Brett Winterford

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One of Australia’s most prolific journalists, iTnews editor Brett Winterford has written about the business of technology for over ten years.

Awarded Business Journalist and Technology Journalist of the year at the 2004 ITjourno awards and Editor of the Year at the 2009 Publishers Australia 'Bell' awards, Winterford has extensive experience in both the business and technology press.

In the business press, Winterford has penned some 75 articles in the Australian Financial Review, as well as numerous features for Management Today and Charter – a trade press magazine published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

He has also worked as the News Editor of ARN and penned technology feature stories for MIS, CIO, Voice and Data, Technology and Business, Australian Personal Computer and ZDNet.

Brett's areas of specialty include enterprise software, cloud computing and IT services.



Recent articles by Brett Winterford

Users to ‘flag’ terrorist web pages under EU proposal 

Users to ‘flag’ terrorist web pages under EU proposal

An exercise in crowdsourcing counterterrorism.
Who can access your e-health record? 

Who can access your e-health record?

Plenty, but nobody specifically.
StratFor subscriber base posted to the web 

StratFor subscriber base posted to the web

Thousands of Australians exposed.
StratFor hack: 50,000+ victims, and counting 

StratFor hack: 50,000+ victims, and counting

AntiSec movement threatens to release 2.7 million emails.
No Facebook privacy from media 

No Facebook privacy from media

Users offered no safety from Facebook-trawling.
Telstra resets 60k passwords after privacy gaffe 

Telstra resets 60k passwords after privacy gaffe

Accounts indexed by Google.
$45k stolen in phone porting scam 

$45k stolen in phone porting scam

Scammers steal identity, redirect banking verification codes.
Australia's eHealth record a security 'disaster' 

Australia's eHealth record a security 'disaster'

AusCERT chief warns of need for new approach.
Is Microsoft's Office365 vulnerable? 

Is Microsoft's Office365 vulnerable?

Comment: Microsoft still uncertain on root cause of outage.
Fortescue Metals irons out cloud security 

Fortescue Metals irons out cloud security

Mining company looks to extract value from Office 365.
End user group lists cloud computing demands 

End user group lists cloud computing demands

Open Data Center Alliance blueprint aims to cut IT budgets by 15 percent.
Analysis: Can encryption bring banks to the cloud? 

Analysis: Can encryption bring banks to the cloud?

Regulation might drive the finance sector to lead cloud adoption.
Exclusive: Epsilon locks down with grid pattern log-in 

Exclusive: Epsilon locks down with grid pattern log-in

'Strong authentication' introduced to stamp out further data breaches.
Opinion: Time for Amazon to pay up over outage 

Opinion: Time for Amazon to pay up over outage

The future of AWS hangs on how Amazon responds to the Easter outage.
Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage 

Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage

Described as the "worst outage in cloud computing history".
DSD provides checklist for agency cloud computing 

DSD provides checklist for agency cloud computing

Advises agencies to consider nuances in cloud contracts.
Perth firms phreaked by VoIP hackers 

Perth firms phreaked by VoIP hackers

WA Police warns businesses to change passwords.
Health Records tender attracts huge interest 

Health Records tender attracts huge interest

Deadlines slip as IT suppliers call for more data.
Epsilon breach used four-month-old attack 

Epsilon breach used four-month-old attack

ReturnPath had warned partners of breach in November.
Comment: Public cloud is only a matter of trust 

Comment: Public cloud is only a matter of trust

Contracts offer few protections for corporate users.
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