Telstra and BigPond were joined by one of the world’s leading experts on e-learning and a leading advocate for child cyber safety, Dr Martyn Wild, who shared simple steps parents can take to make the internet a safe and enjoyable place for their family.

Stanford Center for Internet and Society March 7, 2011 – Stanford Law School Kevin Poulsen will talks about his widely praised book, Kingpin. Professor Jonathan Zittrain describes his book as “a vivid portrait of the major players in the latest wave of computer crime. Building on the best of the police procedural tradition, Kevin Poulsen lays out in clear language the technologies and methods employed by the criminals and crime fighters alike, all the while crafting a sympathetic character study of the conflicted gray hat, Max Vision, at the heart of it all.” Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime. More information on the book is available at kingpin.cc About Kevin Poulsen: Kevin Poulsen is a former computer hacker, whose best known hack involved penetrating telephone company computers in the early 1990s to win radio station phone-in contests. By taking over all the phone lines leading to Los Angeles radio stations, he was able to guarantee that he would be the proper-numbered caller to win, for example, $20000 in cash, and a Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet. When the FBI started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. He was featured on NBC’s …

Tonight on Adam Vs. the Man: Look out! The inter-webs are coming! Don’t worry, your fearless leaders in Washington are busy regulating the internet out of existence. But wait, didn’t Al Gore invent the internet? Joining Adam tonight is, Alex Jones, a man who has built one of the largest audiences online with his message of freedom and refocusing our fears towards the government. Also joining Adam to discuss the government’s latest attempts to control the internet are Seton Motley, editor in chief of StopNetRegulation.org, and Corie Wright, Policy Council to Free Press. Then, Adam discusses internet activism with the founder of WeAreChange, Luke Rudkowski. The internet is not just a big truck that you can dump stuff on, it’s a series of tubes.

Marian Merritt, Symantec’s Internet Safety Advocate answers questions about the Conficker Worm

In his new book McMafia, Misha Glenny, author of The Balkans: 1804-1999, and The Fall of Yugoslavia, talks about the rise of international organized crime in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ascendant global economic order. In this clip, he talks about Dubai and its role in money laundering. For more information visit www.randomhouse.com www.randomhouse.com