Jaikumar Vijayan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jaikumar Vijayan

Article | 5/04/2011 Federal court to review $67,500 music piracy fine

For the fist time, a federal appellate court has been asked to consider the appropriateness of the damages being sought by the Recording Industry Asso...

Article | 31/03/2011 What a cyberwar with China might look like

It's August 2020. A powerful and rising China wants to bring the city-state of Singapore into its fold as it has with Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei.

Article | 1/04/2011 GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers

When Alex Eckelberry first read news reports on Wednesday that some of Samsung's R Series laptops contained keylogging software, he was as astounded a...

Article | 30/03/2011 BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants

The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last year's disastrous oil spill may have been potentia...

Article | 26/03/2011 IPv4 address transfers must meet policy, ARIN chief says

The chief executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) said today that any transfer of IPv4 addresses from one organization to anoth...

Article | 19/03/2011 Caution urged in wake of RSA security breach

The relatively scant information released by EMC's RSA security group on Thursday in connection with the theft of SecurID authentication technology co...

Article | 14/03/2011 Japan's Internet largely intact after earthquake, tsunami

Japan's Internet infrastructure has remained surprisingly unaffected by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to an analysis by In...

Article | 12/03/2011 Tsunami warnings now faster, more accurate

As the deadly tsunami generated by Friday's massive earthquake off the coast of Japan headed toward the United States, scientists at the National Ocea...

Article | 11/03/2011 Square CEO rebuts VeriFone's claims about security

The CEO of mobile payment service startup Square called accusations that the company was distributing credit-card skimming devices inaccurate and unfa...

Article | 25/02/2011 Anonymous hacks church Web site during live interview

The Anonymous hacking collective this morning defaced the Web site of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in the middle of a live radio show tha...

Article | 24/02/2011 Church Website knocked offline: Was Anonymous involved?

The main Web site of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in Topeka was unavailable this morning, just days the Anonymous hacking collectiv...

Article | 23/02/2011 New bank Trojan employs fresh tricks to steal account data

Cybercriminals in Eastern Europe have begun using a dangerous new malware program to steal from online bank accounts in the U.S.

Article | 16/02/2011 Virtualization can be key to cloud security, RSA chief says

SAN FRANCISCO -- Virtualization technologies can help enable better security and control in cloud computing environments, RSA chief Art Coviello said ...

Article | 16/02/2011 Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say

SAN FRANCISCO -- Acknowledging that security technologies to prevent cyberattacks are insufficient, several vendors at the RSA Conference here urged c...

Article | 10/02/2011 Vendors tap into cloud security concerns with new encryption tools

A handful of vendors have begun rolling out new technologies designed to let companies take advantage of cloud computing environments without exposing...