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Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:36

iPhone impacts as mobile Internet growth surges

Fuelled by the impact of the iPhone, mobile websites are attracting increasingly more Australian consumers looking for on-the-go information on everything from breaking news, sport, entertainment, celebrity gossip and, even predictions for the future with their personal horoscope reports.

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Monday, 13 July 2009 16:27

Spammers exploit Michael Jackson death

Spammers and malicious code authors have created and launched several new spam and malware campaigns using the death of Michael Jackson as a cover for their infected emails.

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Monday, 13 July 2009 14:37

New technique used in ATO phishing attacks

Spammers have employed a new technique in their phishing attacks on the Australian Taxation Office website in an attempt to snatch tax refund details from users of the site doing their tax return online.

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Thursday, 09 July 2009 18:44

The necessity of a Google Linux operating system

Search giant Google has announced the development of Chrome OS. This is a significant announcement and means good things for Linux.
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 10:04

Increased threat from short URLs: Report

There’s been a huge rise in the use of shortened URLs by spammers which poses a greater security threat to Internet users, including those accessing popular social network sites like Twitter.

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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 13:35

A billion reasons to be wary of emails from Australia!

A staggering one billion malicious emails orginate from Australia every day of the week as spammers push out their emails to Internet users, enticing them to buy discounted pharmaceuticals, replica watches, greeting cards, or to sneak a peek at naked pictures of pop star Rhianna.

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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 07:08

Riding the Net risks drive-by malware download attack

Drive-by download malware is still the most often downloaded nasty by Internet users, with vulnerabilities in Adobe and Microsoft products often the stalking horse of the trojans spreading infection around the Web.

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Thursday, 25 June 2009 15:08

Buy & sell site takes on eBay in own backyard

An Australian who describes himself as an entrepreneur claims he’s taken on the online auction, buy and sell giant eBay, giving users of his website – SOC Exchange – an opportunity to make some quick cash with his new “innovative” membership rewards program.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:24

It's a plane, it's a bird, no it's Superwoman in the cloud!

Salesforce.com has deployed its website development cloud solution – Force.com Sites - for the first time in Australia with Superwoman, an Australian financial services company dedicated to women.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:49

Fake Facebook emails warning!

Symantec has followed-up its recent report warning of an increasing trend to phishing attacks on Facebook, with a new warning for Facebook users to beware of fake emails attempting to steal login details to use their account for launching future phishing attacks on unsuspecting social networkers.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:03

Twitter phishing hit, as spam infiltrates 90% of all emails

Spam levels climbed to nearly 90 percent of all email last month with some worrying new trends emerging, like the booming Twitter site being used as bait to phish for information.

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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:39

Beware, malware by stealth stalks the net!

All is not what it seems on the Internet for those users unlucky enough to be duped by scammers posing as online payment services in order to steal your most private of personal information, including credit card details.

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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:46

HyperVM boss hangs himself after exploit damages 100,000 websites

Does a zero-day hacker have the death of one man and one hundred thousand websites on his or her conscience today?

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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 14:23

Australia.com named best tourism site

Many of the critiques and previews of the movie Australia - starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and hailed as a great tourism ‘showcase’ of downunder -  were less than complimentary, but not so Tourism Australia’s website – Australia.com – which has just been voted by the global web community as the world’s best tourism website in the Webby People’s Voice Awards.

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Sunday, 31 May 2009 10:52

YouTube, Blogspot security 'ineffective', claims Websense

New research findings have revealed that Google’s YouTube and Blogspot community-driven security tools are 65 to 75 percent ineffective in protecting Web users from objectionable content and security risks, according to a claim by Web security vendor, Websense.

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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:50

Australia fourth on spam league table

Don’t worry about the swine flu epidemic there’s another epidemic - whilst not potentially fatal in human terms – which does, however, continue to plague the Internet with increasing ferocity.

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Monday, 11 May 2009 08:26

Macquarie wins on performance!

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has selected Macquarie Hosting, in a three-year managed virtualized hosting deal to support its planned growth in online ticket and merchandise sales and a push into the online travel, entertainment and accommodation market.

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Thursday, 07 May 2009 09:29

Trojans remain the biggest e-threat

Trojans continue their proliferation and spread across the Internet, still dominating the list of the most pernicious threats facing Internet users, according to BitDefender in its April survey released today.

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Monday, 27 April 2009 19:48

PayPal launches new programme in Australian market

Global online payment service, PayPal, today announced a new programme for the Australian market which it claims will boost e-commerce uptake in Australia, by allowing local organisations to get online and take advantage of the Internet to open up new revenue streams.

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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 09:05

AVG releases free link scanner download

AVG reckons on any given day around the world something like two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats, and the security firm has just released a free link scanner download which it says will protect Internet users against these “random, invisible online threats”.
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