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Since the New York Times reported last week that Chinese hackers had been attacking its computers over the past 4 months, it now transpires that the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Bloomberg News…
The federal government and the CSIRO announced this weekend a new $400 million ($40 million a year for 10 years) research project to boost Australia’s digital economy by an estimated $4 billion-a-year…
Two UK men were sentenced to jail last week for their involvement in launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on several websites, the most notable of which was that of PayPal. The attacks…
The recent tragedy of Internet activist Aaron’s Swartz’s suicide cast the spotlight directly on MIT’s actions in dealing with this case. MIT’s actions were totally at odds with their rhetoric of being…
Everything about the suicide last friday of 26 year old Internet activist Aaron Swartz is tragic. Not only to those that knew him or knew of his actions but those who have discovered this only now through…
In the UK, the Office of Fair Trading estimated that in 2006, 3.2 million adults fell prey to mass marketed scams and lost 3.5 billion GBP. In Australia, consumers are estimated to have lost $1b in 2008…
It is that time of year where, amongst other things, we will all be formulating our New Year’s Resolutions that are always as aspirational as they are sadly fleeting. In one survey the top resolutions…
Apologies first of all - the actual discussion is going to happen on The Guardian at 12 GMT - however, I will update the main points that people make here. The discussion is, in a nutshell, a live debate…
Since the launch of the massive open online courseware (MOOC) phenomenon, universities not involved in one of the three main platforms have been trying to decide how they should respond. The concept of…
How much do you rely on instant messaging services like Google Talk? One way to find out is for the service to go down around the world as it has done today. Quickly trending on Twitter, the impact seemed…