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'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Anonymous has been know for years to be online terroristThe Anonymous group to me is a online terrorist organization, spamming, bullying, and hacking websites at any given time. Their acts are so random that it is hard to take many of their causes seriously. Sad to see...

Tags: SECURITY, Australian Government, distributed denial of service

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?

Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?Typical China moveC'mon, who is honestly surprised by any of this?And Americans still want to be "friends" with China.Will they never learn, China cannot be trusted in any way.If it enters their borders, it's theirsThat's been their motto since...

Tags: Solid Oak, Green Dam

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Australian government revs up license plate cameras

Australian government revs up license plate camerasSounds like a cool ideaso cool may implement it with regular citizens doing similar, keeping an eye on the eyes. Kewl.

Tags: Australian Government, camera

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Are you a VoIP security consultant? Want a job?

But you gotta live in Australia first. Not a bad thing, mind you.As ZDNet Australia reports today, seems like the Australian government's Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts DCITA wants to hire a consultant to advise them on potential threats to VoIP security.(Quick tangent: an agency that involves...

Tags: Australian Government, DCITA

Blog posts 2005-03-31

Additional Resources

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

More people, more pollution, right?

Population ControlWhat is it now, the big 'O' is going to sterilize the peasants so they don't reproduce? If you want to get the low IQ, better to castrate Windows admins.NT.*yawn**yawn* - yeah, okay, heard all that before. If you want to propose a solution (other than resorting to communism...

Tags: GFC, pollution, famine

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Schools Improve Educational Experience, Enhance Security With System Upgrade

The New South Wales Department of Education and Training decided to give high school students and teachers a computer as part of the Australian government's Digital Education Revolution initiative. To give students access to the latest technology, the department has begun upgrading its computers to the Windows 7 operating system....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Productivity, Government, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2009-10-22

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Microsoft targets cities, government agencies with carbon emissions accounting tool

Late last week, I posted a blog with a list of vendors that are producing carbon emissions and carbon portfolio management tools. Well, you can add another company to that list: Microsoft. Actually, Microsoft's latest play in the carbon emissions software space comes in partnership with an Australian company,...

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Carbon Emission, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Australia Child Care Benefit Calculator 2.0.2009 (Windows)

This FREE Child Care Benefit Calculator aims to help Australian parents to estimate their Child Care Benefit CCB percentage and how much CCB and Child Care Rebate CCR they can get from Australian Government. This Child Care Benefit Calculator estimates the Child Care Benefit Percentage (CCB %) based on no....

Tags: Children, Investment Property Calculator, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Authentication Mechanisms for Physical Access Control

The Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of IDentity PLAID is an authentication protocol that uses standards-based symmetric and asymmetric cryptography in a unique way to protect the communications between smart cards and terminal devices. Extremely fast and highly secure strong authentication of the smart card and data objects is possible without...

Tags: Smart Card, Authentication Mechanism, Access Control, Authentication, Smart Card Alliance, PLAID, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security

White papers 2009-10-01

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...

Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Why open source remains an ideological divide

Oh that was superb.Open Source.Stand for something! :)you are ideological from the startIf you want to remove ideology from the equation your clearly state your needs - functionnal, commercial and technical support ... etc, and compare available solutions.Price might be a key factor and it might not; availability of srouce...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

The Federal Communications Commission held a series of discussions about broadband polices, wiring rural locales and fostering innovation, but the elephant in the room was funding. The rough goal of the Feds' national broadband dreams is to wire everything in a high-speed access utopia. Radio waves, fixed...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Standards Australia - Aligning IT and the Business to Ensure Organisational Success

As the nation's peak non-government standards body, Standards Australia is responsible for the development, review and acceptance of standards, working on behalf of the Australian community. Standards Australia's IT environment had undergone a major change, with SA de-merging from a long-standing partnership with their technology services provider, SAI Global. The...

Tags: Information Technology, Sai Global Ltd., Standards, Adaptra, Standards Australia, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

£10bn national ID card scheme vs. £65m cuts in higher education

Two very controversial topics met in the middle today, when one potentially pointless national identity card scheme which would cost the UK taxpayer between £10-20bn according to the London School of Economics, and a cut of £65m in higher education at university level would cut a further 1,500 full time...

Tags: Education, Card, National ID Card, U.K., Identity Card, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Australian postal service bans lithium battery air lifts

Australian postal service bans lithium battery air liftsI'm sick and tired of all the snakes, er, Lions on this plane!Weird, as it is [i]very unusual[/i] for the Austrailian government to wildly [b]overreact[/b] to things.I'm glad I don't drive a Prius...Amusingly, do a web search for "Prius customer". The very...

Tags: Engineering, lithium battery, battery

Discussion threads 2009-07-30