Technology

Australian e-commerce security company eSec has partnered with US-based security-software developer and trainer Foundstone to bring Foundstone’s Ultimate Hacking: Hands On course down under

Telstra’s troubles have accelerated, with service difficulties on its ADSL broadband network spreading nation-wide

Software piracy could cost Logicworld as much as AU$250,000 — the largest penalty to be slapped on an Australian company to date

Australia’s fastest submarine data link to the United States, Southern Cross Cable, was hit by another outage last night

Cable & Wireless Optus is providing the technology for an ACT Department of Urban Services trial aimed at preventing crime, particularly car theft

In Europe, mobile phone operators hope users will pay to have targeted SMS messages delivered directly — so you have to pay to receive advertising, what drugs are these people on?

Dell Computer has quietly stopped offering the Linux operating system as an option on its desktop and notebook PCs, saying that low demand forced the company to pull the software from its online stores

It’s not likely that users will soon see modems that exceed 56 kilobits per second on store shelves, but it is not impossible. Internet service providers are slow to adopt V.92, the International Telecommunications Union’s latest modem standard, but technically, modems can go faster

The latest encryption designed to stop CDs from being copied has already been broken

A New Zealand inventor has put a home-made pulse jet engine on a go kart — a man in search of an embarrassing headline

A break in the Southern Cross cable, Australia’s fastest overseas data network, off the coast of Sydney will take up to 12 days to repair and leave thousands of users in the lurch

Last week, Dmitry Sklyarov, a PhD computer science student from Russia, came to the United States to share knowledge and information regarding serious security flaws in Adobe software with fellow developers. He was promptly arrested

Search engine portal Google has removed links to pages that could allow crackers to automatically explore the Web for a specific vulnerability in e-commerce software

AOL Time Warner‘s $100 million investment in e-tailer Amazon.com this week highlights an emerging, high-stakes battle between the media giant and Microsoft. Long-time foes in areas such as instant messaging and online access, AOL and Microsoft are facing off in the e-commerce arena — specifically over technology that makes it easier to navigate the Web and make purchases online. So-called e-wallets — which store commonly requested information such as a login name, shipping address and credit card number — are shaping up as a key leverage point for controlling how consumers and businesses use the Internet

Microsoft is working on Farsite, a fail-safe computer file storage technology which saves your files on hundreds or thousands of networked PCs — call me sceptical, but I just can see myself trusting storage technology developed by the dodgy brothers at Microsoft

Earlier this month, Bruce Blair, president of the Centre for Defence Information, a non-profit military research organisation based in Washington, DC, wrote that Russian nuclear scientists last year found a bug in Microsoft’s SQL Server database software that threatened the security not only of Russian nuclear weapons materials, but also of US nuclear materials

Telstra BigPond broadband usernames and passwords have been breached, following a Trojan attack that affected at least sixty nine users over the weekend