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Business to be wary of new anti-money laundering laws: Privacy commissioner

Business to be wary of new anti-money laundering laws: Privacy commissioner

Privacy commissioner Karen Curtis has urged businesses to consider the privacy of consumers when collecting personal information under the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF), amendments which came into effect yesterday.
Staff Writers Dec 13 2007 11:39AM Security
Reserve a seat through Ticketek online

Reserve a seat through Ticketek online

Online users will now be able to purchase their own seats and then hold a limited number of adjacent seats to be purchased within a set period of time without paying up-front costs, through Australian ticketing agency Ticketek.
Staff Writers Dec 13 2007 11:15AM Software
ASG wins $2 million Canberra contract

ASG wins $2 million Canberra contract

Perth-based IT services provider, ASG Group, has secured a $2 million tender with the ACT Government to merge nine separate instances of Oracle financial applications into one platform across 12 ACT agencies.
Staff Writers Dec 11 2007 2:37PM Strategy
Symantec releases Norton AV for Leopard

Symantec releases Norton AV for Leopard

Symantec has released Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac announcing it is compatible with Apple’s latest operating system Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Staff Writers Dec 11 2007 11:48AM Security
Nokia announces Open C challenge winners

Nokia announces Open C challenge winners

Nokia has announced the winners in the first Open C Challenge, a global contest for S60 mobile application development on Symbian OS smartphones, which it launched in July..
Staff Writers Dec 11 2007 7:03AM Software
Online love seekers warned of flirt-bots

Online love seekers warned of flirt-bots

Online security firm PC Tools has warned of a new software program developed in Russia, which flirts with people seeking relationships online in order to collect their personal data..
Staff Writers Dec 11 2007 7:03AM Security
Comms body wants quality of service for VoIP

Comms body wants quality of service for VoIP

Independent body, Communications Alliance has released two industry guidelines developed to assist operators meet Quality of Service (QoS) performance objectives when delivering VoIP services and Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Staff Writers Dec 5 2007 3:22PM Telco/ISP
Spammers shift to spreading malware

Spammers shift to spreading malware

Global spam volumes have doubled in the past year, showing a shift away from selling products towards spreading malware, according to new research.
Staff Writers Dec 5 2007 7:10AM Security
StayinFront streamlines The Salvation Army

StayinFront streamlines The Salvation Army

CRM application provider, StayinFront, has been selected by the Salvation Army to develop an integrated donor management solution for its Australian eastern territory fundraising operations.
Staff Writers Dec 4 2007 4:13PM Software
.au registers its one millionth domain name

.au registers its one millionth domain name

The .au Domain Administrator, has registered its one millionth .au domain name. Only five years ago the tally was close to 250,000.
Staff Writers Dec 3 2007 11:36AM Telco/ISP
Under half of IT managers using encryption

Under half of IT managers using encryption

IT security firm Check Point found that under half have deployed data encryption, and fewer than 40 per cent have any endpoint security deployed on PCs, laptops and mobile devices.
Staff Writers Dec 3 2007 10:40AM Security
Delivering broadband network top of Labor's list

Delivering broadband network top of Labor's list

While there are many things on Labor's Policy agenda, implementing a national broadband network to deliver minimum speeds of 12 Mbps to 98 percent of Australians and improving broadband services for all Australians is top of its list.
Staff Writers Nov 30 2007 3:34PM Hardware
Half of online shoppers 'disappointed'

Half of online shoppers 'disappointed'

Nearly half of the UK's shoppers have bought goods online which have turned out to be not what they ordered, according to research by a video review site.

Staff Writers Nov 30 2007 1:24PM Financial Services
NZ man, brains behind global botnet

NZ man, brains behind global botnet

The mastermind behind the 2006 DDoS attack on the Philadelphia University which infected 50,000 computers has been identified as an 18-year-old New Zealand man, nicknamed ‘AKILL’.
Staff Writers Nov 30 2007 12:17PM Security
Car responsible for Korean man’s death, not exploding mobile phone

Car responsible for Korean man’s death, not exploding mobile phone

Yesterday’s reports about a Korean man being killed by an exploding mobile phone, have turned out to be a case of accidental murder.
Staff Writers Nov 30 2007 11:53AM Oddware
New botnet as powerful as Storm worm revealed

New botnet as powerful as Storm worm revealed

After a year in development, a botnet touted as the ‘Celebrity Spam Gang’ has reached similar distribution capabilities as the notorious Storm worm and is responsible for 20 percent of all spam circulation, warned Marshal.
Staff Writers Nov 29 2007 12:02PM Security
Email banter behind data explosion

Email banter behind data explosion

Companies are failing to identify the real culprit behind a lack of storage space and the huge volumes of data being hoarded, according to a new report..
Staff Writers Nov 29 2007 7:17AM Storage
CCC calls for reform of Aussie telecommunications

CCC calls for reform of Aussie telecommunications

According to CCC, the first item on the Rudd government’s agenda should be addressing the inflationary pressure that is causing Australian telecommunications prices to skyrocket.
Staff Writers Nov 29 2007 6:53AM Telco/ISP
Social networks: To ban or not to ban?

Social networks: To ban or not to ban?

IT security teams across the globe must be getting used to requests to ban employee access to certain websites.
Staff Writers Nov 28 2007 3:52PM Security
Consumers demand free online content

Consumers demand free online content

Users are demanding more rich media as they access increasing amounts of digital content on a range of devices, but research shows that they are still reluctant to pay for the content.
Staff Writers Nov 28 2007 2:20PM Software

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