Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.
Cybercrime fighter Eugene Kaspersky can't help but be impressed by the slick operations behind the Conficker botnet, and says that it could have been worse had the botnet been after more than just money.
Hackers have started to target specific government personnel, as opposed to simply using broad scattergun approaches, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service warned this week.
I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.
At what point does one achieve the status of cultural icon? Let's be honest: socialite Paris Hilton is an icon, Larry Ellison isn't -- although techies and geeks might disagree about the Oracle honcho.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
It comes at no surprise to learn that HR people use IT certifications to choose between candidates when hiring, but in some organisations it can also inhibit career advancement.
It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
With the start of the new year, it's time to take a shot at predicting the key trends that will define the field of information security in 2006.
The debate over the relationship between ISPs, customers, and Internet security is definitely a complicated one, but who should bear the responsibility for protecting users online?
The browser company's success could be a case study about how boring could be better.
Once you've calibrated the colours using the bundled PerfectSuite Plus software, the VP950b will deliver exceptional image quality. All that's left to consider is whether a 19in. display with a native resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 pixels is adequate for your professional needs.
There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years.
BenQ's attractive FP767-12 delivers enough image quality for typical home use, but it isn't quite all it's cracked up to be for gaming and video.
Budget-minded business buyers should take a close look at Dell's well-featured Latitude D505, which introduces Intel's cut-down Celeron M processor.
The ultraportable ThinkPad X31 provides a depth of features in a compact format that's suitable for serious travellers.
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