Matt Hines - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Matt Hines

Article | 15/10/2007 Symantec to buy DLP specialist Vontu

Security software giant Symantec is preparing to announce an acquisition of Vontu, one the largest remaining independent providers of data leakage pre...

Article | 12/10/2007 Mobile systems management maturing fast

One of the most frustrating aspects of being an IT professional who is required to be on call to respond to emerging support issues has long been the ...

Article | 5/10/2007 Security vendors bring zombie fighters to life

Data leakage prevention might be the hottest IT security submarket, but vendors are also tuning up their product offerings to help customers ward off ...

Article | 3/10/2007 Malware boom puts pressure on anti-virus race

Anti-virus application vendor Symantec found a total 212,101 new malware variants over the first months of 2007, an astonishing 185 per cent increase ...

Article | 28/09/2007 Kerberos backers form consortium

Developers and other supporters of the Kerberos authentication platform gathered at MIT's Stata Center on Thursday to unveil a new industry effort aim...

Article | 27/09/2007 Tech giants chart research goals

Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development inves...

Article | 26/09/2007 Security experts pitch 'culture of data'

The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive in...

Article | 21/09/2007 AT&T: Perimeter network security should be virtual

Enterprise companies will soon begin offloading many of their network security responsibilities to telecommunications and Internet service providers a...

Article | 21/09/2007 Paypal claims gains against phishers

Paypal security chief Michael Barrett isn't ready to claim a victory in the fight against phishing schemes, but he said that his company is slowly tur...

Article | 19/09/2007 Fear of insider threats hits home

The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threa...

Article | 19/09/2007 Malware moves from scattershot to honeypot

End users were far less likely to receive malware programs in their in-boxes and far more likely to get attacked as they visited legitimate Web sites ...

Article | 15/09/2007 Badware hunters tame wild Webmasters, hosts

If hijacked sites and hosting companies that fail to police malware distribution sources represent two of the most serious threats to Internet securit...

Article | 10/09/2007 Mobile business apps middleware catches on

Industry experts maintain that many business applications vendors are still struggling to successfully port their tools to mobile handsets. But some s...

Article | 6/09/2007 Security show stresses risk management

Enterprise security decision makers have long been more likely to be swayed by flashy new technologies than by the notion of comprehensive IT restruct...

Article | 28/08/2007 Intel adds desktop NAC to latest chips

Intel's move to provide new integration with NAC (network access control) tools in its latest vPro desktop processors could provide interesting opport...