Face-recognition technology and the near-universal adoption of social networking tools by teenagers could have already made future covert police and intelligence operations difficult, if not impossible, according former Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty.
Stilgherrian |
25 Aug |
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The politically oriented hacking group, Anonymous, has released 1GB of what is says are private e-mails and documents from an executive of a U.S. defense company that sells unmanned aerial vehicles to police and the U.S. military.
Jeremy Kirk |
19 Aug |
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A parliamentary inquiry has highlighted serious concerns with the government's Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011, which is intended to allow Australia to accede to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.
Stilgherrian |
19 Aug |
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Can the Obama administration fix your identity management problems?
Ellen Messmer |
18 Aug |
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The U.S. government will work to develop an "unrivaled" cybersecurity workforce and broaden the nation's pool of skilled cyberworkers under a draft cybersecurity education plan released Friday by a U.S. agency.
Grant Gross |
13 Aug |
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After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group today retaliated by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous' embryonic social network.
Gregg Keizer |
09 Aug |
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The South Australian government has recorded a decrease in crime levels, thanks to its updated Crime Mapper website.
Lisa Banks |
08 Aug |
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To prevent online privacy breaches Australia needs a privacy watchdog rather than merely guidelines, a law lecturer has argued.
Lisa Banks |
08 Aug |
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Hackers with ties to Anonymous' AntiSec movement continued their assault on law enforcement by releasing 10 gigs of sensitive information from 56 law enforcement entities across the country.
Paul Suarez |
07 Aug |
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Anonymous on Sunday leaked the personal details of 7,000 police officers taken from the Missouri online training database, explaining via a You Tube video that it was retribution for recent raids.
Liam Tung |
01 Aug |
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The minister of justice, Brendan O’Connor, warned enterprises to remain vigilant on cybercrime, despite following the charge of a 25-year-old unemployed truck driver for alleged hacks on organisations, including the University of Sydney, Distribute.IT and NBN Co retail customer, Platform Networks.
Hamish Barwick |
28 Jul |
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Scotland Yard has arrested a 19 year-old man accused of being the person behind the handle of LulzSec spokesperson “Topiary”.
Liam Tung |
28 Jul |
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Prior to June hackers successfully breached “a series” of Australian merchants’ computers and gained customer card data, according to the Australian Federal Police.
Liam Tung |
28 Jul |
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Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation for the abrupt move.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
26 Jul |
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We've had to wait ten months, but Australia's Attorney-General Robert McLelland has finally released the public report on Cyber Storm III, the five-nation security exercise held 27 to 30 September 2010 and the largest of its kind. Why did he bother?
Stilgherrian |
25 Jul |
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Research by Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) reinforces what information security specialists have been saying forever. Most intrusions could be prevented by paying attention to the basics.
Stilgherrian |
23 Jul |
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High-profile hacker group LulzSec is claiming that the technology editor of UK newspaper The Guardian has been leaking information to them.
Stilgherrian |
22 Jul |
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Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Center in Bonn it was attacked by hackers and now officials are struggling to arrest all of those involved.
Nicolas Zeitler |
22 Jul |
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The Tasmanian government became the victim of a hacker today when a member of the group S4t4n1c_s0uls defaced an email sent to the state's media outlets at 9am.
Stilgherrian |
21 Jul |
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In the wake of the UK's News of the World voicemail scandal, the Australian government announced today that it will consult the public on legislating for a right to privacy.
Stilgherrian |
21 Jul |
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