Alarmed by the broad range of powers being given to Commonwealth security agencies under the Federal Government's Cybercrime Bill 2001, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) last week presented a submission to parliament.
In a deal worth more than $1 million, Baltimore Technologies Australia will provide public key infrastructure (PKI) as part of an upgrade of the Department of Defence's communications network.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia today moved to reassure its customers that no hacker had accessed their accounts.
Canberra-based security vendor 90East has won a deal to provide a government information security system known as 'FedLink'.
Disgruntled customers at Singapore Airlines claim they have been unable to log on to the company's Australian Web site for two weeks.
Data security software company Kaspersky Labs has announced the latest version of its antivirus product for Unix and Linux operating systems.
NSW Parliament has outsourced its data network management to AAPT under a three-year contract.
Revenge on company networks in recent months appears to show a direct correlation between IT staff layoffs and internal security breaches.
Baltimore Technologies is assessing staffing levels in the Asia-Pacific region as part of a global restructuring,
with full details to be formally announced in August.
The IT security industry has been scathing in its attacks this week on the Cybercrime Bill 2001, labelling it "draconian and dangerous". Under the bill, which proposes seven new computer offences carrying jail terms of up to 10 years, it is illegal to possess hacker toolkits, scanners and virus code.
In typical pre-election style Federal Opposition leader Kim Beazley today launched Labor's IT policy platform Knowledge Nation with plenty of bold promises.
IT Minister Senator Richard Alston has announced legislation to streamline the telecommunications access regime under the Trade Practices Act 1974.
On the rebound from the financial hit the company took last fiscal year BMC Software executives met with Australian CIOs this week to reinforce its new 'service management' strategy in the enterprise space.
A motion was passed in the Senate last night to investigate the outsourcing of the Australian Custom's Service (ACS) IT.
More than $8 billion worth of IT projects in Australia's defence industry are planned over the next decade.
Speaking at the Defence and Industry 2001 conference today, Defence Minister Peter Reith forecast good times for the defence industry with the Government planning to spend $50 billion on new equipment.