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Is Your Company eDiscovery Ready? | Business 2 Community. Crypto Experts Called On To Crack Cyberspy Tool's Encryption. NSW Police Force seeks own social network. The NSW Police Force is seeking expressions of interest from the IT industry for an internal social network that will allow police officers to communicate with each other and promote internal networking.

At the moment, NSW Police's internal communications are limited to a monthly magazine, reference material on its intranet and a gated email system that is so restricted that not even the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner have the ability to easily send all-staff emails without authorisation. Following a trial of an "innovation forum", NSW Police found a strong interest among police officers to comment and vote on issues brought forward by co-workers, even though the forum was not promoted to staff. There are some significant challenges for interested parties to overcome, however.

Security has been considered to be "of paramount importance", with NSW Police recognising that the social network may result in certain individuals making the mistake of leaking information. Airport VPN Targeted By Citadel Trojan. Daily Cuppa: patents, TrapWire and Apple-Samsung. It's hump day, we're halfway through the week and we've got all the information on TrapWire, Apple-Samsung and patents to get your Wednesday started. Have you been wondering why WikiLeaks has been down, off and on, for a few days? Or have you seen the hashtag #trapwire on Twitter and not known what it's all about? ZDNet's Zack Whittaker has put together an in-depth FAQ that will hopefully answer all of your questions about this surveillance software that works in conjunction with CCTV, among other things, to predict criminal activity.

If there's one thing that Apple and Samsung could probably agree on, it's that their ongoing patent dispute has been dragging on forever, and will continue to do so for quite a while yet. Although we thought we'd get a month off in Australia, it appears that an interlocutory hearing has been scheduled for later today. In the meantime, if you want to catch up on the US case, here is a rundown of what has happened thus far.

Could The New Air Traffic Control System Be Hacked? – NPR (blog) Government Computer News: Latest tech product reviews, mobile technology updates and security news for federal IT, state IT and local government IT -- Government Computer News. How to respond to the inevitable security breach – GCN.com. Microsoft patches critical security holes in Windows, Office, IE – Computerworld Australia. Journal Article Online. What is a Pc Forensics Pro Witness? | articlereference.net. Adobe Security Bulletins Posted « Adobe Product Security Incident … Backtrack5R3 includes Arduino hacking tools | Dangerous Prototypes. The Backtrack5 crew has just announced Release 3 of their well known penetration testing Linux distro.

Backtrack5R3 not only includes bug-fixes, but the addition of over 60 new tools – several of which were released in … See on dangerousprototypes.com.