Brett Winterford

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One of Australia’s most prolific journalists, Brett Winterford has written about the business of technology for close to 15 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 worked for the Australian Financial Review, and Charter – a trade press magazine published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

He has also penned technology feature stories for CIO and ZDNet.

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



Recent articles by Brett Winterford

Analysts: Anonymous to decline in 2013 

Analysts: Anonymous to decline in 2013

Security vendor finds hacking group predictable.
Comms Alliance says SMS 'unsafe' for bank transactions 

Comms Alliance says SMS 'unsafe' for bank transactions

Comms Alliance calls on Australia's banks to use other technologies.
Home buyer funds hit in phone porting scam 

Home buyer funds hit in phone porting scam

Real estate trusts targeted.
Clean IT attracts wider European momentum 

Clean IT attracts wider European momentum

Organisers eye global expansion.
EC mulls internet terrorist database 

EC mulls internet terrorist database

European governments outline partnership with internet industry.
AusCERT2012: Measuring ROI in fighting bank fraud  

AusCERT2012: Measuring ROI in fighting bank fraud

Australia's online fraud rates don't always justify the investment
Inside AusCERT's Cybercrime Symposium 

Inside AusCERT's Cybercrime Symposium

Australia's InfoSec stakeholders rub shoulders.
Cisco says mea culpa on bounced emails 

Cisco says mea culpa on bounced emails

Claims problem fixed.
Having trouble sending email?   

Having trouble sending email?

Updated: Cisco IronPort blacklists thousands of legit Aussie IP addresses.
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.
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