Security & Surveillance Feature Articles

From hot property to unwanted waste: it's time to rethink the way we design, produce and reuse new products.

As Australian companies prepare for the New Year ahead, business information analysts at IBISWorld reveal the five industries expected to soar and the five expected to sink in 2013. ...

Smartphone users who remotely check their emails are at risk of online hackers gaining access to their devices, ECU researcher Peter Hannay has found.

Cyber bullying – using modern communications such as e-mails, texts or web-postings - is as common in the workplace as ‘conventional’ bullying. Yet, the way cyber bullying influences ...

Driverless cars, robotic mining, smart 'event alarm' CCTV and even at-home stroke rehabilitation - this is the world where computers can see, being made possible by researchers like ...

Key component shortages force purchasers to move outside of trusted supply chains and into the hands of fake component makers.

A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight.

Edith Cowan University (ECU) students have developed a new app which transforms a smartphone into an emergency beacon at the push of a button.

While military and search-and-rescue teams have long wished for x-ray vision, the imaging systems work of Professor Abdesselam Bouzerdoum from the University of Wollongong is bringing ...

Texting and driving don't go well together - though not in the way you might think.

The killing of Osama bin Laden reminded the world just how focused the United States remains on countering terrorism.

An international team of plasmonics researchers has developed a novel type of nanoantenna that could one day lead to advances in security applications for the detection of drugs and ...

Groundbreaking research in quantum light source led by the University of Sydney will result in information speeds many times faster and data that is almost impossible to hack.

Theft costs Australian businesses a small fortune each year, and in many cases you should be pointing the finger at your own employees.

The world is an interconnected web of people and places.

Researchers have warned that GPS systems are becoming increasingly vulnerable to accidental interference or deliberate jamming, raising concerns about reliability and security.

Chances are you lock your door when you leave home, don't leave the keys in the ignition when you run into the corner shop for milk and have some kind of security software on your ...

Negligence is the biggest cause of data breaches at corporations, but criminal attacks are growing fastest, a study recently released concludes.

A UTAS study examines the truth of the ‘grazing stops blazing’ argument.

In 2009, the full brunt of the global financial crisis (GFC) hit.