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ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

An updated version of the ACMA blacklist has proven too popular for the servers at whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, which has been out of action for most of the weekend.
Brett Winterford Mar 23 2009 2:51PM Security
ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

An updated version of the ACMA blacklist has proven too popular for the servers at whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, which has been out of action for most of the weekend.
Staff Writers Mar 23 2009 6:12AM Telco/ISP
Doubts expressed over ACMA blacklist leak

Doubts expressed over ACMA blacklist leak

Doubts continue to mount over the authenticity of a leaked list of URL's purported to be ACMA's blacklist of banned websites.
Brett Winterford Mar 19 2009 1:13PM Telco/ISP
Wikipedia removes ACMA-censored link

Wikipedia removes ACMA-censored link

Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to an ACMA-blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of ACMA's Wikipedia entry.
Brett Winterford Mar 19 2009 10:37AM Security
Wikipedia removes ACMA-censored link

Wikipedia removes ACMA-censored link

Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to an ACMA-blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of ACMA's Wikipedia entry.
Brett Winterford Mar 19 2009 6:08AM Telco/ISP
Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator

Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator

The Wikipedia page for the Australian Communications and Media Authority holds a link to a site on the authority's blacklist in a further test to the regulator's ability to censor the internet.
Brett Winterford Mar 18 2009 3:20PM Security
Comms Alliance submits Mobile Premium Services Code

Comms Alliance submits Mobile Premium Services Code

Under increasing pressure from the ACCC and ACMA, industry self-regulator Communications Alliance has finally released a code of conduct around the provision of Mobile Premium Services.
Brett Winterford Mar 18 2009 3:16PM Telco/ISP
Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator

Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator

The Wikipedia page for the Australian Communications and Media Authority holds a link to a site on the authority's blacklist in a further test to the regulator's ability to censor the internet.
Brett Winterford Mar 18 2009 10:08AM Telco/ISP
Westpac re-calls customers without consent

Westpac re-calls customers without consent

Westpac has been formally warned for breaching the Do Not Call register after it called customers that had asked not to be contacted about its products or services.
Staff Writers Mar 16 2009 5:44PM Telco/ISP
Internet filtering ineffective in fight against terror

Internet filtering ineffective in fight against terror

Cross "fighting terrorism" off the list of reasons Senator Stephen Conroy wants to introduce mandatory ISP-level Internet Filtering.
Brett Winterford Mar 12 2009 1:52PM Security
Australians need more protection online: ACMA

Australians need more protection online: ACMA

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has said that Australian Internet users “need to be more pro-active in protecting themselves online” in a report released today.
Staff Writers Mar 11 2009 6:27AM Security
Australians need more protection online: ACMA

Australians need more protection online: ACMA

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has said that Australian internet users “need to be more pro-active in protecting themselves online” in a report released today.
Staff Writers Mar 10 2009 1:41PM Security
Fixed-line decline led by young people

Fixed-line decline led by young people

Aussies aged 18 to 24 are choosing mobile over fixed line phones when they move out of home for the first time, an ACMA report shows.
Staff Writers Mar 6 2009 3:21PM Telco/ISP
Expert advocates new regulator for NBN

Expert advocates new regulator for NBN

One of Australia's pre-eminent telecommunications experts today recommended the Federal Government consider forming a new regulator charged exclusively with arbitrating access issues for the proposed National Broadband Network.
Brett Winterford Mar 3 2009 2:28PM Telco/ISP
MWC: Telstra weighs in on spectrum issue

MWC: Telstra weighs in on spectrum issue

Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has called on the Australian Government to provide clarity on how much radio spectrum might be opened up to advance the local mobile broadband industry.
Brett Winterford Feb 23 2009 3:28PM Telco/ISP
NSW primary schools to get ACMA cybersafety program

NSW primary schools to get ACMA cybersafety program

The Australian Communications and Media Authority will extend its primary school-focused Cybersmart Detectives program to NSW as part of today’s Safer Internet Day ‘celebrations’.
Staff Writers Feb 10 2009 9:54AM Security
NSW primary schools to get ACMA cybersafety program

NSW primary schools to get ACMA cybersafety program

The Australian Communications and Media Authority will extend its primary school-focused Cybersmart Detectives program to NSW as part of tomorrow’s Safer Internet Day ‘celebrations’.
Staff Writers Feb 9 2009 3:22PM Security
Passive RFID users granted four-watt reprieve

Passive RFID users granted four-watt reprieve

Ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID devices up to four watts have been approved for use by the Australian Communications and Media Authority following four years of successful tests.
Staff Writers Jan 16 2009 2:05PM Hardware
Optus cops $110,000 spam fine after talks break down

Optus cops $110,000 spam fine after talks break down

Optus Networks has been handed an $110,000 fine for allegedly breaching the Spam Act after attempts to reach an enforceable undertaking with the communications regulator failed.
Staff Writers Jan 14 2009 1:40PM Telco/ISP
ACMA takes alleged SMS spammers to court

ACMA takes alleged SMS spammers to court

In a local first, the Australian Communications and Media Authority said it has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court in Brisbane against several companies over unsolicited SMS spam.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:06PM Telco/ISP

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