Stories by Hamish Barwick

Google Australia lays out future Street View privacy measures

Google Australia has moved to reassure Australians that any future Street View mapping will comply with privacy laws and not collect Wi-Fi data.

Identity theft, e-fraud top Australian security concerns: Unisys

Financial fraud, identity theft and environmental disasters lean more heavily on Australians’ minds than national security threats, according to a Unisys report.

VHA looks to NBN trials for network improvements

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has announced plans to join mainland trials of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Armidale, NSW to improve the performance of the network.

EFA, APF call for greater access to personal information

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) and the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) have highlighted the need to strengthen the Privacy Act 1988 and make information held by a company available to end users.

New Zealand Parliament denies DDoS attack

The New Zealand Government has denied reports of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the New Zealand Parliament website over the weekend, despite cyber activist group Anonymous claiming responsibility for outages.

Fujitsu ramps up data centre investment

Data centre provider, Fujitsu, has outlined plans for two new data centres in Australia, as demand for its Cloud services has grown.

Treat cyber crime as an act of war: IT lecturer

A war is raging right now in cyberspace and Australians need to arm themselves accordingly against online criminals, according to one expert.

Applications to move beyond mobile devices: Alcatel-Lucent

The possibility of purchasing services and applications through devices ranging from a mobile phone to a TV could become a reality, according to Alcatel-Lucent's digital economy vice president.

Kaspersky progress with local data centre this year

Russian anti-virus vendor Kaspersky is expected to move to a new co-location facility this year as it moves to choose a new site for a purpose-built independent data centre in either Victoria or Western Australia.

Email viruses creep up as spam falls in April

Malicious emails took the lead from spam as the biggest cyber threat in Australia during April as targeted attacks continued to rise.

In pictures: Inside Verb IT's POD data centre

Thirty local business users took a tour of Verb IT's HP performance optimised (POD) data centre at Wyong on the Central Coast.

Check your Cloud SLAs: Longhaus

Local chief information officers and IT managers would be wise to take a closer look at their service-level agreements with Cloud providers following the Amazon EC2 service outage in eastern United States over the weekend.

NSW fraud squad, Privacy Commissioner investigating Sony PlayStation breach

The NSW Police fraud squad has urged Australian users of the Sony PlayStation Network to look out for phishing emails following a data breach compromising the personal details of up to 77 million users worldwide.

Amazon Cloud outage bad for business

Outages to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings over the weekend have received plenty of global coverage, but they left at least one Australian business frustrated.

Life in the IT fast lane: A chat with AT&T Williams' IT manager

When you're IT manager of a Formula 1 racing team, getting time to watch all the races is something of a luxury. Forget about travelling around the world with the pit crew to exotic locations, too.