This Week's Top Stories The denial-of-service attacks reached previously unknown magnitude, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second. | LIA TIMSON 9:32am | Australians are yet to feel the impact of the world's largest cyber attack reverberating around the world, but the unprecedented event highlighted the fragility of the internet. | Would the world collapse? Would there be rioting in the streets? What would happen to your Facebook friends? Brad Howarth reports. | ASHER MOSES | Seed funding for tech companies is plentiful right now, writes Asher Moses. | Security Wells Fargo & Co on Tuesday said its online banking website was experiencing an unusually high volume of traffic that it believes stems from a denial-of-service cyber attack. | Brian Krebs | The author's first person account of when a cyber attack came knocking on his door. | Brian Krebs | Skype constantly exposes users' internet addresses to the entire world, allowing criminals to better target cyber attacks and rivals to locate people. | Public Sector Petrina Berry | Queensland's health payroll inquiry has drawn breath after a fortnight of intensive hearings. | Transfield Services will take part in the national broadband network in Sydney under a $170 million two-year deal. | | | Advertisement  Business IT Overhaul Trevor Clarke | Legacy systems dating back to 1950s, data centres and more in two-year wide-ranging reform after AXA merger. Innovation Sylvia Pennington | Having shaken up the world of bricks-and-mortar retailing, technology entrepreneurs are using cut-price online offerings to disrupt pricey professional services such as law and recruitment. Strategy Cynthia Karena | Technology organisations are realising that government security certification can open doors to the wider business world. Implementation Trevor Clarke | How to avoid the common traps when undertaking big data projects. Profile Matthew Hall | Innovator, technology entrepreneur, millionaire, author and child of the Cultural Revolution. There is much about Ping Fu to inspire business leaders. Matthew Hall caught up with her in New York. Advertisement  More Mobility Rhys Evans | OPINION The IT department doesn't always know best, says a tech chief. The BlackBerry Z10 has just gone on sale, and BlackBerry loyalists will like the improvements that come with the new smartphone and operating system. Buyouts Michael Dell told his executive team Dave Johnson would remain a close and personal adviser when he left in January. Hardware New line of faster servers, the latest step to revive a shrinking hardware division and shore up a core software business. Buyout Investors have spoken to Oracle's Mark Hurd about running Dell, source says. |
