Stories about: Victoria University

FreshTel Holdings Limited [ASX: FRE] and telecommunications provider Star-Tech Communications have partnered in a plan to bring VoIP services to several Australian universities.

Early and extensive deployment of firewalls gave internet users "a false sense of security" and compromised the ideal end-to-end transparency of the internet, says former Internet Engineering Task Force head Brian Carpenter.

Owen 'Akill' Walker's bot code is considered among the most advanced bot programming encountered by international cybercrime investigators, according to the police summary of facts.

Universities from Australia and around the world are taking part in the Google Online Marketing Challenge; a competition aimed at providing tertiary students with 'hands-on' experience in online advertising.

Microsoft is working on a fix for an eight-year-old flaw in Windows that lets hackers exploit a Web proxy autoconfiguration protocol and take over groups of machines via a single attack. Microsoft has yet to release the update it has been working on since last week that addresses the vulnerability in the Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol (WPAD) in Windows.

The winner of the New Zealand Computer Society's (NZCS) annual Wellington-based honors student research contest has claimed his award by uncovering shortcomings in accessibility of government Web sites for disabled and other disadvantaged users.

Even seemingly safe web addresses are rife with attack code aiming at vulnerable clients, according to a new study from the Honeynet Project. The study also found that methods such as blacklists can be surprisingly successful in stopping client-side attacks.

In a strategic move for dominance of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) space, SAP has come up with a training program that it hopes will guarantee its market pervasion for years to come.

The University of Canterbury in New Zealand will be the first research institution in the southern hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer it announced today.

Feature requests from users has seen a small open source content management system for intranets evolve into a modular business process management tool which its makers claim is unique among enterprise software.

A Victorian initiative aimed at attracting secondary school leavers to careers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is inviting students to a series of interactive sessions with recent graduates and industry figures.