UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country.
Every year, the US Army designates a set of its top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is testing a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based system to relay information from various intelligence sources and create a detailed image of a battlefield.
The House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a "compromise" spy law that would shield AT&T and other companies from pending lawsuits accusing them of opening their networks to the government in violation of wiretap laws.
Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system.
Are Australia's privacy laws slowly killing Australians by preventing medical professionals gaining access to patient information?
Who would have imagined that Ericsson's new local managing director would have an immediate past enmeshed in international espionage?
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.
Customs has been trialling a spy plane to patrol Australia's borders, flying surveillance low and slow to get into the dirty details of shipping.
When it comes to IT security, physical security is the foundation for our overall strategy. We take a look at 10 of the most essential security measures you should implement now, if you haven't already done so.
Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.
silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?
The Rack Station RS408 is an attractive NAS solution with plenty of performance, plus lots of extras to tempt the smaller business.
This is an intelligent day/night network mini-dome camera that offers a good range of features for its price.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
In a world where the spies have unparalleled access to our everyday lives, there are some simple ways to make them earn their pay.
Electronics giant Sony has announced new software that will allow Aibo owners to control the robot dog via e-mail commands.
History of British PCs
The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.… Watch it now
Telstra's BT coat doesn't fit
Australian security: the lucky country
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