Matthew Broersma - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Matthew Broersma

Article | 10/07/2008 Matasano launches multi-firewall dashboard

Security research and consulting firm Matasano has entered the security appliance game with a new product called Playbook, designed to take some of th...

Article | 9/07/2008 MessageLabs secures e-mail backup

MessageLabs, best known as a provider of e-mail security services, last week introduced a managed e-mail backup service that has as a selling point th...

Article | 3/07/2008 SolarWinds simplifies large network monitoring

Network management software company SolarWinds on Tuesday updated its flagship Orion software, with a focus on making it easier to monitor large or ge...

Article | 26/06/2008 Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could all...

Article | 23/06/2008 Desktop virtualization gets military-grade security

Tresys Technology has released a desktop virtualization platform with a difference - it is designed from the ground up for organizations needing tight...

Article | 18/06/2008 Compression lets attackers tap VoIP calls

A common compression technique can make internet telephone calls significantly more susceptible to bugging, according to recent research from Johns Ho...

Article | 16/06/2008 Microsoft releases first Open XML SDK

Microsoft has released the first finished version of the software development kit (SDK) for the Open XML Format, the default storage format for Micros...

Article | 12/06/2008 Major security sites hit by XSS bugs

The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, ac...

Article | 4/06/2008 Discovery slashes quantum cryptography costs

Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a technique that could make quantum cryptography signi...

Article | 2/06/2008 Security agency calls for EU laws on breach disclosure

A European Union-wide advisory body this week called for security breach disclosure regulations tougher than those in the US as a step toward raising ...

Article | 28/05/2008 XP's graphics thrashes Apple's OS X

A benchmark test designed to compare graphics rendering systems in different operating systems has found that Mac OS X performs, on average, at about ...

Article | 19/05/2008 Apple dismisses Safari download issue

A security researcher has published a demonstration exploit that takes advantage of the download mechanism in Apple's Safari browser to automatically ...

Article | 13/05/2008 Hackers create their own social network

Hackers now have their own social network, backed by GnuCitizen, a high-profile "ethical hacking" group.

Article | 5/05/2008 Botnet attacks military systems

Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university and milita...

Article | 1/05/2008 Most top banks already using virtualization

Enterprises as a whole may be holding off on virtualizing their data centers, but the majority of top-tier U.S. and U.K. banks are already implementin...