Enterprises may be aware of the legal changes which have modified torts law and imposed caps on payouts for seemingly outrageous claims against doctors and other professionals. But do IT pros realise that they too could be in the firing line?
Critical security questions answered in the second part of this series include holding data to ransom, scaremongering, Internet law, spammers making money, the uber-virus, and spyware at home.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
Business sites that foster community trust, such as eBay, may serve as template for tomorrow's online campaigns, experts say.
Proactive measures need to be taken to bring down high tech crime rates, according to detective acting inspector Peter Wheeler from Melbourne's Computer Crime Squad, following today's release of the 2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey.
Always a contentious topic, we look at server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
Microsoft is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE program manager Brian Countryman in an interview posted on the software giant's Web site.
Privacy advocates fear that a Web monitoring tool that is under development may lead to more covert surveillance.
Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.
Proponents are touting the benefits of alternative top-level domain names. But are there any benefits for businesses? ZDNet Australia investigates the pros and cons.
The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".
Employers should avoid possible affront to employee dignity, as well as the negative health effects associated with e-mail surveillance, argues Michael Gadiel from the Labor Council of NSW.
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