Tim Greene - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Tim Greene

Article | 10/03/2011 Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP

A spike in attacks against IP PBXs that started last fall shows no signs of abating, spawning speculation that those responsible have tapped intobotne...

Article | 5/03/2011 Wordpress whacked for second day by DDoS attack

For the second day in a row, blog-hosting giant WordPress.com suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack that it was able to cut off quickly. The...

Article | 6/03/2011 The DDoS Hall of Shame

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks like the ones that nailed WordPress blogs in early March have been around for decades, but it's only in t...

Article | 3/03/2011 New Palo Alto software enforces security policies on all corporate laptops

Palo Alto Networks is coming out with software that extends its next-generation firewall protection to individual laptops no matter where they are whe...

Article | 2/03/2011 Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking

Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and applicat...

Article | 2/03/2011 PayPal CISO: DDoS one big security threat among many

Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in gene...

Article | 1/03/2011 Anonymous forces HBGary Federal CEO to step down

The hactivist group Anonymous has won for now its skirmish with the CEO of HBGary Federal, the network security firm whose e-mails were stolen and pos...

Article | 25/02/2011 Waiting for terabit ethernet? Don't hold your breath.

Despite the fact that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020310-facebook-sees-need-for-terabit.html">Facebook famously said</a> that it ne...

Article | 24/02/2011 Juniper leapfrogs Cisco with QFabric data center

Juniper Networks today announced the results of $100 million in research and development: a new architecturefor data center infrastructure called QFab...

Article | 19/02/2011 Princeton student discovers university LDAP server leaves personal data exposed

A Princeton University student who discovered the school's LDAP server exposed private student information to the public has shut down access to that ...

Article | 18/02/2011 Seven ways to avoid getting hacked by Anonymous

The hactivist group Anonymous used a series of simple technical and social exploits to crack the network of technology firm HBGary Federal, giving the...

Article | 17/02/2011 Full-duplex radio breakthrough can double Wi-Fi capacity

Stanford University researchers have found a way to double the capacity of wireless networks, while at the same time making them more reliable and eff...

Article | 17/02/2011 Bruised by Anonymous, HBGary Federal pulls out of RSA

E-mails stolen by hactivist group Anonymous indicate that the security company it targeted was proposing to make a “new breed of rootkit” and that it ...

Article | 16/02/2011 SenSage unlocking SIEM data so business intelligence, management tools can exploit it

SenSage, which makes security information and event management (SIEM) products, is opening up its platform to share data it gathers with business inte...

Article | 15/02/2011 Startup protects sensitive cloud data without breaking apps

CipherCloud, a startup launching this week at the RSA Conference, protects sensitive data being transferred on the Web without breaking the applicatio...