These days, more and more people are choosing to avoid the tacky tinsel and Christmas carol muzak by hitting the Internet to buy presents for their nearest and dearest. ZDNet Australia looks at the online shopping boom expected to take place this holiday season.
NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, has revealed details of a new project encouraging citizens to capture video and photographic evidence of crimes on their phones and upload it over the Web to law enforcement agencies.
Educating staff about IT security risks and measures they should take to avoid compromising system integrity is a critical enterprise activity, according to a senior federal government security official.
Storage and security vendors used to come from different worlds -- but in the space of 18 months, Symantec merged with Veritas and EMC acquired RSA Security. So how do you feel about trusting the same vendor to store and secure your corporate data?
Computer security specialists RSA and Computer Associates have been called "stupid" for sending e-mails containing masked links, which are often used in phishing attacks.
It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
Managed security service providers are gaining momentum in Australia. Can outsourcing security secure your company?
Intel plans to announce a new network processor that will handle security functions, a move it expects will reduce the cost and improve the performance of networking equipment.
A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like?
Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?
It is a hard one to protect against, as attackers prey on the kindness of strangers, but there are some tips to prevent your company being a victim to social engineering ploys. Also: Hackers: Under the hood
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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