John E. Dunn - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 19/03/2010 Sex.com sale halted by bankruptcy

The sale of what is claimed to be the most valuable domain on the Internet, sex.com, has been halted after a creditor forced the company owning it int...

Article | 18/03/2010 Cisco battered by large fall in security market

'Nobody fires you if you buy Cisco' it was once said but it seems somebody should tell the corporate security sector which has deserted the giant in d...

Article | 17/03/2010 Embarrassment as 10,000 Microsoft staff buy iPhones

Steve Ballmer doesn't use one but apparently as many as 10,000 Microsoft employees do. Embarrassingly, the device in question is Apple's iPhone.

Article | 17/03/2010 US military plotted revenge on Wikileaks

The US military was so fearful of classified information ending up on Wikileaks it considered ways to undermine the organisation, a newly published se...

Article | 12/03/2010 Celebrities caused 2009 Twitter crime wave

Criminals started targeting Twitter in earnest during a key period in early 2009, and security company Barracuda Labs has worked out why. During the s...

Article | 10/03/2010 Kaspersky invents security suite for 'expert' user

Kaspersky Lab has invented a new security product that combines bits of its current consumer security suite with new capabilities such as encryption, ...

Article | 7/03/2010 IT professionals recover from recession

A global survey of IT professionals has revealed a fairly upbeat picture of life in the tech department. Hiring is set to rise modestly, budgets are n...

Article | 7/03/2010 Internet hit by wave of ransom malware

Criminals re-used an attack from 2008 to hit the Internet with a huge wave of ransomware in recent weeks, a security company has reported.

Article | 26/02/2010 Huge number of websites barely visited, report finds

The Internet, famously, has a long tail, but a new analysis has revealed another characteristic of this vast slew of obscure websites. Huge numbers of...

Article | 18/02/2010 New browser tweaks Chrome security

The open source engine that forms the basis for Google's Chrome has spawned an ostensibly new browser, Comodo's cleverly named 'Dragon'.

Article | 12/02/2010 Japanese invent printer that uses plastic paper

In a triumph of later thinking, a Japanese company has invented a deskside 'eco' printer that needs no ink or toner and instead relies on a new kind o...

Article | 5/02/2010 Fake Firefox update spreads unwanted app

The successor program to the notorious Zango spyware Toolbar is being used to target users of Mozilla's Firefox with fake browser updates, a security ...

Article | 5/02/2010 Too many people re-use logins, study finds

An analysis of real-world online behaviour has warned of the unsettling phenomenon that led to this week's high-profile Twitter login scare. Far too m...

Article | 1/02/2010 Internal data breaches a rarity, study finds

Internal data breaches might keep CSOs awake at night, but they appear to be a rare event, a university analysis of reported UK compromises has found.

Article | 27/01/2010 Virus comes back from dead to hit hard drives

A 'prank' worm that started as an attack targeted at an off-road Slovakian motorcycle club has escaped beyond its intended victims and started wreckin...