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News, Security - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 16:49 - 23 Comments
Top Gillard IT security czar has never heard of Tor
news One of the top public servants involved in advising on national Australian cyber-security policy has admitted the division she helps lead was “not familiar” with the decade-old Tor software frequently used by activists and those seeking secure communications to protect their anonymity when using the Internet.
Tor is a package of free software and an associated network on the Internet which routes Internet traffic through a large set of complex network nodes online, encrypting and decrypting the communicated data along the way multiple times. The process, reminiscent of the layers of an onion for which the Tor project (‘The Onion Router’) was named, is complex and has the net effect of blocking the communicated Internet data from being eavesdropped on by law enforcement or other organisations. It was first developed in 2002 and has become popular in the decade since.
In May Greens Communications Spokesperson, Senator Scott Ludlam, filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Foreign Affairs and trade, seeking any documents pertaining to the Tor Project, which oversees development of the Tor system, and two individuals associated with the project — developer Jacob Appelbaum and project founder Roger Dingledine.
Ludlam’s interest in any documents associated with the Tor Project and the pair stems from the fact that both have recently visited Australia — Appelbaum most recently in January 2012, and Dingledine in May 2010.
In a letter to Ludlam on 28 May, DFAT wrote that it had failed to identify any documents relevant to Ludlam’s Freedom of Information Request. However, it did highlight a previously released cable in January 2012 from Australia’s Embassy in Washington to the department in Canberra that noted that the US Department of Justice had subpoenaed social networking site Twitter for information relating to Appelbaum, as part of a wider search relating to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and suspected Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning. Continue…
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Future IT project fail?
NSW Police gets COPS replacement fundingIf you’ve been following state government IT in Australia for as long as I have, it starts to get easier and easier to see major IT project failures before they even happen. And NSW Police just popped up a doozy.
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Is IBM retrenching 1,500 Aussie staff?
If reports are to be believed, and they’re flooding in from both mainstream media outlets with claimed staff sources, as well as online staff message boards, the company could be in the process of making some 1,500 Australian staff redundant, which would probably be about 10 percent of its local workforce.
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Attanasio takes NSW RMS CIO role
Former Customs CIO Joe Attanasio takes up the equivalent role at NSW Roads and Maritime Services.
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Kundra reforms hit Queensland:
State Govt pledges ‘cloud first’, IT dashboard
The Queensland Government has committed to adopting two of the most radical measures implemented by then-US Government chief information officer Vivek Kundra in the Obama administration’s first term, as it grapples with a government-wide ICT Audit released last week that starkly demonstrates the potential for further disasters akin to the Queensland Health payroll catastrophe.
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Questions raised about Post IT transformation
Australia Post has issued a statement staunchly defending the progress of its IT transformation program, Building Future Ready IT, as questions are being raised about some aspects of the project’s ability to meet its goals on time and while avoiding significant risks associated with any such corporate technology renewal effort.
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Qld Govt depts home to botnets
Anew audit report coming out of Queensland has sharply criticised a number of major Queensland Government departments (including the IT Minister’s own Department of Science, Information Technology Innovation and the Arts, the Department of Transport and Main roads and the Treasury, as well as the Brisbane City Council) for having zero plans to deal with IT security issues. Surprise!
