The IT security industry is failing to keep up with the smarts of criminals developing malware, according to IronPort Systems vice president of technology, Pat Peterson.
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world's e-mail messages.
The MyDoom Internet worm had a negligible affect on Australian corporate and government networks, according to Queensland computer security information body AusCERT.
The creator of Snort, the open-source Network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul.
Microsoft is gearing up to hold another series of security summits in Australia amid concern over a serious IE flaw and criticism of the time taken to deal with security issues.
The equivalent of an electronic tidal wave -- originating from the Microsoft campus in Redmond -- hammered the ZDNet Australia servers earlier this week.
Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world's e-mail messages.
Microsoft is gearing up to hold another series of security summits in Australia amid concern over a serious IE flaw and criticism of the time taken to deal with security issues.
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