Stories by Tim Lohman

Privacy Commissioner clears Sony over PSN hack

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia should have acted more quickly to notify customers of the data breach occurring from the hacking of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity platforms in April, the Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner has said.

CSG receives takeover offer

ASX-listed IT services company CSG (ASX: CSV) has informed the market that it has received a non-binding off-market takeover offer to acquire all of the issued fully paid shared of the company.

iVEC acquires Fornax supercomputer

Australian academic supercomputing consortium iVEC has acquired another major supercomputer, Fornax, to be based at the University of Western Australia (UWA), to further the country’s ability to conduct data-intensive research.

IT departments to become services brokers

IT departments must come to terms with their new future as services brokers or face being increasingly marginalised within their own organisations, according to Thorp Network, John Thorp.

DDoS is Cloud's security Achilles heel

Cloud providers and customers are ignoring the importance of securing online services against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at their own peril.

DoHA gets data warehouse in order

Australia’s National Health Reform (NHR) initiative has taken a step forward with the announcement that it will shortly begin the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) overhaul component of the initiative.

Network trust and security in doubt

The decommissioning of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) across Australia over the next few years could accelerate the deterioration of one of communication technology’s most valuable assets: Trust.

Slideshow: ASG's Perth data centre

ASG Group has opened the doors to its new Perth data centre which will underpin the listed IT services company’s SaaS and cloud services offering in coming months

ASG launches Perth data centre

ASG Group has opened the doors to its new Perth data centre, which will underpin the listed IT services company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud services offering in coming months.

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