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Mobile operators get fixed price spectrum renewal in $3b Government windfall

The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.

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NBN threatens to put e-crime on steroids

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In addition up to 100 websites a day in Australia were now hosting malware with 80 per cent of malware infections arising from so-called drive-by-downloads where people visited infected websites and unsuspectingly picked up a malware payload.

He warned that at present; “Law enforcement is not functioning in the area we work in and we have a misplaced trust in the technology.”

There was also a lack of comprehensive monitoring at the national level.

“Do we have a national approach to detecting attacks? No,” Ingram said, adding that even AusCERT was only able to track attacks in an ad hoc fashion.

He was concerned that the; “Whole e-crime thing is just getting out of control. We need a properly funded and structured capacity to track this in place before the NBN is rolled out.”

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