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AusCERT09: Security will make or break NBN potential

AusCERT09: Security will make or break NBN potential

E-security is high on the Federal Government's agenda as it prepares for the country's digital future, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said at the region's largest security conference in the Gold Coast this morning.
Negar Salek in the Gold Coast May 18 2009 11:52AM Security
Companies should assess the role of the CISO

Companies should assess the role of the CISO

The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) is at risk due to the fact that information security risks that enterprises face have been exaggerated and misunderstood, according to a security blogger.
Dan Raywood May 18 2009 11:25AM Security
New web-based malware attack hits internet

New web-based malware attack hits internet

A new web-based malware attack is currently being found six times more often than its nearest rival.
Dan Raywood May 18 2009 11:01AM Security
Majority of adolescents online have tried hacking

Majority of adolescents online have tried hacking

A new study from Panda Security found that 67 per cent of teenagers surveyed admitted to having tried to hack into friends' instant messaging or social network accounts.
Greg Masters May 18 2009 10:56AM Security
Visual Studio beta launches this week

Visual Studio beta launches this week

Microsoft is set to release next week the first beta of its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 tools suite.
Phil Muncaster May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
EMC offers sneak peek of EMC World 2009

EMC offers sneak peek of EMC World 2009

EMC is set to add new data deduplication capabilities and virtualisation functionalities to its storage portfolio.
Rosalie Marshall May 18 2009 6:46AM Storage
McAfee buys Solidcore

McAfee buys Solidcore

McAfee has announced it is to acquire banking and retail software firm Solidcore Systems in a US$43 million deal which will give the firm cutting edge whitelisting capabilities and access to the embedded devices market.
Phil Muncaster May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Mozilla's Fennec lands for Windows Mobile

Mozilla's Fennec lands for Windows Mobile

Mozilla’s much hyped mobile web browser Fennec has finally been made available for the Windows Mobile operating system.
Phil Muncaster May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Top 10 disappointing technologies

Top 10 disappointing technologies

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.
Shaun Nichols , Iain Thomson May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Companies urged to embrace the piracy model

Companies urged to embrace the piracy model

Companies should try to copy pirates rather than wasting time trying to beat them, according to experts at a UK conference.
Phil Muncaster May 16 2009 9:22AM Software
NEC abandons Japanese supercomputer project

NEC abandons Japanese supercomputer project

NEC has withdrawn its participation in a Japanese government programme to build a supercomputer.
David Neal May 16 2009 9:22AM Hardware
MySQL founder creates Open Database Alliance

MySQL founder creates Open Database Alliance

Monty Widenius, the main author of MySQL, is setting up the Open Database Alliance (ODA) to consolidate work on the database.
Iain Thomson May 16 2009 9:22AM Software
Apple hires security guru to harden OS

Apple hires security guru to harden OS

Apple has hired the security chief behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation to harden up its operating systems.
Iain Thomson May 15 2009 3:20PM Security
Farmers: dig your own trench for NBN access

Farmers: dig your own trench for NBN access

Telecommunications analysts say there may be one way to ensure regional Australians can connect to the fibre network that underlies the NBN - by digging their own trenches.
Brett Winterford May 15 2009 3:08PM Telco/ISP
Grocon caches CAD files at building sites

Grocon caches CAD files at building sites

Building developer Grocon has started ‘pre-caching’ large CAD files at building project sites to reduce latency and stop employees from saving the files locally.
Staff Writers May 15 2009 3:06PM Software
Sony reports first profit decline in 14 years

Sony reports first profit decline in 14 years

Sony has joined the growing number of Japanese electronics companies to report large-scale losses, as consumers withhold from buying the latest devices and make do with what they have.
Rosalie Marshall May 15 2009 3:02PM Hardware
AMD break speed barrier with air cooled 1Ghz GPU

AMD break speed barrier with air cooled 1Ghz GPU

AMD says it has reached a new top speed for graphics processing.
Shaun Nichols May 15 2009 2:53PM Hardware
'Gumblar' attack explodes across the web

'Gumblar' attack explodes across the web

A complex new malware attack is setting infection records and raising alarms from security experts.
Shaun Nichols May 15 2009 2:53PM Security
Astronaut send world's first tweets from space

Astronaut send world's first tweets from space

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has made Twitter history by sending the first ever tweets from space.
Iain Thomson May 15 2009 2:53PM Oddware
Review: CheckPoint UTM-1 3070

Review: CheckPoint UTM-1 3070

This product is feature-rich, but it is also difficult to use and requires some getting accustomed to.
Peter Stephenson May 15 2009 1:13PM Security

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