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The NSW police service is planning to beef up its security by consolidating its disparate identification systems and firewall management.
Dutch bank ABN Amro will soon offer free hardware security tokens to all local customers for their online banking transactions, a move which rivals have mostly adopted for selected corporate clients.
Bendigo Bank is set to become one of the first Australian banks to offer customers strong authentication protection for Internet banking using password generating tokens, in a move to thwart Internet banking fraudsters.
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