Jeremy Kirk - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jeremy Kirk

Article | 15/01/2008 10,000 Web sites rigged with advanced hacking attack

A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major online advertisin...

Article | 10/01/2008 Yahoo tests support for OpenID

Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into ...

Article | 8/01/2008 Dutch company sells media player -- with a worm

A batch of digital media players sold by a Dutch importer over the holidays appear to have been infected with a nasty stocking stuffer -- a worm.

Article | 8/01/2008 Boeing Dreamliner could be vulnerable to hackers

The electronics of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet could be vulnerable to hackers due to the way critical flight systems are linked with those used by...

Article | 21/12/2007 Trojan bumps Google ads from Web pages

A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving...

Article | 20/12/2007 Orkut worm demonstrates vulnerability of service

Google's Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated the continuing vulnerability ...

Article | 18/12/2007 Facebook sues Canadian porn company over hacking

Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users'...

Article | 13/12/2007 Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube

YouTube's technology for finding videos posted without the copyright holder's permission may be useless to identify footage posted to the site from Le...

Article | 12/12/2007 Two sentenced in Italy for massive phishing operation

Two people have been sentenced for their participation in a massive phishing operation busted up by Italian authorities in July.

Article | 11/12/2007 Toshiba to make flash-based notebook drives

Toshiba will begin manufacturing flash-based solid-state drives for laptops early next year, which the company said will offer faster boot times and l...

Article | 11/12/2007 LinkedIn opens site to developers, jazzes up design

LinkedIn will let developers build applications for its professional networking site, an approach recently undertaken by social networking competitor ...

Article | 6/12/2007 Shell, Rolls Royce reportedly hacked by Chinese spies

Britain's domestic intelligence agency is warning that cybercrime perpetrated by China is on the rise following hacking attacks against Rolls-Royce an...

Article | 5/12/2007 F-Secure: Malware samples doubled in one year

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has collected twice as many malicious software samples this year than it has over the last 20 years, a trend that hig...

Article | 30/11/2007 As ISPs choke file-sharing, users look elsewhere

As ISPs constrict file-sharing services such as BitTorrent, new data shows that users are moving to file-hosting Web sites to avoid slow downloads.

Article | 26/11/2007 Broadcom will pursue injunction against Qualcomm

A US federal court ruling has cleared the way for wireless chip maker Broadcom to pursue an injunction against rival Qualcomm after a long-running pat...