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  SOPA on hold, PIPA may be weakened as Congress revisits the bills

  As major technology websites such as Reddit and Wikipedia prepare to go dark this Wednesday in protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the similar Protect Intellectual Privacy Act (PIPA) act in the Senate, there are signs that the protests from the technology industry are causing Congress to rethink the two bills, which is supported by the entertainment industry and a variety of business groups whose goods are often counterfeited or pirated. The technology sector -- outside of online businesses -- has been conflicted, with the Business Software Alliance initially supporting SOPA but then withdrawing that support.

• Stupid hacker tricks: Exploits gone bad

  If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.

• OAIC should have more power: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre

  The UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre has called on the Federal Government to expand the Office of the Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) powers to better protect personal information and privacy online.

• Cyber-thieves target popular sites: report

  All it can take is one click on a link posted by a Facebook friend and you're infected.

• AusCERT 2011: Eugene Kaspersky calls for Internet Interpol

  With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an 'Internet Interpol' and better cooperation between international law enforcement agencies are needed if criminals are to be curtailed in the future, Kaspersky Labs founder and security expert, Eugene Kaspersky, has argued.

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  AusCERT 2011: Police lack tools to combat cybercrime

  Police officers are behind the eight ball when it comes to dealing with cybercrime, a Queensland Police Service officer has said.

• SA Police turn to distributed review system to handle cyber crime

  An uptick in cyber crime in South Australia has forced the state’s police service move to adopt a distributed review system to help its investigators work on more electronic crime cases more quickly.

• Vic Police database project faces $100 million blowout

  Victoria Police has suspended attempts to replace its criminal history and crime reporting database LEAP, ahead of a redevelopment of the business case for the project.

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  Real-world NCIS pushes geographical data use

  For fans of crime investigation show NCIS, the real-life equivalent of computer whiz Abby might be a let-down. There's no quirky comebacks, no eerie green glow emanating from the monitor and definitely no instances of "double hacking".

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  Sophos slams Facebook over security measures

  Security vendor Sophos has taken social networking giant Facebook to task over the rise of cyber crime on the site.

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  EMC: RSA SecurID info swiped via sophisticated hack attack

  EMC issued a warning today that hackers have stolen information about its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication that could be used by cybercriminals to more easily breach customers' systems,

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  ISPs to retain data for three months if Australia joins European Cybercrime Convention

  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be required to retain the browsing history of their customers for up to three months if the Australian Government accedes to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.

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  Australian cyber crime investigation skills lacking says Swinburne professor

  A high number of local cyber crime incidents are not investigated due to a lack of eForensic experts according to Swinburne University ICT dean Professor Leon Sterling.

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  Commonwealth Bank served as training ground for global phishing attacks

  When international organised crime groups launched the first wide-scale phishing attacks in 2003, their targets weren’t the United States or the United Kingdom but actually the customers of one of Australia's major banks, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, according to a cyber crime researcher.

• New cyber crime intelligence service launched

  A new service to identify enterprise vulnerabilities to cyber-crime attacks is being launched by RSA, the security division of EMC.