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    Regardless of recent advances in portability, many of us are still searching for the seemingly impossible: a mobile phone, PDA, and PC all rolled into one small pocketable item. Will this ever exist?

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    Overloaded with PINs, sick of passwords, and forever losing your access keys? BioID has just launched a one-step authorisation process in Australia that does away with old-style security measures and leaps into the future of biometrics. Now all you need to do is smile and say "cheese".

  • Another Internet Explorer flaw found

    A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.

  • Home PC users wake up to need for firewalls

    Home PC users are starting to catch on that surfing the Net requires a certain level of protection, security software makers say.

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    Two software bugs in the popular mIRC program for real-time chatting could give online vandals access to millions of computers.

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  • Is that a PC in your pocket?

    Regardless of recent advances in portability, many of us are still searching for the seemingly impossible: a mobile phone, PDA, and PC all rolled into one small pocketable item. Will this ever exist?

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    Hackers are increasingly focusing on Apple's Mac OS X, and the number of newly discovered vulnerabilities has surged. Such a switch could mean big implications for Apple's user base, which has traditionally not had to concern itself too much over security.

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    A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.

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  • Is that a PC in your pocket?

    Regardless of recent advances in portability, many of us are still searching for the seemingly impossible: a mobile phone, PDA, and PC all rolled into one small pocketable item. Will this ever exist?

  • Sony SNC-DF80P

    This is an intelligent day/night network mini-dome camera that offers a good range of features for its price.

  • BlackICE Defender

    Connected 24/7? BlackICE Defender, the firewall for the rest of us, will keep hackers at bay.

  • Two-headed hard drive aims for security

    A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.

  • Antivirus hardware: 3 appliances tested

    If e-mail security is giving you headaches, before you turn to voodoo magic, try one of these hardware appliance solutions.

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