Stories about: NAB

Google said Monday that it complied with Indian legal process when it gave police information about a user of its Orkut social networking site. With the IP (Internet Protocol) address of a person who had allegedly posted vulgar content about Sonia Gandhi, one of India's top political leaders, on Orkut, police in Pune were able to arrest a suspect.

Since establishing a technology risk and security team more than two years ago, the National Australia Bank (NAB) has delivered a scathing report on the insecurity of enterprise software, including that provided by information security vendors themselves.

Penn State University researchers have created technology they say can nab computer worms more quickly than traditional signature-based systems and speedily set free the traffic if it's determined to be harmless after all.

A shift to Linux-based grid computing at the National Australia Bank has opened the gate to a more agile IT infrastructure and dramatically reduced maintenance costs, according to one of the bank's senior technology strategists.

Fresh after the version 10.1 release of its OpenSuSE Linux operating system, Novell users hosted an installfest in Sydney this week where a number of enterprises fired up the penguin for the first time.

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl and Python may have taken the Web by storm but the lesser-known Ruby has stepped up to overthrow the might of Microsoft's .Net at search portal schoolseek.com.au.

Institutional trading houses and banks may not wear penguin migrations on their sleeves but the shift to open source within the world's dealing rooms is so pronounced that British Telecom (BT) is now shipping only one flavour of a fully converged trading console - Linux.

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.

Conventional wisdom about IT vendor takeovers is completely missing in Novell Inc.'s US$210 million cash deal to purchase SUSE Linux AG. That makes me uneasy.

Looking to steal some business from Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. announced a program Monday intended to lure customers from Microsoft's e-mail server and onto Oracle products.