Cara Garretson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Cara Garretson

Article | 13/10/2010 Cash-in on old IT equipment

Some organizations can earn a profit, or at least reduce the amount they have to pay to dispose of IT equipment, by allowing providers of IT disposal ...

Article | 13/10/2010 Recycling IT assets is serious business

Information technology departments that practice asset management are learning to master the art of retiring hardware at the right time. But making th...

Article | 24/11/2009 Cloud computing: Which IT projects are right for the cloud?

Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009.

Article | 20/02/2009 Security researcher Kaminsky pushes DNS patching

Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions.

Article | 8/01/2008 Data loss start-ups sell out

The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager's head spin: This segment of the security sec...

Article | 21/11/2007 12 spam research projects that might make a difference

Those who commit cybercrime know they need to stay on the cutting edge of technology to come up with new and different ways to swindle people. Luckily...

Article | 12/11/2007 Antispam group targets transactions, not messages

A father-son team that has dedicated time and energy to fighting spam says that as of today, it has shut down more than 50,000 Web sites that use unwa...

Article | 9/11/2007 Spammers beg for money in pre-holiday blast

A new spam campaign has emerged that tells stories of the hard-knock life, and then asks for money.

Article | 8/11/2007 Spammers latch on to political subjects

US Congressman Ron Paul is hot. Image spam is not.

Article | 6/11/2007 Inside San Diego Supercomputing Center's green data center

The 80,000-square-foot building will double the size of the SDSC's facilities; besides an additional 5,000 square feet of data-center space, the expan...

Article | 5/11/2007 One in six PCs could be infected with malware

As many as one in six PCs may have active spyware or malware infections.

Article | 2/11/2007 PDF spam back with a vengeance

PDF spam, the summertime nuisance that flooded inboxes in early August and then quickly disappeared, is back and worse than ever.

Article | 1/11/2007 Storm worm pulls Halloween hoax

It wouldn't be Halloween without the zombie-creating Storm malware up to some mischief.

Article | 25/10/2007 Hybrid Web filtering combines appliance with hosted service

St. Bernard Software this week is announcing a hybrid solution for Web filtering that the company says combines the control of an appliance with the e...

Article | 24/10/2007 Raytheon closes acquisition of Oakley Systems

US Government technology supplier Raytheon announced the completion of its acquisition of data-leak prevention company Oakley Systems.