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  • Bin Laden Trojan quickly constrained

    A Trojan-carrying spam e-mail that purports to offer pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden tricks few Internet users.

  • Outrage at Bill Gates' knighthood

    The honorary knighthood awarded to Bill Gates by the Queen is about as popular with ZDNet readers as the Blue Screen Of Death.

  • Bin Laden tape hits the Web

    Snippets of a purported new video clip of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appeared on the Web on Friday, shortly after the clip was broadcast on the Arabic language Al-Jazeera TV network.

  • 'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' recruits a zombie army

    A Trojan horse disguised as CNN pictures of Osama Bin Laden committing suicide is being distributed on the Internet

  • 'Atak' worm linked to Al-Qaeda sympathiser

    A second variant of the Atak worm, which goes to sleep to avoid detection by antivirus software, has been linked to an al-Qaeda sympathiser who once threatened to release a powerful worm if the United States attacked Iraq.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • Bin Laden Trojan quickly constrained

    A Trojan-carrying spam e-mail that purports to offer pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden tricks few Internet users.

  • Technology and the 9/11 Commission

    The former United States undersecretary of state for security says that identity authentication is crucial to stopping terrorists.

  • PGP creator: Surveillance must be curbed

    Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future.

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