Commonwealth Bank of Australia's extended internet banking outage earlier this year affected the remuneration of its top technology tsars, including chief information officer Michael Harte, the executive revealed today.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has had a rough couple of days; with high levels of traffic forcing it to take its internet banking service down at times. But what was really going on behind the scenes?
Do Mac OS X users really need antivirus? ZDNet.com.au recently posed the question to security professionals at the AusCERT 2009 IT security conference on the Gold Coast.
A Northern Territory IT worker who caused millions of dollars of damage to government systems has reportedly been jailed for three years.
Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs' US website was hacked over the weekend exposing the company's customer database, but Kaspersky has denied data was compromised and says the vulnerability wasn't critical.
In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
Mac users should heed the call and realise that root user stupidity can always subvert any security in place.
I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.
When creating a secure, locked down IT system for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?
A "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co.
The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.
What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.
Virtualised desktop environments, in some cases using Linux, are gaining in popularity as IT administrators realise they can deliver security advantages. We tell the story of one Australian government department and take you through the landscape.
How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?
Internet Explorer 8 takes some long-needed strides to bring it up to speed with its competitors. It's more secure, with tab sandboxing and more aggressive malicious site warnings, and introduces some slick new features like Accelerators and Web slices. Even with better support for web standards, it's far from perfect.
At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson talks about three security trends he believes will significantly impact the tech industry in the years to come. He predicts that malicious software will outnumber legitimate software; identity management will grow far beyond the enterprise; and digital-rights management will become...
Wondering which endpoint security suite keeps your clients the most protected? Enex TestLab racks them all up and puts them through their paces.
Norton AntiVirus 2010 builds on the immense progress made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
Norton Internet Security 2010 builds on the immense progress it made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 provides adequate protection, but the program itself could use some work in telling the user what's going on.
You can't beat the price. For a good, basic internet security suite, we recommend Trend Micro Internet Security 2009.
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