Abstract: In early 2012, 76 heavily armed police conducted a raid on a house in Auckland, New Zealand. The targets were Kim Dotcom, a German national with a NZ residency visa, and several colleagues affiliated with Megaupload, an online subscription-based peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing facility. The alleged offences involved facilitating unlawful file sharing and United...

This audit examined the clinical information and communications technology (ICT) systems of eight public health services in Victoria to see whether they were appropriately planned and implemented and whether expected outcomes and benefits are being realised. It examined the Health SMART clinical ICT systems implemented at four health services and clinical ICT systems implemented at...

Employees who telework one to three days per week – so-called ‘hybrid teleworkers’ - are more productive than workers who do little or no telework, according to a new study jointly undertaken between the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) and AUT University's Work Research Institute in New Zealand. The research, which surveyed more...

This study found that 29% of the most viral content on Twitter during the Boston bombing crisis were rumors and fake content. Abstract Online social media has emerged as one of the prominent channels for dissemination of information during real world events. Malicious content is posted online during events, which can result in damage, chaos...

This briefing is ASPI’s distillation of the thoughts of a group of prominent members of the Australian cybersecurity community. We held a workshop in Canberra on the key panel sessions that will take place at the Seoul Conference on Cyberspace, South Korea, in October 2013. Workshop participants included the Australian Government departments with a stake...