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  • Photos: AusCERT 2008

    The AusCERT 2008 security conference takes place in the Gold Coast this week. If you couldn't make it, here's what you're missing.

  • AusCERT prepares for biggest ever conference

    Australia's best-known security conference will open for business on Monday and organisers say this year's event should be the biggest ever.

  • AusCERT 2007: Complete coverage

    News and video interviews from AusCERT, Australia's premier security conference. Hear from myriad speakers including the Queensland Police, Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, IBM chief security architect Anthony Nadalin, and Microsoft's security chief George Stathakopoulos.

  • AusCERT sees decline in electronic attacks

    Over the past year there were significantly fewer electronic attacks than over the previous 12 months, according to the latest version of an annual survey coordinated by the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT).

  • OLPC achieves 2km range in 802.11s tests

    A tester for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested wireless technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km

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    Do aliens and God affect your IT security budget?: Interview with Richard Thieme

    Cyber-criminals, God, the universe, mafia, aliens, Nazis and IBM -- these are just some of the subjects touched upon when ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia interviewed Richard Thieme at the AusCERT security conference in Queensland last month.

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    It's not lovely code, it's an ugly monkey

    At the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast, ex-NSA staffer Brian Snow, told ZDNet.com.au that software can be secure -- but only if vendors overhaul their development processes.

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    Why security appliances can make you less secure

    Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.

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    Is desktop security broken beyond repair?

    At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstic, 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.

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    AusCERT 2008: Behind the scenes

    ZDNet.com.au's Matt Oxley takes you behind the scenes at Australia's largest security conference. Find out why Microsoft's head of product security was afraid of being arrested, watch delegates swing at sheep on the driving range and discover who thinks security is like being chased by a bear or is it a dog?

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