A little-noticed provision in the new anti-terrorism act imposes US cyber crime laws on other nations, whether they like it or not. And in related news, thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime last week. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe member states, plus the US, Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at the international Convention on Cybercrime meeting in Budapest
Tempers have reached fever pitch in the local domain name game, with NetRegistry’s CEO Larry Bloch describing marketing practices of certain competitors as a deceptively misleading, sneaky, slimy attempt to mislead the public
. An opinion much supported by other domain name resellers from across the country
Search engine spiders crawling the Web are increasingly stumbling upon passwords, credit card numbers, classified documents and even computer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. The problem is not new, security analysts say: Ever since search robots began indexing the Web years ago, Web site administrators have found pages not meant for public consumption exposed in search results
Australia is under pressure to establish a national cybercrime centre similar to those in the UK and US. Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty says cyber crime is costing some US$3 trillion — AU$5.8 trillion — a year world-wide
Earth-orbiting listening posts are on active duty in the United States-led war on terrorism. Signal-seeking spacecraft not only play a critical role in eavesdropping on nations from on high, but also within the borders of the US itself
A court date was set Monday in the lawsuit brought by British Telecommunications against US-based Prodigy Communications Corp for patent infringement through the ISP’s unauthorised use of the hyperlink
The world’s biggest luddite, Senator Alston has retained his position as Communications and IT minister for the Australian government following a cabinet reshuffle today — despite opposition from within his party and widespread rumours that he wanted to step down
Disgruntled employees have always posed dangers for businesses, but in the information age, that hazard has become far more sinister. GreenGrocer.com.au, a leading Australian e-tailer, learned this the hard way after its systems were violated by a trusted worker
The Office of Government Commerce is threatening to dump Microsoft, citing increased licence fees that would cost the UK £60 million a year, representing an increase of 50-200%
Craft activities are not commonly associated with personal computers, yet for those who like to make paper crafts, or even design their own fabrics, a computer can be a very useful tool
Somalia‘s only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links. Both companies have stated they are not linked to terrorists. Along with denying all internet access to Somalis, the closures have severely restricted international telephone lines and shut down vitally needed money transfer facilities
Telstra cable users in Victoria and ADSL customers nationally suffered the repercussions of a denial of service attack last night, with services unavailable for up to four hours
Companies with servers running Microsoft’s database application should watch out for a new hacker tool that scans and then infects systems, network security experts have warned
A fire-damaged painting by Claude Monet could be restored to its former glory, thanks to a technology designed to simulate the ravages of low-Earth orbit on spacecraft. Conservators at the institute are talking to space chemists at NASA’s Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, after hearing of their success in removing an overzealous art lover’s lipstick from an Andy Warhol painting. Their trick? They vaporise contaminants by blasting them with oxygen
Bandwidth isn’t cheap, and — despite the pre-election rhetoric — private schools don’t have money to waste. Caulfield Grammar School’s 80 boarders have been contributing significantly to the load by using peer-to-peer applications such as Napster and Gnutella. Now the school is cracking down
A Hong Kong company hopes to sell signal jamming technology, previously used by the military to thwart lethal missiles, to block annoying mobile phone calls in places such as hospitals, places of worship and restaurants
A computer so small that a trillion of its kind fit into a test tube has been developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The nanocomputer consists of DNA and DNA-processing enzymes, both dissolved in a liquid held in a test tube
Tired of all that Spam? Try invoicing them for wasting your time, while it probably won’t eliminate Spam, it sure makes the parasites think twice about doing it again
A hands-on hacker course developed by US-based Foundstone ended up fully subscribed in Australia, with local course operator eSec looking to expand into Asia Pacific next year
Astronomy‘s next great discovery may be found not by telescope, but instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur. In fact, astronomers are already pulling new findings from old data, the start of what some say is a looming change in how science gets done
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