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Wired for trouble
 A handful of journalists checking out the technology behind the scenes of the Australian Open tennis tournament last week stood transfixed by a computer. On the screen was what looked like a simple computer war game: a world map showed a stream of cyber threats to the US-based computer servers that run the tournament. Some were low-level, probably innocent threats that could easily be batted away. Others were serious, large-scale, deliberate assaults, attempts to infiltrate the servers, even bring them down. The attacks, rendered in real time, came from Asia, South America, North America, Europe, Australia - everywhere - and not once did they pause. Wha...
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