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    Content Filtering Technologies Overview 14 July, 2011 19:57:00

    Network and Internet Content Filtering (ICF) is a technology tied to controversy. The technology itself is extremely interesting and evolving rapidly, but it is the debate around how this technology should be implemented that evokes passionate argument. Be it teenagers at home or employees in the workplace, the scenarios and ethical implications are still to be unravelled.
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    Labor to keep Liberal broadband network 12 September, 2007 10:58:51

    Australia will have both national broadband networks proposed by Labor and Liberal if the federal Opposition government wins the next election.
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    ABC, SBS prep new digital radio service 03 September, 2007 12:32:36

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) corporation have started sourcing equipment and support for its new digital radio services for all state capital cities due to begin broadcasting in January 2009.
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    Kitty Bare for ICT in Current Federal Budget 15 May, 2007 12:12:36

    While there was plenty of cash handouts for everyone from the elderly to apprentices in the federal budget, there was very little in the way of new money for ICT.
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    Teleworking Falls Victim to Archaic Attitudes and Change Phobia 24 April, 2007 16:20:38

    Archaic attitudes and a widespread resistance by management to change in the workplace is stalling the teleworking trend.
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    Microsoft MD to chair govt ICT advisory board 31 August, 2006 15:55:06

    The Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) has revised the Ministerial ICT advisory board which will now have Microsoft Australia's managing director Steve Vamos as its chairman.
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    Aussie anti-spam law working, NZ to follow suit 12 July, 2006 12:19:31

    Spam volumes in Australia continue to be high, but the proportion of worldwide spam coming from Australia has dropped since the passing of the Spam Act in 2003, says the Australian government's Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA).
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    Skills take centre in Queensland 23 June, 2006 12:16:00

    The Queensland government signalled its intentions to put an end to a deepening skills shortage with its hosting last week of the National ICT Skills Summit in Brisbane.
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    ACS weighs in on national security debate 30 May, 2006 11:18:07

    A greater emphasis on end user training is needed if the government wants to improve the national e-security agenda, according to the Australian Computer Society's submission to the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts in its review of the E-Security National Agenda.
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    Skills Group Says No Quick Fix 07 March, 2006 12:23:47

    The Federal Government's skills crisis group is planning a three-pronged attack on Canberra's IT skills famine. But chair of the ICT Skills Taskforce Patrick Callioni admits breaking the skills drought hindering federal government IT initiatives will take time.
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    New open source foundation forms 27 January, 2006 09:56:18

    A new open source group, the Annodex Foundation, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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