Security News

ALLOWING companies to intercept their employees' emails without their consent, as proposed by the Federal Government, would do little to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from a potentially devastating attack from hackers and terrorists.

A Chinese-born US engineer has been jailed for 24 years, after being convicted of trying to export sensitive information to China.

Hackers are paying top dollar on international blackmarkets for computers from Australia that have been unknowingly hijacked and infected with spyware.

In The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google, Nicholas Carr argues that we're on the verge of "the death of the IT department".

A famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 showed two dogs at a computer, with one saying to the other, "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." That may no longer be true.

Swiss bank Julius Baer, facing an international backlash, defended on Thursday taking legal action to shut down a website that published what the site said were details of secret bank accounts linked to tax- avoidance schemes.

NSW police and the state government have issued a warning to computer users about seduction scams aimed at stealing money or identities.

Four people were arrested in the United States on Monday on charges of spying for China in two separate cases, including one involving the US space shuttle.

Chinese computer hackers have launched targeted attacks on classified Australian government computer networks.