It's probably quite difficult to annoy the ACMA, but when your spamming gets beyond a joke, expect to be thrust into the spotlight.

The mantra has always been "build it and they will come."  But too often it's translated to "build it with vulnerabilities and hope they won't notice." When it comes to TrendNet's web-capable cameras, unfortunately, the world has noticed.  

"Patriotism," said Oscar Wilde, "is the last refuge of the scoundrel," but it seems there may be no refuge for personal or corporate data from the reach of the US Patriot Act: even when the data are held in Australia.

The latest Facebook privacy scandal has erupted, with a report noting how easy it is to find people’s direct mobile numbers on Facebook, all thanks to people who’ve lost their phones, created an invite to ask friends to send their numbers over – without setting the invite to private, thus letting anyone on Facebook harvest the details.

Following news of the hack of the Stratfor site, the perpetrators have released extensive information on every subscriber (paid or otherwise) of Stratfor's on-line services.

The security consultancy Stratfor has suffered an embarrassing hack.  If Anonymous is correct, the embarrassment may last some time to come.

Under its corporate plan, NBN Co is tasked with delivering broadband services of up to 100 megabits per second (Mb/s) to the 93 per cent of Australian homes eventually serviced by its fibre network. However, recent warnings from cyber security experts in both the New South Wales and Victorian Police suggest that consumers, service providers and regulators should be considering the security risks posed by the very characteristics identified as benefits of the NBN.

Yet another security company dusts off the crystal ball.  Here's what Kaspersky Labs sees in the year ahead.

Channel Seven sourced images of a grieving family from Facebook as part of a report into the sentencing of a convicted murderer.  A complaint regarding the use of these images was dismissed by the ACMA.

Facebook has begun to roll out Timeline, a redesign of Facebook profiles that will show a user's entire life, from birth to present day.