Stories by Siobhan McBride

Article | 8/08/2005 Salary gains modest for IT professionals, outlook cloudy
The 2005 Australian Computer Society (ACS) Remuneration Survey remains one of the largest of its kind in Australia and provides a detailed picture of ...
Article | 26/07/2005 Cyber crims replace bored teenagers
Gartner last week warned of the rise of the professional cyber criminal, a new IT security threat that is replacing "bored teenagers."
Article | 6/07/2005 ATO readies for etax deluge
As the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) readies for its end of financial year deluge, it's paying more attention to those individuals who submit their...
Article | 23/06/2005 Canines capture spammers' focus
Spam has gone to the dogs, according to the latest monthly spam Index from Clearswift.
Article | 19/05/2005 Study shows Australia's software piracy rate remains higher than the US
Australia's rate of software piracy continues to remain high relative to other developed countries and shows no sign of falling.
Article | 9/05/2005 Where have all the IT managers gone?
Large companies dedicate CIOs and IT managers to the task but up to 75 percent of SMBs in the Asia-Pacific region have no dedicated IT executives, new...
Article | 18/03/2005 Sarbanes Oxley deadline extended for foreign and smaller companies
Local companies can breath a sigh of relief now that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally extended the deadline for smaller firms...
Article | 3/02/2005 Zero day attack imminent
A devastating attack on the Internet or a power grid in the next decade is "most plausible", 1300 of the world's leading technology experts and schola...
Article | 1/02/2005 IT's not sexy enough to fill uni courses
Completion of first-round offers for university placements across the country has revealed a serious decline in IT course enrolments.
Article | 20/01/2005 PayPal pals up with Australia, launches local site
Online consumer transaction service PayPal has launched a localised Australian Web site and service in a bid to bolster its fortunes in the Asia-Pacif...
Article | 8/12/2004 GIS round up - location and navigation takes off
Australians are currently downloading 18 million Whereis online maps a month, tripling the download figures in less than a year and indicating a massi...
Article | 5/07/2004 Australia, US and UK unite to battle spam
Australia, the US and UK have joined forces in the fight against spam with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington over the w...
Article | 1/07/2004 Web spider catches scams and schemes
Illegal scams and schemes promoted on the Internet will now catch the eye of Scamseek, an Internet-document classification system developed with the a...
Article | 13/04/2004 Spam legislation levies heavy fines
The Federal Spam Act 2003 officially took effect on April 11 with companies which breach the legislation facing fines of up to $220,000 per day or $1....

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