Victorian energy company SP AusNet announced yesterday that it had chosen Motorola to build a WiMax network to connect the smart meters it is rolling out to 680,000 customers.
National Broadband Network Company executive chairman Mike Quigley has told staff from Queensland Public Works and ICT Minister Robert Schwarten's department that it may not select a single state to become the central headquarters of the company.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called for tenders to build the $250 million backhaul telecommunications links, which target six regional centres in all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has hired executive search firm Egon Zehnder to find the board and chief executive to lead the National Broadband Network company.
Do Mac OS X users really need antivirus? ZDNet.com.au recently posed the question to security professionals at the AusCERT 2009 IT security conference on the Gold Coast.
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Australia's largest annual security conference, AusCERT, is underway for another year, and continues the tradition of bringing security gurus, vendors and members of government under one roof.
Hannover Fairs' giant CeBIT conference is on at Darling Harbour again this year, and our photographers were there to catch all the action. Check out the biggest booths, the weirdest tech, and the giant smiles welcoming potential customers.
Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
What this new NEHTA funding has done is ensured that its leaders feel vindicated in the way they have behaved they have essentially been 'patted on the head' and any real stimulus for 'root and branch' change has been lost.
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AusCERT 2009 delegates discuss whether Mac OS X users really need antivirus.
ZDNet.com.au's Matt Oxley takes you behind the scenes at Australia's largest security conference. Find out why Microsoft's head of product security was afraid of being arrested, watch delegates swing at sheep on the driving range and discover who thinks security is like being chased by a bear or is it a dog?
At this year's AusCERT conference, delegates enjoyed a gala dinner in the Royal Pines resort with entertainment from Tripod. Here is the whole evening in 39 seconds.
At the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast, ex-NSA staffer Brian Snow, told ZDNet.com.au that software can be secure -- but only if vendors overhaul their development processes.
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.
From a do-it-yourself perspective, we're mostly unimpressed with AMD's new 2.5GHz Phenom X4 9850 quad-core desktop processor.
The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.
Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.
Pioneer's DVR-A06 offers a great out-of-the-box DVD burning experience, with a solid software selection and speedy reliable writing to boot. Check out our Australian review.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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