Former CSIRO manager faces court over alleged $400,000 spending spree
A former CSIRO manager today faced a Canberra court for allegedly fraudulently using government funds to make more than $400,000 worth of personal purchases.
A former CSIRO manager today faced a Canberra court for allegedly fraudulently using government funds to make more than $400,000 worth of personal purchases.
A 37-year-old Seattle man has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service attacks that hit Australian businesses in 2015.
The Australian Federal Police Commissioner has blamed “human error” for a breach of metadata access laws that occurred during an investigation into the source of a leak to a journalist.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has plans to replace its in-car computing system with tablets under a project called Interactive Constable on Patrol System (ICOPS).
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.
The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) and Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have welcomed the government's announcement of a public consultation into introducing a statutory right to privacy.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is to overhaul its data and systems security shortly, with the deployment of new organisation-wide antivirus and anti-malware suites.
The Federal Attorney-General department’s proposed data retention regime would bolster evidence used to combat cybercrime, but would not add significant information that isn’t currently accessible.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP), in conjunction with mutual banking sector industry body Abacus, have outlined their top tips for safe online shopping this Christmas.
Local authorities have refused to indicate whether any action will be taken against the Australian programmer who claimed to spread the world’s first iPhone virus.
Threats from protest group Anonymous to disable the website of the Australian Prime Minister appear to have rung true.
The protection of the individual is the primary function of personal health care data and the tail of health administration and research must not be permitted to wag the dog of personal health care, according to an Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) policy position document.