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Fast learners
We're in the midst of a revolution that is changing the way we teach and learn, with wikis, new approaches to e-learning, education mash ups, and virtual worlds the new order.
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The Web's security seams set to burst
By: Beverley Head
19/02/2008 11:58:21
Social networkers' haste to post personal data has cybersharks circling
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Internet security: just wishful thinking?
By: Information Age staff
19/02/2008 11:37:09
Malware, adware, viruses and spam continue to assail users everywhere as the Internet continues to be a dangerous place - and it's getting worse.
While security vendors struggle even to stay in touch with an accelerating tide of threats, professional criminals are gainfully exploiting millions of computers, governments and businesses are recruiting specialised hackers to wrest away others' secrets and malware writers are winning their war.
The extent of Australian computer crime is hard to gauge as there's no requirement for it to be reported.
However, the fact that more than a billion dollars was spent on trying to find and seal holes in the security fences here and in NZ shows that the problem has got industry attention.
In this survey our writers here and overseas look at the panoply of dangers out there, what is being done to create a bulwark against them - and where the battles have simply been lost.
There's little to cheer looking down the security road for the next year; elsewhere in this issue, Neil McAllister looks at the top 25 technoflops of all time. Security came out at the top of his list.
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Mature IT management means getting on with it
By: Beverley Head
15/02/2007 11:52:20
There comes a time when the "to do" list induces paralysis.
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Cover story - 2005: Tech everywhere - but who will use it?
By: David Braue
14/12/2005 12:39:36
It was a year of mobility, wireless and virtual IT resources, the decimation of Telstra and the rise of big-money mergers. All reshaped the direction of the IT industry - but, David Braue asks, what does it mean for Australia's ICT industry?
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