Jeremy Kirk - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jeremy Kirk

Article | 11/04/2007 Over 2,000 sites now exploit .ani security flaw

More than 2,000 unique Web sites have been rigged to exploit the animated cursor security flaw in Microsoft's software, according to security vendor W...

Article | 29/03/2007 Hackers build private IM to keep out the law

Hackers have built their own encrypted IM (instant-message) program to shield themselves from law enforcement trying to spy on their communication cha...

Article | 28/03/2007 PayPal asking e-mail services to block messages

PayPal, the Internet-based money transfer system owned by eBay, is trying to persuade e-mail providers to block messages that lack digital signatures,...

Article | 27/03/2007 Microsoft picks up UK online advertising client

Microsoft has reached a deal with Piczo, a photo-sharing and networking Web site for teenagers, to supply online advertising for their U.K. site, the ...

Article | 26/03/2007 Belgian company loses lawsuit against Google

A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company that said a feature for Google's search engine offers up password-cracking tools and serial num...

Article | 26/03/2007 Microsoft puts brakes on Soapbox video sharing

Microsoft has put the brakes on its Soapbox video-sharing site while it implements new technology to detect videos uploaded by users that could have c...

Article | 22/03/2007 Hynix, SanDisk announce patent pact, joint venture

Hynix Semiconductor and SanDisk have reached a patent cross-license agreement and will jointly manufacture and sell NAND flash memory in addition to d...

Article | 22/03/2007 Microsoft to release VOIP server beta on Monday

Microsoft will open up beta versions of its unified communications server and client software to the public for download on Monday, a senior company e...

Article | 21/03/2007 Oracle, Sun fixing J2SE bug with E-Business Suite

Oracle is working with Sun Microsystems to fix a bug affecting how the E-Business Suite runs on Windows Vista.

Article | 20/03/2007 Research paper uncovers root of nuisance Web pages

Anyone brave enough to type "cheap tickets" in a search engine can find a plethora of one-page Web sites designed to drive traffic to other Web sites ...

Article | 16/03/2007 CEBIT - Trend Micro to release new software for Symbian

Security vendor Trend Micro will release a new version of its mobile security software for Nokia smartphones next month that adds a built-in firewall ...

Article | 16/03/2007 CEBIT - Sophos to integrate NAC into desktop security

Sophos will weave network access control (NAC) functions into its client antivirus security product, Endpoint Security, over the next 12 months, the c...

Article | 16/03/2007 CEBIT - Malware to fight crime? AV companies say no

What if the good guys started using the tools of the bad guys to catch the bad guys, but other good guys stopped them from doing that?

Article | 14/03/2007 Grisoft releases small business security software

Grisoft SRO rolled out two security products on Tuesday for small businesses that want simple management, the company said.

Article | 13/03/2007 Samsung samples 8 GB flash chip for mobile phones

Samsung Electronics Co. has begun shipping samples of an 8 G-byte flash memory chip, enough to store up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone, the company ...