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Spammers celebrate Madonna's 50th bday with special message - Posted Monday, August 25, 2008
Pop-diva Madonna is the highlight of a new round of malicious spam messages, security vendor Sophos has warned. (full story)

National broadband data: who's late - Posted Monday, August 25, 2008
Today is the deadline for Australian telcos to hand over information on their networks so that the federal government can use it in its process to build a $4.7 billion national broadband network. ZDNet.com.au investigated who's on time and who's late. (full story)

Red Hat gets hacked - Posted Monday, August 25, 2008
Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. (full story)

IT workers turn down permanent jobs - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Firms struggling to recruit permanent staff as IT professionals turn to contract work for better pay. (full story)

Google tries its hand at cryptography - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Google is taking a step into the field of cryptography, with KeyCzar, an open-source tool which allows developers to use encryption within their applications. (full story)

Google Street View is in more trouble - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Google Street View is getting into more hot water over privacy matters as its cars drive around the world snapping various things at street level. (full story)

Researcher blackmails Sun, Nokia - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding €20,000 in return for full details of the vulnerabilities. (full story)

How Seven blew the internet Olympics - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Like most of us, I've been watching more TV than usual for the past week, what with the Olympics on and so many interesting ads to watch. Squinting through Beijing's pervasive smog, I've even been able to see some interesting sports as well. (full story)

Apple grows Australian market share - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Apple's share of the Australian personal computer market has jumped sharply in the last year, according to statistics released this week by Australia's two largest technology analyst firms. (full story)

VMWare bug causes worldwide chaos - Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company's latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. (full story)

Virtualisation benchmark wars break out - Again - Posted Friday, November 23, 2007
Benchmark wars are back as VMware rebutted Oracle's claim that its newly-released virtualisation hypervisor is three times faster than VMware's. (full story)

The hack of the year - Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Swedish hacker tells how he infiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the internet. (full story)

Businesses saying no to Vista still - Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Enterprises not following through on formerly 'aggressive' OS deployment plans. (full story)

Forget Coonan's brand of broadband - Posted Monday, August 06, 2007
The Minister is misleading the Australian public over the performance of the broadband network the Government opted for, writes Stephen Conroy. (full story)

Telstra sues Coonan over $1b cable fund - Posted Monday, August 06, 2007
Telstra has saved until last its most damaging blow against the Federal Government this week - taking the Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, to court for her decision to award its rivals almost $1 billion. (full story)

PDFs can't always be trusted: security vendors - Posted Friday, August 03, 2007
Security vendors have warned e-mail users to be as vigilant about PDF attachments as they would for other documents, after seeing a sharp rise in spam embedded within PDF documents. (full story)

Surveys contradict on Aust IT infrastructure - Posted Friday, August 03, 2007
An American survey has ranked Australia's IT infrastructure as amongst the best in the world, in stark contrast to a recent OECD study that labelled Australian broadband, a key component of IT infrastructure, as one of the slowest and most expensive systems in the world. (full story)

Is the demand for desktop Linux negligible? - Posted Friday, August 03, 2007
There's been much fanfare about Linux replacing Windows on desktops but we've yet to see any major adoptions take place -- this may have something to do with the fact that in Australia, none of the major PC manufacturers have offered Linux as a pre-installed option. (full story)

ISPs to blame for new worm affecting MSN users - Posted Friday, August 03, 2007
ISPs could kill a new worm that is spreading rapidly via MSN Messenger, according to security experts. (full story)

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