In the second instalment of this two part series, Federal IT Minister Senator Richard Alston talks exclusively to ZDNet Australia about Internet censorship, tackling spam and his future in the IT portfolio.
Have you ever had a bad interview experience? You can learn a great deal about the company’s culture—and why it may not work for you.
You leave a job interview, confident that you're going to get an offer, only to learn that the position went to someone else. Follow these suggestions to avoid interview blunders.
In an interview with ZDNet, Oracle marketing chief Mark Jarvis managed to critique most of the competition. Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel? All history. IBM? A copycat. Microsoft? Vulnerable.
Yahoo has asked the judge in a US lawsuit to dismiss the case against it, claiming that it was bound by Chinese law when it helped identify two journalists in the country that were later jailed for criticising the communist government.
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
Rootkits, which alter the kernel of an operating system and allow malicious code to hide from security software, seem to have stumped the security industry.
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
Discerning thumbs for BlackBerry users are essential to keep away a new threat which can compromise the security of the popular smartphone. Well that's according to Research In Motion's (RIM) Ian Robertson, senior manager of security and research.
The equivalent of an electronic tidal wave -- originating from the Microsoft campus in Redmond -- hammered the ZDNet Australia servers earlier this week.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
A tenured IT manager asks for advice about informational interviews as he embarks on his first job hunt in 20 years.
Have you ever had a bad interview experience? You can learn a great deal about the company’s culture—and why it may not work for you.
Often, departing employees consider an exit interview as an exercise that benefits the employer. But exit interviews can prove to be very valuable in getting that next job or in fostering a possible rehire in the future.
Often, the best advice comes from those who've suffered through the toughest lessons. Here readers share their job interview gaffes to help you avoid making the same mistakes.
A computing project has abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
French Linux company MandrakeSoft takes a step away from the open-source philosophy, with a change to license terms involving customers that want support for a firewall product.
Fire Drop's Zaplet Web service can help you reduce in-box clutter and eliminate long e-mail threads by letting you collaborate with others via e-mail using a single Zaplet message.
Tiny Opera Software on Wednesday continued its campaign to demonstrate the feebleness of mainstream Web browsers, releasing a product upgrade with new features and a customisable interface.
Apple's Safari offers little challenge to Microsoft's browser dominance, but the Mac maker could benefit enormously if it can wean itself from IE.
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