Storm worm dethroned by sex botnet
Romance is out and sex is in, according to security experts who said the Mega-Dik botnet has ousted the infamous Storm as the most prolific sender of spam.
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Telstra kicks off Next G face-lift
Telstra has launched the first of its Next G face-lifts required by the government since it blocked the CDMA switch-off this month.
Users being milked by recurring contracts: analyst
Business should avoid bundled and discounted software contracts or risk being locked into exorbitantly priced maintenance, support and upgrade cycles.
S Central buys Sanitarium IT service partner
Australian-based IT infrastructure services company S Central has acquired Rich Computing, which services Sanitarium Health Foods across New Zealand and Australia.
ITILv3 proving popular in Australia: survey
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) platform version 3 will be in full operation in half of Australia's IT departments by 2010, according to a survey.
Female IT workers push for flexible workplaces
Top level management must endorse flexibility and facilitate unique work-life balances to attract women to IT, according to female IT managers.
Firefox, Google JARred by hack
Mozilla has taken another security blow with the discovery that Google user accounts can be accessed through a dangerous Firefox exploit.
Users are a bigger headache than hackers: survey
IT managers are more concerned about end-user abuse of IT systems than attacks from hackers and other threats, according to new research.
Bendigo banks on mainframes for green IT
Bendigo Bank will double its datacentre computing capacity by swapping blade servers for mainframes, and is saving more than A$375,000 (NZ$447,000) a year by being more energy efficient with an enterprise-wide green renovation.
Victoria Education inks Australia's largest Vista deal
The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has signed the biggest Vista deal in Australia, which will renew its Microsoft deployment to 1600 schools and offices.
Australian party offers two national broadband networks
Australia will have both national broadband networks proposed by the Labour and Liberal parties if the federal Opposition wins the next election.
Video-conferencing cuts consultant travel costs
Global industrial consulting firm MWH has deployed a video-conferencing solution across three countries to cut down on travel and increase productivity.
Testing times for slack software development
Local businesses are wasting up to 50 percent of software development budgets because they lack the resources, tools and knowledge to conduct efficient software testing, according to market analysts.
Users fail to exploit the benefits of VoIP
IP telephony deployments are failing to deliver the savings and benefits expected prior to rollout, according to customers attending a VoIP panel discussion held in Sydney last week and attended by about 50 delegates.
EDS virtualises its ANZ Unix server farms
EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.