Telstra is warning BigPond customers of potential delays accessing international web sites, following the severance of its main cable out of Australia, SEA-ME-WE-3
Australia’s first super-network has survived a punishing test, running high-end 3D and video applications without any loss of quality against a traffic load equivalent to Sydney’s phone system at peak-hour. The maiden voyage of the 10Gbps Ethernet, dubbed Super-Net, showed that a faster, more reliable internet is possible
Software giant Microsoft was met with incredulity when it went to Canberra to present a privately formulated blueprint for the Australian information technology industry
Computer scientists and IT specialists are on the FBI’s most-wanted list as it seeks to hire 900 new special agents this year
Sun Microsystems has joined a program called Auto-ID to build wireless digital identification tags into everything from razor blades to soup cans
A buffer overflow attack — an attack in which the amount of memory allotted to an application is overrun — against the Telnet service could cause a denial of service, or in some cases, allow the attacker to run any code they wanted in Windows 2000 or Interix 2.2, Microsoft says in its alert
Sun Microsystems Chief Scientist Bill Joy says an ambitious security push outlined by Bill Gates last month is likely to fail because of fundamental flaws in the security design of Microsoft applications
Despite facing massive user criticism over claims that it’s product quality is sub-par, Nokia Australia has confirmed that prices for its mobile handset prices are likely to rise this year
MSN Australia has admitted users remain at risk from a privacy hole, despite having known about the vulnerability since Tuesday
A security researcher will detail a bevy of software flaws in Oracle’s flagship database at the Black Hat Windows Security Briefings in New Orleans this week, busting up the company’s promise that the program is unbreakable
Telstra came under fire on two fronts yesterday as it moved to shut down a budget e-mail service and charge some small businesses up to $126 as part of a White Pages directory revamping
IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again
Coders around the world will be flexing their digits over the coming weeks in an effort to write software whose sole purpose is to propagate across the internet and battle similar pieces of code to the death
Telstra will ditch up to 70,000 Easymail users amidst claims that the low-cost service is in the death throes of a dwindling customer base and no longer commercially viable
An anonymous hacker known online as Tron is Hollywood’s latest villain — the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard drive, and from there burned onto recordable DVDs
Some web sites hosted on AOL have been hit by outages, leaving their webmasters unable to update, view or transfer files on their home pages
Three New Zealand universities are planning legal action against two offshore web sites selling fake degrees in their names. The web sites are offering fake degrees branded Canterbury, Auckland and Otago universities
Electronic security experts have warned that businesses are failing to protect credit card details, putting customers and finance providers in danger of fraud
Two privacy organisations are slated to unveil Trusted Sender, a new e-mail certification program, Thursday designed to quash Spam by bringing consumer trust to commercial e-mail
Fears are growing once more that companies operating on the internet may not be equipped to ward off electronic sabotage after anonymous hackers forced a small British firm out of business
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