Oops: It’s been a day of expensive humble pie for Ruslan Kogan as he decides to honour hundreds of massively discounted orders made thanks to a “web bug”, but in an additional gesture of goodwill is making free shipping available until midnight.

Normally happy to shout from the rooftops, Kogan has instead made a statement post his first major money-sucking site snafu and says he is “not available for further comment”.

With Australia’s multicultural “Special Broadcasting Service” or SBS TV network the latest major company to see its site attacked by hackers and modified to deliver malware, the loudly ringing security wake-up call ratchets up a few decibles more.

According to research by Dartmouth and Minnesota researchers, the websites of manufacturers of prescription drugs have “an unpredictable mix of information and promotion” even though they are supposed to be regulated by the FDA.  

It's long been understood that slow page loading can drive visitors into the arms of competing sites. Now Compuware reckons it can put a dollar value on your site's performance.

Last Friday the popular Australian recruitment web site SEEK hosted a position vacant for a software developer that, among more technical requirements, should ideally have DD cup breasts and a slim waist.

Only days after the Spanish government awarded a 12m Euro contract to maintain the content and security of its EU summit web site the site has been hacked by none other than the bumbling Mr Bean.

In the past few days, a significant number of Australian small business website owners were contacted by people claiming to be from anti-virus vendor McAfee, promising to increase traffic to their site.

Australian hosted recruitment software provider, RecruitAdvantage, is presently facing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its online TurboRecruit product. The company has taken parts of its sites offline, affecting customers and jobseekers nationwide.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came to power on top of a raft of election promises, one of which included laptops for high school students. While the deployment was not without controversy thousands upon thousands have now been distributed in NSW. Yet, forum postings reveal students are using them for game playing and online chat right in front of oblivious teachers.