This Week's Top Stories US prosecutors announced 'the biggest international money laundering prosecution in history' - that allegedly included $US36.9m deposited in Westpac accounts. | BEN GRUBB | There's something unusual about the motorcycle Denis Andzakovic likes to ride. | BEN GRUBB | Plans for $631 million building were stolen by someone in China when a computer system of a contractor was hacked. | Security 8:02am | The head of ASIO says he's satisfied the security of the organisation's new building will meet the very high standards required. | 10:26am | China says it does not need to steal US weapons technology to modernise its military because it is capable of developing its own. | 10:12am | Cyber security experts say Liberty Excahnge was just one among hundreds of anonymous internet payment systems. | JAMES W. MANNING | As undercover police aliases go, it was hardly convincing. Name: Joe Bogus. Address: 123 Fake Main Street, Completely Made Up City, New York. | OPINION: The Australian government needs to acknowledge espionage as a problem in cyberspace and take the necessary steps to mitigate such national security threats. | Shadow attorney-general George Brandis says an ABC report on cyber hacking of ASIO should not be dismissed as inaccurate. | TONY WRIGHT | In Canberra, as in every national capital, the spookery never stops. Only the technology changes. | Fears about the consequences of cyber attacks, internet hacking and id fraud are at their highest level in five years. | Public Sector Cleo Fraser and Kym Agius 5:08pm | Keeping its data in the clouds could save the Queensland government up to $17 million a year. | 3:03pm | Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has blamed Telstra and subcontractors for the exposure of asbestos as Telstra's pits are readied for the NBN. | Telstra says it will send a team of specialists to NBN sites around the country in response to fears that workers are being exposed to asbestos. | Petrina Berry | Qld's former health minister was unaware how complex the department's payroll requirements were when he was considering the system that failed. | Sylvia Pennington | Qld's CIO Peter Grant became the second high-profile mandarin to be moved aside by IT, Minister Ian Walker. | LIA TIMSON | Government agencies will move their public-facing websites to the cloud as part of the Federal Government's new push for cloud computing. | AMY REMEIKIS | The impacts on the state's health workers outweighed any possible gain from suing IT contractor IBM over the payroll system, former Premier Anna Bligh said. | | | Advertisement  Business IT Business Nasdaq has agreed to pay $US10 million, the largest penalty ever levied against a stock exchange, to settle civil charges. Business Mahesh Sharma | Melbourne start-up stakeholders have cried foul over the Sydney-centric board of a new Google-backed group that advocates on behalf of entrepreneurs. Software Matthew Hall | Collaboration between Australian and Californian companies is set to revolutionise the international wine industry using cloud-based software. CEBIT The leading technology experts behind President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign say we should not try to copy Silicon Valley Tech Hub Sylvia Pennington | As Geelong digested news of yet another tranche of blue-collar jobs losses, local technology firms say the area is quietly turning itself into a modest high-tech hub. Advertisement  |
