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  • Special Report: Cybercrime Down Under

    What types of cybercrime occur in Australia and what are the authorities doing to combat the problem? To what extent is this new form of crime impacting on our lives and our livelihood? How exposed is your business to the threat of cybercrime and what can you do minimise the risks? Learn more in the first part or our Cybercrime Down Under special report.

  • Virus writers get slapper happy

    Internet vandals have continued to modify the recent Slapper worm and have sent at least four new variants of the hostile Linux program into the electronic wilds.

  • Worm 'storms' Microsoft servers

    A program created to automatically overload Microsoft's Web and email servers has been discovered on several corporate networks and may have spread further on the Internet, according to antivirus researchers.

  • New worm 'adores ' Linux

    The third Linux worm in less than three months hit the Internet this week. Known as the Adore worm, the program is designed to create so-called back doors in the security of Linux systems and send information identifying the compromised systems to multiple email addresses.

  • Death of the Internet greatly exaggerated

    Security experts downplayed media reports that an "electronic jihad" aimed at Israeli Web sites will start Thursday.

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  • Windows Superguide 2000

    We’ve upgraded and so should you. Here’s our Windows Superguide with the straight story--much of it undocumented--about how to make Windows 2000 work for your business.

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