Stories about: Westpac

The CSIRO ICT Centre announced today the spinoff of its Panoptic enterprise search technology to form a new company, dubbed Funnelback Pty Ltd.

Three of the big four Australian banks rely on Microsoft's IIS as their preferred Web server, a technology renowned for being insecure and a preferred target by hackers.

A Web site passing off as the ANZ bank’s official site was closed down by Australian and US police this morning following an e-mail scam asking ANZ bank customers to reactivate their online accounts.

Originators of the squatted URL that provoked Westpac Banking Corporation into calling in the Australian Federal Police have posted a blog denying involvement in the circulation of a hoax e-mail at the centre of the dispute.

Only a week after Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer hit Australian shores to appease twitchy customers, IBM has jetted in its chief Linux salesman John Vitkus in a concerted effort to open the hearts, minds and wallets of Australian banks and financial institutions to penguin-flavoured solutions.