Saturday | 4 July, 2009
Stories by: Darren Pauli
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Biometrics sweep NSW gaols 17/06/2009 14:56:00
The NSW Department of Corrective Services will implement mandatory iris scanning and fingerprinting across its 32 prisons to help verify visitor identities. - +
Busted: the NSW Police crime fighting toolkit 02/06/2009 07:50:00
NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems. - +
Defence trials sneaky cameras 28/05/2009 10:39:00
The Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) is running facial recognition trials which will underpin biometric initiatives across the Department of Defence, Immigration and new smartcard driver's licences. - +
Aussie govt considers quantum leap in secure comms 03/03/2009 13:27:00
Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution. - +
Security networks send spammers underground 28/01/2009 12:55:00
Botnets will employ more obfuscated control techniques including the use of peer-to-peer networks during 2009, according to security researchers, following the [[artid:556517764|McColo datacentre take-down|new]] last year. - +
Clumsy staff more dangerous than hackers: survey 23/10/2008 12:41:00
Up to 79 percent of the 156 Australian IT managers and C-level executives responding to a recent survey have suffered IT data breaches. - +
Google blacklists ATUG Web site 07/10/2008 13:46:00
Hackers may have hit the Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) Web site, according to Google which has placed security threat warnings across all pages displayed in searches. - +
AMP, Commonwealth Bank choose homegrown security 12/09/2008 08:22:00
Wealth management firm AMP has rejected established auditing and security frameworks for a procedure list hand-drawn by its own head of security. - +
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05/09/2008 13:40:00
A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world. - +
Apple gets bruised in vulnerability report 05/08/2008 18:42:56
Apple has taken the place of Microsoft for disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor, according to an IBM security report. - +
Small ISPs at risk to DNS flaw 01/08/2008 12:34:00
Customers of small Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may be at risk of online fraud, following the industry's lax response to securing against the recently discovered Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning flaw.
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