Stories by: Howard Dahdah

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has issued a practical guide to businesses and government agencies showing them how best to respond in the event of a personal information security breach.

The Convention on Cybercrime is the work of the Council of Europe and is aimed at facilitating international cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes. Since the Convention came into being in 2001, the COE has been working to address the growing international concern over the threats posed by hacking and other computer-related crimes.

The Australian Taxation Office is on top of its game when it comes to information security, an independent investigation has found.

A telephone phishing scam, which purports to come from the NSW Police Force, has surfaced in NSW over the past 24 hours.

The UK government has accused the Chinese of hacking into the computer systems of some of its leading companies, according reports published by the English press over the weekend.

The Westpac bank's Web site has been out of action for most of Tuesday, but the company has dismissed suggestions it is the result of a denial of service attack

[[ArtId:1592845665|Last month]], Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and a founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and PHP Security Response Team (which he has since left), launched his Month of PHP Bugs as a way of improving the security of PHP by outing flaws in its source code.

PHP bug hunter Stefan Esser says he feels vindicated after his successful Month of PHP Bugs project which ran through March.

Hackers have targeted the web site of the ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope.

Complexity in software design needs to be eliminated otherwise computing's future era will be no more secure than applications in the current era.

A new of piece software promises to provide an instant audit of source code, notifying developers of insecure coding practices and vulnerabilities.