Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
Both sides of politics have an interest in pretending Australian prosperity was their handiwork. But before long, global headwinds will reveal Australia’s true position.
The cloud ERP vendor is starting to move up the software as a service food chain but it will have to surmount a few hurdles before its ready for big time.
In the ultra-fluid technology sector, many an acquisition shock has paid off – and vice versa. Yahoo's big cheque for Tumblr isn’t the only deal that may be judged differently in hindsight.
The Solar 2013 conference in Melbourne carries the theme of an industry trying to prevent a possible race to the bottom, where weaker firms damage the industry in compromising quality for price.
The reverberations from the Newman government’s bulldozing of Queensland’s vegetation protection laws will be felt in Canberra, with the Coalition's Direct Action plan now at risk of a $1 billion budget blow-out.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
With new and dangerous malware infecting our computers every day, there's now a potent argument for cyber security measures that use data and insight gleamed from past infections to help prevent new ones.
Hackers have broken into the computer network of the Polish president's office and attempted to spread a computer virus in the form of an email attachment.
China may be the latest hacking hot spot, as far as the media is concerned, but it is just one of the many participants in the global game of cyber security subterfuge.
Does anti-virus software actually protect a computer from Malware? The question is never debated or raised by security experts, so perhaps it’s just assumed that it doesn't.
US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said on Friday negotiations with the White House on a new cyber security bill have resumed, and the two sides are not "that far apart" after making progress this week.
Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords.
Two major Chinese military websites, including that of the Defense Ministry, were subject to about 144,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds of which came from the United States, the ministry said.
Federal privacy commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has announced that his office will not investigate the privacy breach at an ABC website, which saw passwords and user names of 50,000 viewers posted online.
Hackers targeted dozens of computer systems at government agencies across Europe through a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc's software, security researchers said overnight, while NATO said it too had been attacked.
Cybersecurity company Mandiant Corp won plaudits from its peers and made front-page news around the world this week when it published a report that purportedly traced a series of cyberattacks on US companies to a Shanghai-based unit of the Chinese army.
HTC America, which makes smartphones and tablets that use Android and Windows software, will settle a US regulator's charges it failed to take adequate steps to eliminate security flaws that put millions of users' data at risk.
Microsoft Corp said on Friday a small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware, but there was no evidence of customer data being affected and it is continuing its investigation.
The Federal Government’s plans for a new Australian cyber security centre (ACSC) have been criticised by both Liberal and Labor senators at estimates hearing.
Security software maker Bit9 on Friday said that computer hackers have breached its network, then launched a second round of attacks against some of its customers.
Around 42,000 firms in the European Union, including airports, banks and hospitals, would have to inform regulators whenever their computers are hacked, under a proposed EU law to be published on Thursday.
