ASIO accidently bugged itself says expanding spy watchdog

New surveillance powers increase workload.

16 October, 2014

Plain English reboot for government cyber security outreach

Techno jibber jabber made redundant

26 August, 2014

Kaspersky warns on new ransomware faking AFP, ACC, ACMA online interventions

Malware creators impersonate law enforcement and regulators

28 July, 2014

Australian security software spend beats global trend

Gartner cautions about democratisation of security threats as IBM claws its way back into the top three vendors.

11 June, 2014

New challenge to council CCTV use

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski A fresh row over how councils can use video surveillance and CCTV in New South Wales has erupted after moves by Local Government Minister Don Page to relax privacy regulations governing cameras encountered resistance from the Greens in the state’s upper house. The Greens have moved a motion that […]

28 May, 2013

Big biometric upgrade for Immigration

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has gone to market for a substantial upgrade of its biometric identification systems that use facial recognition and fingerprinting systems to electronically check-up on prospective entrants to Australia. Tender documents released to the market reveal that Immigration authorities are seeking to buy commercial-off-the-shelf technology that will […]

15 October, 2012

Building security culture at SIG

The annual Security in Government (SIG) Conference, hosted by the Attorney-General’s Department, is to be held from 3 – 5 September at the National Convention Centre, Canberra. The SIG Conference, now in its 24th year, began as a meeting of Agency Security Advisers in 1987. Today it has grown to become one of the leading […]

29 August, 2012

Securing content management

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has selected Australian-based Objective Corporation to implement its next generation enterprise content management platform, Objective ECM 8.   Objective was selected for the three-year, $5 million contract (with the option for expansion to a total of nine years) after a public tender process which began in early 2011. […]

23 April, 2012

People are still ‘weakest link’ in security defence

By Jo Stewart-Rattray, director of information security for national accounting firm RSM Bird Cameron; the international; the international vice president for global information security governance industry association ISACA; and chair at ISACA’s leadership development committee; member of its COBIT for Security Taskforce.   While public sector agencies confront security risks from the cloud to social […]

3 February, 2012

Contributions to elevated threat levels at hospitals

By Layne Hesse and Rod Sweet from Sinclair Knight Merz   Recent incidents such as the attack on a nurse in Blacktown hospital have drawn renewed attention to the issue of hospital security.   While hospital emergency departments have historically been the focal point for security, the emergence of drug and mental health issues combined […]

17 August, 2011

Councils key to community-based crime prevention

By Lilia Guan The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a technical and background paper on ‘Model Performance Framework for Community Based Crime Prevention’.   The paper looks at a number of performance frameworks to help crime prevention organisations, communities and local governments measure the implementation of crime prevention programs.   According to the […]

11 February, 2011

New report on cyber security

Attorney-General Robert McClelland welcomed the release of a new report on the Australia’s response to the evolving cyber security threat. The report, Optimising Australia’s Response to the Cyber Challenge, was launched by the Kokoda Foundation at the National Press Club on Friday. It was co-sponsored by the Attorney-General’s Department. According to the report, cyber security […]

7 February, 2011

NT Police to increase CCTV presence

By Lilia Guan   NT Police are in the planning stages of expanding CCTV into smaller suburbs and filling blind spots in existing areas.   Shane Moten, system administrator at joint emergency services communications centre, NT Police, said CCTV has enabled them to provide another level of policing.   “The benefits are in incident detection […]

9 December, 2010

Watchdog cautions Customs on ‘intrusive’ searches

By Angela Dorizas The Commonwealth Ombudsman, Allan Asher, has received complaints from travellers about the "unfair and unnecessarily intrusive" behaviour of Customs officers. Mr Asher today warned that coercive powers of Customs officers must be lawful and reasonable. “These coercive powers allow the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to question international travellers, search baggage, copy documents […]

8 December, 2010