A large number of Australian companies providing outsourcers with customer data to test and maintain their mainframe applications do not mask or protect the data before supplying it to the outsourcing company, despite the significant security risks involved.
The Debian GNU/Linux project released version 7.0 of its well-known Linux distribution on May 4, two years and three months after the last version came out.
The Free Software Foundation is urging web users to sign a petition opposing a proposal by companies to specify standards for HTML extensions to support digital rights management (DRM).
Accounting software provider, MYOB, claims that bank-feeds services from some software providers may be unreliable and inaccurate and it has cautioned Australian businesses about how their accounting software accesses sensitive banking information.
Australian Internet security company Netbox Blue, has been included in the list of "cool vendors" by analyst group Gartner.
The Software Freedom Conservancy has launched a campaign to raise funds for developing a free and open source accounting system.
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