Computer Networks News
Man charged over net sex blackmail
Thursday April 1, 2010
A MAN who allegedly blackmailed teenage girls as young as 13 for sex was yesterday arrested in Collingwood.Hacker gets 20 years
Saturday March 27, 2010
BOSTON. A computer hacker from Miami who orchestrated one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in US history has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.Cyber attacks take aim at the heart of the American empire
Tuesday February 2, 2010
Al-Qaeda demonstrated on September 11, 2001, how a handful of scruffy extremists could use asymmetrical warfare to damage key US assets. Now imagine that the asymmetrical warfare against the US is being waged not by a few fanatics but by one of the world's most powerful nation states.It is an irony and a largely forgotten piece of history that 'hacktivism' is a Melbourne innovation.
Monday August 3, 2009
ONE of Melbourne's lesser known cultural innovations came full circle at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week. MIFF's web site has been repeatedly targeted by Chinese hackers who defaced it and clogged its communications.New skills to Skype about
Thursday July 30, 2009
The technology offered by many schools is a fast-track to the workplace of the future, writes Fran Molloy.Three Cheers For The Second R
Tuesday July 29, 2008
SCHOOLS fall over themselves to sell high-tech education to prospective parents. Some boast of extensive computer networks and laboratories.Combating E-crime
Saturday April 5, 2008
WAR has been declared on cyber bandits hellbent on sending computer networks large and small - not to mention entire countries - into meltdown.Chinese Waging Online Spy War
Sunday February 10, 2008
CHINESE computer hackers have launched several targeted attacks on highly classified Federal Government computer networks, prompting an internal review of IT security.Lebanese Networks Will Work
Wednesday September 6, 2006
LEBANON'S economy needs to be rebuilt. Again. But from where will the money come? The Lebanese diaspora, those of Lebanese descent who live outside Lebanon, will be a big source. Some of the world's richest men have Lebanese backgrounds and, surprisingly, many of the big business families of Latin America and West Africa are Lebanese. As a group, there are parallels with the overseas Chinese, an entrepreneurial migrant minority aided in their success by cross-border family networks.Pouring Over Your New Computer
Tuesday January 11, 2005
A whole world of possibilities is unfolding for computer scientists, says Nathan Cochrane.