Stories by: Andrew Hendry

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) in the US has turned the tables on Google by using the company's controversial Street View technology along with Google Earth to compile and make public a detailed dossier on a "top Google executive".

The Australian Federal Police is taking 10 Australian school children to London this week to participate in the International Youth Advisory Congress (IYAC), a world first congress giving kids a say in how they can be better protected online.

The spam and malware tsunami continues to cast a mounting shadow over the Internet this week.

After its largest public consultation exercise ever, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) expects that the single biggest reform to Australia's information privacy laws will be the proposal for a set of uniform and simplified principles for businesses, organisations and individuals.

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.

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.

The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce kicked off its Fraud Fortnight initiative this week, amid initial findings that Australians have dished out more than $700 million falling for online scams.

Barclays bank in the UK has found itself at the centre of another security scam, this time around someone posed as the bank's chairman and scammed £10,000 out of his personal account.

The BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost £500 after publishing his bank details in a British newspaper in a naive attempt to prove that the UK's largest ever data breach was a storm in a tea cup.

Both pro and anti-APEC supporters are using the social networking phenomenon to garner support and fight for the political allegiances of Australia's Facebook community.