EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

The hacking of a Federal Government web site overnight has proven damaging to both sides of the internet filtering debate.

The attack again calls into question the ability of the Federal Government to censor the internet via a blacklist.

But for those opposed to internet censorship, the malicious hack also threatens any chance of constructive discourse with the Government.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | March 27, 2009

Opponents of the Federal Government's filtering scheme have condemned last night's hacking of one of its websites as damaging to their fight against censorship.

By Staff writers | March 27, 2009

VoIP provider Freshtel has announced it is moving to an email support-only model, days before opening its Firefly softphone to Mac users for the first time.

By Staff writers | March 27, 2009

Senator Conroy was forced into an embarrassing gaffe on the ABC's Q&A program last night, admitting that publishing the ACMA blacklist would defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.

By Staff writers | March 27, 2009

Queensland Police officers have reportedly used new investigative software that can crack peer-to-peer networks to arrest and charge a Brisbane man for sharing child exploitation materials online.

By Ry Crozier | March 27, 2009

Bytecard, which trades as Canberra ISP Netspeed, has been issued a formal warning for allegedly failing to cooperate with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) over "two continuing matters".

By Madeline Bennett | March 27, 2009

Despite the current emphasis on touch-screen functionality for everything from smartphones to table-top PCs, HP believes that touch computing will have only limited use for desktops and laptops.

By Iain Thomson | March 27, 2009

A new form of attack that installs a rootkit directly onto a computer's BIOS system would render antivirus software useless researchers have warned.

By Iain Thomson | March 27, 2009

Sun Microsystems has upgraded the Internet Archive to a capacity of 4.5 petabytes.

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