News (9)

  • Australian anti-spam legislation tabled in parliament

    New anti-spam was introduced into the House of Representatives today that allows for penalties of up to AU$1.1 million per day for sending spam, and Senator Alston has called on the United States to follow suit with similar legislation.

  • New password stealing Trojan discovered

    E-mail security provider MessageLabs has discovered a new password stealing trojan, however at this stage the company is still treating it as a low-level threat.

  • Taming the Web

    Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.

  • World's first wireless virus

    The first virus to infect a handheld organiser has been reported in the form of a tiny file that rummages through Palm handheld computing devices, ruining their capabilities.

  • A worm virus epidemic

    The publicity last week surrounding the Melissa and Papa macro viruses and the copycat attacks that followed doesn't bode well for the future of Microsoft Word and Excel in their current forms. It's been known for years that the architecture of these products, featuring embedded macro capabilities, is a bad idea and needs to be changed.

Features and Case Studies (1)

Reviews (2)

  • Shock! Viruses in Digital Music

    You know not to open e-mail attachments from suspicious recipients. But what about playing a song from someone you don't know? Turns out that's another way to infect your computer with a virus.

  • Son of spam: 4 spam filtering packages tested

    Can you trust software to block all the spam your company receives? We evaluate four top spam filtering packages for their accuracy.

Create an e-mail alert for "government"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
government


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

ZDNet's CIO Vision Series

Video | Optus CIO Lawrie Turner

In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

Back to top

Featured