International consultancy group Gartner has asked clients hit by the Code Red and nimda worms to consider alternatives to Microsoft’s IIS
Australia and New Zealand are key partners in Echelon, the satellite spying system whose existence is still being denied by US authorities, a European Parliament report has concluded
When disaster strikes, Brent Woodworth is usually not far behind. Floods, earthquakes and bombings are his business. His résumé includes labouring at the scene of 70 catastrophes, natural and man-made — earthquakes in Turkey, flooding in Peru, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — as the head of the IBM crisis response team
When a Cleveland-based business-to-business start-up failed several months ago, executives planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay off workers, sell assets and reimburse creditors. Employees had a different plan. Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld computers, monitors and laser printers. That left some executives, venture capitalists and other uninsured creditors in a financial lurch
In the past two weeks, the Internet’s role as the ultimate source of unmediated news has been matched only by its notorious ability to breed rumours, conspiracy theories and urban legends
An emerging high-speed Internet standard in Europe holds potential for faster download speeds and broader availability for many US businesses — if they’re willing to wait a while. Although DSL speeds vary widely, the new G.SHDSL could be two to three times faster than most versions of DSL targeted at business customers. The G.SHDSL standard also can deliver data farther than earlier DSL technologies, which are limited to a relatively short distance
One of the greatest fears computer owners face is the risk of someone breaking into their home and stealing their investment. The effects of data loss alone can be devastating. At last there is a very effective method of protecting your personal computer
Local Internet users experienced delays of more than two hours Thursday after two undersea communications cables broke. The SEA-ME-WE3 — South East Asia, Middle East, Western Europe — cable operated by US telecommunications company, MCI, and AT&T/British Telecom’s ChinaUS cable, were apparently broken by a ship’s anchor in the relatively shallow water of the continental shelf 30 kilometres off Shantou, China
Flexible displays that mimic paper are moving a step closer to reality this week, as a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company opens what it is calling the first facility dedicated to develop the technology
Telstra’s BigPond ADSL service had a weekend wrought with problems, with users experiencing data flow difficulties and trouble browsing international Web sites. And the problems set to continue, with the telco revealing further planned outages
With .com .org .net and all the other GTLDs under its firm control, the Real ICANN is now snuffing out independent country code domains and putting them under the same contractual assurances that GTLDs are. This has just begun with the Australian country code domain that has been taken away from Robert Elz, an Australian university professor who had done the task for free for more than 10 years. It has been taken without cause, without hearing, and without due process
Farmers could soon be relying on robots to stop their crops being eaten up by hungry slugs. The creators of the robot hope it will eventually be able to recharge its batteries using power generated from the decaying bodies of the slugs it has caught
British authorities have asked all phone companies and ISPs to preserve communications data stored Tuesday in case they contain important clues to the identity of the terrorists who attacked Washington and New York
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, US, say they have developed a way to record mouse movements on a page and learn how people behave when they are on the internet
Researchers have found that control programs based on the foraging behaviour of ants can keep data networks running more efficiently and cope with congestion better than many human alternatives
Four of Australia’s biggest telecommunications companies, Optus, AAPT, Macquarie Corporate and Primus, have banded together to challenge the pricing power of industry incumbent Telstra
Telstra is boasting about its lowest complaints tally in three years, but the industry ombudsman says that’s only because there haven’t been enough operators to take calls
There are only nine Australian Federal Police officers to cover the forensic investigation of cybercrimes countrywide, and local companies are still skimming off the cream of the crop in their own fight against data criminals
Mindstorms, Lego’s high-tech robotics kit, was an immediate hit. And after hackers cracked the operating system, it became an even bigger hit. Now Lego is left with a conundrum: Leave well enough alone, or sue the bastards?
News-hungry surfers bogged down the Internet’s infrastructure, searching for information about the tragedy and contact with loved ones. Affected companies, such as those housed in the collapsed World Trade Centre and the airlines whose jets were hijacked for use in the attacks, posted information and referrals on their often-clogged web sites
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