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  • Vic CIO's office: We're still here

    Victoria's state Office of the Chief Information Officer has maintained it will continue to fulfil its original role despite structural changes after the state election late last year.

  • Vic deputy CIO role hard to fill

    Victoria is still lacking a permanent deputy chief information officer, with a number of executives briefly acting in the position since the departure of Steve Hodgkinson in July.

  • Delaney minds Vic's deputy CIO role

    Victoria has temporarily promoted an internal staffer to its state deputy chief information officer role as it looks for a permanent candidate following the departure of Steve Hodgkinson last month.

  • Deposed CIOs face unique challenges when looking for jobs

    Due to restructuring, acquisitions, or downsizing, many CIOs have found themselves pushed out of the role they worked for years to achieve. Two members tell stories of dealing with downsizing and finding work in a difficult economy.

  • 80,000 Domains at Risk: DNS problems plague Australia

    About 75 percent of Domain Name System (DNS) servers in Australia and New Zealand are vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks and 55 percent may be compromised at the root level, a security company has found.

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  • Deposed CIOs face unique challenges when looking for jobs

    Due to restructuring, acquisitions, or downsizing, many CIOs have found themselves pushed out of the role they worked for years to achieve. Two members tell stories of dealing with downsizing and finding work in a difficult economy.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Cisco fixes latest WLAN snafu

    Wireless local area network (LAN) products from Cisco Systems are under fire again after the release of a software tool exploiting an old vulnerability, but the company says it has a new protocol that fixes the problem.

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