John E Dunn - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John E Dunn

Article | 10/11/2010 Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair

A New York couple have been charged with defrauding a wealthy musician to the tune of $20 million (£12.3 million) after he innocently visited their co...

Article | 9/11/2010 Boonana Mac Trojan was ‘not Koobface’, says Microsoft

The widely-reported 'Boonana' Trojan was a new piece of malware after all and had nothing directly to do with Koobface, Microsoft and other security c...

Article | 6/11/2010 Zeus Trojan defeats Microsoft security tool

Only weeks after Microsoft added anti-Zeus Trojan detection to its free Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), it is unable to detect the latest vers...

Article | 3/11/2010 Sophos delights Mac users with free antivirus

Security software company Sophos has finally broken ranks and decided to offer Mac users a free antivirus product without hidden strings.

Article | 2/11/2010 Antivirus scanning becoming inadequate, says Webroot CEO

US antivirus vendor Webroot has bought UK-based Prevx in an acquisition that looks like the latest symptom of the growing dissatisfaction among securi...

Article | 28/10/2010 Mac users hit with Windows-style 'Koobface' Trojan

A week after a security company warned Mac users of the slowly growing risk of malware attack, a new Mac OS X Trojan-worm based on Koobface has been d...

Article | 28/10/2010 Consumer smartphones to get remote wipes and SIM swap alerts

Consumer smartphone users could soon be given access a range of advanced security features previously offered only to large corporates, after equipmen...

Article | 27/10/2010 Google traffic rise shows search giant's Internet domination

Microsoft makes more money and Apple is worth more on the stock market but when it comes to Internet traffic only one name counts and that is Google.

Article | 22/10/2010 Gene Simmons battles Anonymous group after new DDoS attacks

Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has started an unwise war of words with the shadowy anti-copyright group believed to be behind a recent spate of DDoS attack...

Article | 22/10/2010 Mac users warned of growing virus threat

Attacks on the Mac are now significant enough to warrant Apple users investing in an anti-virus product, security company Panda Security said as it la...

Article | 20/10/2010 UK lags world in new broadband league table

The UK is falling slowly but surely down the global league table for broadband, and is particularly weak in improving upload performance, a new Cisco-...

Article | 20/10/2010 Global survey predicts 'death of the office'

The office workplace that has dominated business since the 19th Century is dying and most employees would be quite happy not to work in it, a global s...

Article | 19/10/2010 Security vendor: Firewalls defenceless against new attack

Why are apparently well-defended networks belonging to the government, military and monied corporates falling to large-scale targeted attacks so regul...

Article | 14/10/2010 Security chief warns of global cyberthreat

Once hailed as an economic saviour, the Internet is now in danger of becoming a threat to the future prosperity of the UK and its allies, the head of ...

Article | 13/10/2010 Kensington reinvents laptop lock with new tether

Laptop lock maker Kensington claims it has solved the riddle of how to make more people tether their expensive portables to deter theft - make it easi...