Australian governments implementing smart card systems for public transport must include contactless payment methods in their roll-out, according to Visa’s ANZ general manager Chris Clark — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks.
The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office. The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour. After that the website started to respond again slowly, with occasional outages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an effort to reduce illicit file-sharing, draft legislation was passed in Finland last week which will require Internet service providers to send letters to customers suspected of unauthorized sharing. The warnings will be initiated by copyright owners, but at no stage will Internet subscribers’ identities be compromised. A three strikes-style regime is not on the agenda — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Broadband Network will give the government an extraordinary opportunity to push its internet censorship agenda on Australians, a cyberspace policy expert says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
State Labor has stepped up its campaign against the surging Greens, targeting the party’s candidate for Melbourne, prominent barrister Brian Walters, and seeking to smear him as anti-Semitic and an unscrupulous lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed data retention law and called for an inquiry to ensure data is not mishandled if the plan goes ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Greens have thrown their support behind Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey’s push to rein in the banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to foreign countries if it could lead to torture even though terrorist activity
could be the end result, the head of the agency said.
Sir John Sawers, responding to persistent allegations of collusion in torture by the security and intelligence agencies, described the potential to save lives but said the risk of human rights abuse threw up real, constant, operational dilemmas
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Leading members of Germany’s foreign ministry were deeply involved in the Holocaust, according to an official report published yesterday which blew apart decades of diplomats’ denial they had played an important role in the mass murder of European Jews — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Government has introduced a bill to legally recognise the intended parents of children born through altruistic surrogacy — including same-sex couples — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The legalisation of gay marriage is an inevitability and should be supported by Labor, according to a meeting of the party’s national Left yesterday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran’s hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Visitors have been ordered to reveal illegal pornography to customs officers in a move which has been criticised as totally confusing
and an invasion of privacy.
Justice Minister Brendan O’Connor said that illegal material must be declared on arrival, watering down recent rules that asked for all pornography to be revealed.
But he said anyone who is not sure whether they have illegal pornography should reveal it just in case. The revamped rule is outlined on arrival cards which are filled in by travellers coming to Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has tipped $1.2 million into locally-developed quantum cryptography technology, which will be available to buy in a year.
The second-generation technology, called the Quantum Link Encryptor (QLE), promises to dramatically lower the cost of unbreakable
quantum cryptography systems by using off-the-shelf telecommunications equipment, which is possible thanks to the use of a finely-tuned laser that transmits data — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s controversial ISP filter plan faces further delays as a meeting central to the policy is postponed yet again — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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