Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected but its security features such as User Account Control (UAC) have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its predecessor, Windows XP.
Applications will have to defend themselves from attack in the future, according to Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson.
At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krsti, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.
Banks should stop forcing customers to create long, alphanumeric passwords because they can't protect against today's threats, according to AT&T computing researcher William Cheswick
Queensland police are warning of a rapidly growing type of fraud that uses Russian brides and dating Web sites to con victims into becoming money launderers and drug mules.
Responding to criticism levelled at its software developers by Australia's lead computer security authority, Microsoft Australia said it would attempt to make its products more "resilient" to virus attacks.
User Account Control (UAC), the 'annoying' security feature in Windows Vista, will not stop malware from infecting PCs, according Roger Grimes, a member of Microsoft's software security team.
Scott Charney, who heads up Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are unexpected and not intuitive.
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