Robert McMillan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert McMillan

Article | 14/10/2011 After Stuxnet, a rush to find bugs in industrial systems

Kevin Finisterre isn't the type of person you expect to see in a nuclear power plant. With a beach ball-sized Afro, aviator sunglasses and a self-desc...

Article | 13/10/2011 Man charged with hacking Scarlett Johansson, other celebs

A 35-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he broke into the email accounts of numerous Hollywood celebrities and stole private photogra...

Article | 8/10/2011 111 arrested in massive ID theft bust

Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in US history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were cha...

Article | 6/10/2011 From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in

As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread around the Internet, the tributes came pouring in Wednesday, crediting Apple's co-founder and chairman with ...

Article | 5/10/2011 Firefox advises users to disable McAfee plugin

It's the last thing McAfee would want users to hear about one of its products, but the Firefox browser is advising users to disable McAfee's ScriptSca...

Article | 2/10/2011 On the front line against the next Stuxnet

Something has gone terribly wrong on the plant floor at ACME Specialty Chemical International Inc.

Article | 28/09/2011 Striking a domain provider, Microsoft kills off a botnet

Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging b...

Article | 27/09/2011 MySQL.com hacked to serve malware

The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday.

Article | 23/09/2011 Alleged LulzSec Sony hacker arrested

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Phoenix student, claiming that he is one of the LulzSec hackers responsible for a database att...

Article | 16/09/2011 Man stole data from U.S. service members via P2P

A California man who dug up sensitive information belonging to U.S. service members on peer-to-peer networks, and then used it to order iPods, cameras...

Article | 16/09/2011 Judge strikes part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google

A federal judge threw out a small part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google on Thursday but allowed the bulk of the case to proceed.

Article | 15/09/2011 SAP pays $20M to settle criminal charges in Oracle case

SAP has agreed to pay just over $US20 million to settle a criminal case brought against its TomorrowNow subsidiary.

Article | 14/09/2011 U.S. launches criminal probe into eBay-Craigslist dispute

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether eBay executives broke the law and stole trade secrets while sitting on the boa...

Article | 14/09/2011 With help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip

Nearly seven months after Intel shelled out $US7.68 billion for antivirus vendor McAfee, the two companies are offering a glimpse of their future.

Article | 10/09/2011 Anonymous supporters claim NBC News Twitter hack

Hackers calling themselves the Script Kiddies took control of the NBC News Twitter account on Friday afternoon and used it to send out a series of hoa...