Tim Greene - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Tim Greene

Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon study: data breaches quintupled in 2010

Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits that run lower risk of...

Article | 14/04/2011 Phishers target the popular

People who make a lot of online transactions, are popular online and who respond to most of the emails they receive are at the highest risk for being ...

Article | 12/04/2011 Cisco VoIP network ousted for ShoreTel in Wisconsin school district

A combination of costs savings and features plus a need to refresh the network infrastructure in general drove a Wisconsin school district to abandon ...

Article | 8/04/2011 Phishing scams dupe the most active online users

People who make a lot of online transactions, are popular online and who respond to most of the emails they receive are at the highest risk for being ...

Article | 6/04/2011 Who needs a broker? Twitter comment analysis predicts great investments

Forget about insider trading. Use Twitter.

Article | 2/04/2011 IEEE suffers a data breach

The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers suffered a data breach last year that compromised credit card information of 828 people who reg...

Article | 1/04/2011 IBM: Mobile phone, cloud security issues can impact IT

IBM says IT staff need to pay extra attention to use of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure on business networks because both technologies are sti...

Article | 30/03/2011 Critical NASA network was open to internet attack

Six NASA servers exposed to the Internet had critical vulnerabilities that could have endangered Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble...

Article | 26/03/2011 Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum

Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used so unlicensed devices can use it...

Article | 25/03/2011 Anonymous draws Congressional attention; battles disgruntled members

When Anonymous attacked HBGary Federal back in January, it set off a chain of events that has spawned widespread fascination, fear, anger and some par...

Article | 24/03/2011 Polycom gets instant Microsoft integration with Accordent buy

Polycom said it bought video management firm Accordent Technologies for $50 million in cash,

Article | 19/03/2011 Four steps to take if your business depends on RSA SecurID tokens

With the theft of sensitive data about RSA's SecurID technology, large businesses should reassess the risks to the assets the two-factor authenticatio...

Article | 19/03/2011 The RSA Hack FAQ

In the aftermath of RSA saying that its SecureID two-factor authentication tokens may have been compromised in a data breach of the company's network,...

Article | 17/03/2011 Trucking firm brings on unified communications to save money, boost productivity

Interstate trucking company Boyd Bros. Transportation was losing experienced freight agents because it couldn't support home workers, but replacing th...

Article | 17/03/2011 Hackers learn new trick to duck Firefox, Chrome anti-phishing measures

A new phishing scam that targets bank and PayPal passwords and other consumer data that criminals use to loot private accounts is designed to beat sec...