Hollywood's portrayal of a young conman in the Spielberg flick, Catch Me if You Can, may seem a world away from Australia's passport design but the two have a remarkably similar heritage.
Rodney Gedda |
04 Oct |
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If network intrusion vulnerabilities and operating system viruses aren't enough to keep IT managers on their toes, the next generation of security threats will target the millions of applications that are not secured, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart.
Rodney Gedda |
27 Sep |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has officially launched its online census collection application, dubbed eCensus, which could integrate with the proposed Department of Human Services' Access Card at the next census in 2011.
Rodney Gedda |
31 Jul |
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Human Services Minister Joe Hockey has vigorously defended the virtues of the federal government's planned smartcard, saying the project's cost will be controlled and people's privacy will not be compromised.
Rodney Gedda |
28 Jun |
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The Australia Federal Police (AFP) has started a recruitment drive to fill no fewer than 12 IT positions spanning reporting, analytics, cryptography and eavesdropping.
Rodney Gedda |
02 Jun |
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After Perth-based construction company BGC had its network crippled by broadcast traffic originating from Windows servers its IT director has labeled them "bots" which pose a risk to the organization.
Rodney Gedda |
08 May |
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The federal government's funding hike in response to a "complex security environment" will see the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) appoint its first CIO this year with applications closing at the end of the month.
Rodney Gedda |
17 Mar |
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With only 5 percent of all fraud cases reported in Victoria, detective sergeant and identity management preacher Rodney Mills has called for better communication between business and government to help combat this growing problem.
Rodney Gedda |
07 Mar |
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Terms like firewall, IDS, and deep packet inspection may be indicative of today's network security landscape, but tomorrow's may also include 'big brother' style appliances that log all user activity in an attempt to counter internal threats.
Rodney Gedda |
28 Nov |
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A recent spate of vulnerabilities discovered in Cisco's pervasive Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and the availability of its source code have not detracted from the company's mission to keep end users informed of security issues, according to CSO John Stewart.
Rodney Gedda |
24 Oct |
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Are your computers tough enough?
It was a sultry Australia Day long weekend in Sydney. A power surge caused the air conditioning in a new computer room to fail. The inside air temperature rapidly headed towards 80°C. One by one the Wintel fleet began to fall as the new floor tiles warped under the heat. The squadron of switches then went down as an infernal heat strikes the data centre. Finally, the last line of defence - the uninterruptible power supplies - were damaged beyond repair. Amid the chaos there is only one survivor - the mighty iSeries which came out of the chaos unscathed.
Rodney Gedda |
30 Aug |
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Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick.
Rodney Gedda |
21 Jul |
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With an existing mixture of mainframe and proprietary Unix systems, the Department of Defence has chosen the x86 and IA64 architectures over Sparc for its new $450,000 security management application.
Rodney Gedda |
25 Jul |
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A preoccupation with firewalls for information security is dangerous because it can divert attention and resources away from locking systems down, according to a visiting security researcher.
Rodney Gedda |
07 Jul |
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Melbourne's Monash University has implemented a vulnerability scanning system to get a clearer picture of potential threats across its 25,000-node network used by more than 50,000 students and 5000 staff.
Rodney Gedda |
05 Oct |
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