Julian Bajkowski

Governments, after years of fruitless hysteria, are shifting their national security focus away from the threat of cyber attacks launched by terrorist groups to enhancing eavesdropping capabilities to monitor such groups, according to Gartner Inc.'s research director for information security and risk, Rich Mogull.

The groundswell of vendor support for Linux in the enterprise continued this week, with Novell Inc.'s latest moves.

IT managers can breathe a little easier in the knowledge that corporate data held or transmitted by hosted ISP services is to be off limits to private investigators under a Cybercrime Code of Practice developed by the Internet Industry Association (IIA) that will be ratified at the end of this month.

In a move that will bring little joy to battered outsourcers, the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has confirmed it's running an internal bid for a tender to provide network management and support services for the Corporate Services and Infrastructure Group (CSIG).

Independent contractors, recruiters, and contract services and management companies (CMSC) are feeling the heat under an Australian government crackdown on tax and immigration scams in the IT industry.

The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is to receive additional funding totalling A$300,000 (US$204,000) to enforce new anti-spam legislation that is before parliament.

IT professionals at times are their own worst enemy when it comes to steering the enterprise to success, according to AAPT Ltd. chief executive officer Bob Hennessy.

To beat the burgeoning illegal trade of card skimming, banks need faster review capabilities of ATMs point-of-sale and remote banking transactions, a Canadian banking executive told an OzTUG (Australian Tandem User Group) conference in Sydney late July.