John P. Mello Jr. - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John P. Mello Jr.

Article | 18/08/2011 Firefox 6: 4 reasons to upgrade

Mozilla has more than a thousand changes under the hood of the latest version of Firefox, but only few provide worthwhile reasons for upgrading to the...

Article | 12/08/2011 LinkedIn makes marketing shills of its members by default

If you're a member of LinkedIn -- the social network with a business bent -- you might want to review some changes made in the service's privacy polic...

Article | 10/08/2011 Study: Companies lose millions from missing memory sticks

While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company's bottom line, too. Most notably, that is...

Article | 10/08/2011 BlackBerry Blog hacked for helping police quell riots

Hackers defaced the official Blackberry Blog today in retaliation for Research In Motion's pledge to assist police "in any way we can" in their effort...

Article | 9/08/2011 Seagate offers data recovery with hard drive purchase

Hard drive crashes are a nightmare for computer users for many reasons. Not only can data held dear to one's heart be lost, but trying to recover it c...

Article | 9/08/2011 Hackers use frequent flyer miles as currency

Unsatisfied with stealing bank account information from their victims, cybercriminals steal frequent flyer miles, too. The miles are used as currency ...

Article | 7/08/2011 Speedy malware infects more than 6 million Web pages

In less than two weeks, a malware injection that targets e-commerce Web pages has ballooned from 90,000 infected pages to more than 6 million.

Article | 8/08/2011 Google+ 'Real Names' Enforcement Panned

Google's real-names policy for its social networking service has created a tempest that could have easily been avoided.

Article | 6/08/2011 Free Firefox Tool Fights Search Hijacking

A free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that can counter search hijacking on computer networks in the United States has been released by the E...

Article | 4/08/2011 McAfee warns of massive 5-Year hacking plot

Every company in every conceivable industry is compromised by hackers - or will be shortly - according to a report from McAfee, a major maker of cybe...

Article | 3/08/2011 Cybercrime fight costing companies more this year

Cybercrime cost corporations 56 percent more this year than last, according to an annual study from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ArcSight, a...

Article | 3/02/2011 Google Shopper comes to iPhone

Millions of consumers who want to comparison shop on the fly with their smartphones have been turning to the free Google Shopper app since last Februa...

Article | 1/02/2011 Firefox 'Do Not Track' ready for download now

Adventuresome Firefox users who can't wait to try out the "do not track" feature can do so now by grabbing a "nightly build" of the browser. Nightly b...

Article | 28/01/2011 Netflix rates broadband providers by bandwidth

Have you wondered how your Internet Service Provider stacks up against the competition when it comes to delivering streaming video to your home? It se...

Article | 26/01/2011 Car gadgets threaten drivers' privacy

For many drivers, the cockpit of their car is a sanctum sanctorum, a place where privacy is sacrosanct. That's becoming less so, however, as high-tech...