John E. Dunn - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John E. Dunn

Article | 21/01/2010 Internet heading for 'perfect storm'

Attacks on the cloud could cause major global outages and the service providers are now quietly worried at the potential for chaos, a survey of the se...

Article | 16/01/2010 Conficker still going strong, Akamai finds

Russia and Brazil are now the top hotspots for global Internet attack traffic, Net giant Akamai has said in its latest threat report, placing most of ...

Article | 13/01/2010 Anti-theft chip turns laptop into 'brick'

Absolute Software has added a new feature to its Computrace Lojack anti-theft software that can remotely turn a stolen laptop into a useless, non-boot...

Article | 17/12/2009 Susan Boyle is most watched YouTube video of 2009

The most popular videos on YouTube this year were of a Scottish talent show winner, a little boy returning from the dentist, and some wedding guests d...

Article | 27/11/2009 Vendor rages after Aussie iPhone hacker given job

A security firm has expressed incredulity at the news that the Australian prank hacker who wrote a program targeting Apple iPhone users has been given...

Article | 25/09/2009 Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive

After 8 years of success the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first main...

Article | 29/08/2009 Swiss coder publicises government spy Trojan

A software engineer who created Trojans for the Swiss authorities to intercept Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone calls has published the source code to his p...

Article | 29/08/2009 BlockMaster boasts of 'supersonic' USB stick

Swedish outfit BlockMaster has launched what it claims to be the world's fastest secure USB stick, curing, it says, the problematic trade-off between ...

Article | 10/08/2009 Xandros Presto Linux

Does the average Windows PC or laptop really need to spend two minutes or more booting up and then perhaps half that again powering down? According to...

Article | 18/07/2009 Freecom puts swipe-card security on hard drive

Storage vendor Freecom has come up with a new external USB hard drive that can only be accessed using an RFID (radio frequency identification) swipe c...

Article | 16/07/2009 IronKey USB drive gets uncrackable shell

IronKey reckons it has made its super-secure S100 crypto USB drive family even harder to crack.

Article | 15/07/2009 Real Viagra sales power global spam flood

The truism that spam mostly consists of inducements to buy products such as Viagra turns out to spot on, a security company has found.

Article | 7/07/2009 Malware authors hit by recession too

The recession might be having at least one positive effect - it has started cutting the volume of malware.

Article | 2/07/2009 Firefox 3.5 now available to download

The latest release of Firefox appeared as promised this afternoon BST on the Mozilla website, with the headline improvement being a claimed performanc...

Article | 18/06/2009 Citrix CEO hails 'free' apps as way forward

Citrix's decision to give many of its important applications away for free makes sense in an era where business technology is becoming increasingly 'c...