A new early-warning system that proactively notifies banks, online businesses and other organisations of fraudulent email scams that target their customers has been launched in Australia and New Zealand by IT security vendor Sophos.

A new ICT scholarship package has been launched in Victoria to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to break new ground in the ICT industry.

Secure Computing has bought CyberGuard, in the latest big consolidation move in the security market, to help it improve its capability of protecting data as it flows through the network.

Despite Microsoft's reputation for providing poor protection against worms and viruses, Forrester Research has praised the company for responding well to the recent Zotob worm, which brought networks to its knees.

Interwoven has bought Scrittura, a provider of document automation technology and straight-through-processing for complex non-exchange based trading operations of financial services and institutions, in a bid to help these organisations pr...

Almost as many people blame Microsoft for this week's worm attacks against businesses across the globe, which exploit a newly discovered vulnerability in the software giant's code, as the virus writers themselves.

Toshiba has released a new 1.8-inch hard disk drive based on perpendicular magnetic recording that can hold 40GB of data on a single platter to provide greater storage capacity for workers.

The Australian Information Industry Association has launched a new guide to help small-to-medium enterprises develop marketing strategies so that they will find it easier to grow their businesses.

EMC has agreed to buy Rainfinity for US$100 million to provide a service that aims to reduce the complexities of management of NAS and file system environments that they are used to experiencing with SANs.

A research project created through the efforts of Perth's Curtin Business School (CBS) and Sun Microsystems has formed a computing grid linking three continents.