John E Dunn - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John E Dunn

Article | 17/02/2013 Targeted APT attacks experienced by one in five security professionals

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) could be more of a mainstream security problem than previously thought after a survey of high-level security profes...

Article | 18/12/2012 Google head grovels after users vent fury at Nexus 4 shortages

Google’s UK managing director Dan Cobley has blamed LG for shortages of the Nexus 4 smartphone after angry customers mugged his upbeat 2012 review blo...

Article | 19/09/2012 Ultrabooks get affordable McAfee anti-theft syetem

Worried about losing that expensive new Ultrabook and the data contained on it? McAfee hopes the latest version of the company’s Anti-Theft device-tra...

Article | 8/09/2012 Raspberry Pi resurrects UK computer industry with new jobs

The Raspberry Pi computer is designed in the UK and now it will be made here as well in a deal that will make the tiny board the first all-British per...

Article | 31/07/2012 Microsoft Surface tablet set for 26 October launch

Microsoft will start selling the cheaper of its Surface tablet computers on Windows 8 launch day, 26 October, the company has said after sneaking the ...

Article | 9/07/2012 'Melted' Samsung S III phone had been put in microwave

A Samsung S III smartphone said to have overheated after a malfunction probably sustained the damage after being deliberately put inside a microwave o...

Article | 16/05/2012 Android users targeted by premium-rate SMS malware

In a clear warning to mobile users in developed markets, Russian cybercriminals have started distributing a wave of premium rate malware from rogue ma...

Article | 29/02/2012 Nokia shocks tech world with 41 megapixel smartphone

After days of teasing in advance of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Nokia has announced the 808 PureView, the first smartphone to feature a sensor ca...

Article | 11/01/2012 Windows 8 to tame storage hassle with 'Spaces' technology

Windows 8 will tame data loss and storage bloat on PCs by offering a simple form of the thin provisioning and virtualisation technology more commonly ...

Article | 17/11/2011 BlackBerry shunned by app developers as Windows Phone 7 booms

App developers are rapidly losing interest in RIM's BlackBerry platform and setting their sights on the new big three, Apple, Android and Windows 7, a...

Article | 9/10/2011 Users warned after YapBrowser returns from the dead

YapBrowser, a replacement web browser once promoted by controversial spyware company Zango, has made a sudden return, GFI Software security researcher...

Article | 21/09/2011 Cyberattackers hit Japanese defense giant with Trojan

Japan's biggest defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy has admitted that it was targeted by a major cyberattack last month in which at least 83 of its co...

Article | 16/09/2011 BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus

The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of...

Article | 24/08/2011 Warning after Zeus bank Trojan fused with Ramnit worm

Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that c...

Article | 20/08/2011 Surge in attachment spam a sign of desperation, say experts

Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution indus...