The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has issued a practical guide to businesses and government agencies showing them how best to respond in the event of a personal information security breach.
Howard Dahdah | 25 Aug | Read more
The Convention on Cybercrime is the work of the Council of Europe and is aimed at facilitating international cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes. Since the Convention came into being in 2001, the COE has been working to address the growing international concern over the threats posed by hacking and other computer-related crimes.
Howard Dahdah | 19 May | Read more
The Australian Taxation Office is on top of its game when it comes to information security, an independent investigation has found.
Howard Dahdah | 08 May | Read more
A telephone phishing scam, which purports to come from the NSW Police Force, has surfaced in NSW over the past 24 hours.
Howard Dahdah | 30 Apr | Read more
The UK government has accused the Chinese of hacking into the computer systems of some of its leading companies, according reports published by the English press over the weekend.
Howard Dahdah | 03 Dec | Read more
The Westpac bank's Web site has been out of action for most of Tuesday, but the company has dismissed suggestions it is the result of a denial of service attack
Howard Dahdah | 04 Sep | Read more
PHP bug hunter Stefan Esser says he feels vindicated after his successful Month of PHP Bugs project which ran through March.
Howard Dahdah | 10 Apr | Read more
[[ArtId:1592845665|Last month]], Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and a founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and PHP Security Response Team (which he has since left), launched his <a href="http://www.php-security.org/">Month of PHP Bugs </a>as a way of improving the security of PHP by outing flaws in its source code.
Howard Dahdah | 10 Apr | Read more
Hackers have targeted the web site of the ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope.
Howard Dahdah | 01 Nov | Read more
Complexity in software design needs to be eliminated otherwise computing's future era will be no more secure than applications in the current era.
Howard Dahdah | 29 Sep | Read more
A new of piece software promises to provide an instant audit of source code, notifying developers of insecure coding practices and vulnerabilities.
Howard Dahdah | 14 Jul | Read more
Next month a large gathering of Australia's underground hacker community will converge on the University of Technology, Sydney for a two-day event called RUXCON.
Howard Dahdah | 27 Mar | Read more