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Govt throws Access Card to industry 11 June, 2008 16:24:07
Identity laws good enough.Deployment of a national access card will be a job for private industry, not government, according to the federal Human Services Minister, Joe Ludwig. - +
Gov grants $1.2M to train luddites 06 June, 2008 15:41:25
AusCERT caters for home usersThe federal government has today launched a $1.2 million national security alert service to round-out its plans to sanitise Internet feeds to families and small businesses. - +
PwC review lauds ATO's security practices 08 May, 2008 13:08:01
Tax office a bastion of secure information, review finds.The Australian Taxation Office is on top of its game when it comes to information security, an independent investigation has found. - +
Feds tout malware as Australia's biggest cyber threat 30 April, 2008 14:27:46
Inside the Australian High Tech Crime Centre’s war on cyber crime.The director of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre believes that the diversity of malware and its abilities to circumvent security products, is the greatest threat on the local cyber crime landscape. - +
SANS capitalises on security training in Canberra 23 April, 2008 15:38:19
Canberra convention centre to host six day security training event.The SANS Institute has formalised its association with Shearwater Solutions by appointing the company as its local ANZ representative, as well as bringing it on board to organize a SANS security training event in Canberra in June. - +
Chinese anti CNN hacking group disbands 21 April, 2008 11:44:42
Was 'Revenge of the Flame' a victim of too much publicity?When news of their planned attacks against CNN's website was published last week, the Chinese hacking group 'Revenge of the Flame' postponed their attack, due to there being too much public awareness of their plans. Since that news was made public, and under the increasing attention of the global media, it seems that it has all become too much for 'Revenge of the Flame' and they have announced their disbandment. - +
Plans by West Torrens Council to be disaster proof really take-off 15 April, 2008 13:52:09
Server leasing costs reduced by 80 per centThe city of West Torrens, which is home to Adelaide Airport, has implemented a server virtualisation and redundancy strategy to protect its data from unexpected disasters such as air crashes and floods. - +
Straight talk for security pros 17 March, 2008 08:50:32
At a conference, security professionals debated the best way to communicate security needs and handle upstream problems that may emergeCommunicating the importance of security risk and the need for related investment to those less familiar is no easy task, but industry experts agree there are a few techniques that you can follow as a CSO, CISO, or project manager to help get your point across and curry favor with other business leaders. - +
Federal government announces technology research grants 17 March, 2008 12:22:03
Funds cover biometrics, Web services and wireless meshThe federal government today announced more than $5.9 million in funding for counter-terrorism science and technology research as part of the Office of National Security's, Research Support for Counter-Terrorism (RSCT) program. - +
Australia engages allies in cyber warfare 07 March, 2008 14:24:39
National security tested in four-day Cyber Storm IICyber Storm II was today officially launched by the Attorney General in which five countries will engage in an international hacking exercise. - +
Defence CIO gets strategic in long-term IT makeover 06 March, 2008 11:59:41
Department has had three CIOs in four yearsLate last year Greg Farr, long-serving Australian Tax Office CIO, was poached into what at the time many considered to be the least desirable senior IT job in the country.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08 July, 2008 08:17:53
'Back-end servers are kind of a joke,' and the trouble doesn't end thereMalicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives. - +
How to not have your Web site hacked like Sony's 07 July, 2008 08:23:22
A SQL injection attack was used to plant malicious code on pages of two popular Sony Playstation games - SingStar Pop and God of War, reports security company Sophos. Hundreds of Web pages from other businesses have also been compromised.The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor. - +
AG launches review into national e-security 07 July, 2008 11:07:49
Howard's security agenda dragged over coals.A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda. - +
Selling zero-day exploits has a down side 07 July, 2008 10:16:36
There is an ongoing argument about the ethics of selling 0-day exploits on the open market: It helps if you don't sell exploits targeting the company you work for.Information Security can sometimes be a funny field to work in. Some days it seems as if anybody with their hands on unpublished exploit code can sell it for all they're worth, and others it seems that they are set to become the target of law enforcement and the companies the code affects. It does help if you don't work for one of the companies that is set to be affected by the exploits you are trying to sell and aren't trying to bootstrap a competing company in the process. - +
'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.
Zepto release the Mythos, the 2nd installment in the Centrino 2 refresh 09 July, 2008 12:05:00
Symantec Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users and Industry Experts 09 July, 2008 11:56:00
Frost & Sullivan: Australia’s Mobile Advertising Spend to Grow 300 Per Cent in 2008 09 July, 2008 07:57:00
DIARY ALERT - Symantec data leakage prevention seminars 08 July, 2008 17:20:00
Dimension Data Appoints New National Human Resources Director 08 July, 2008 16:58:00
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