Legislation to boost NSW Police covert searching and computer hacking powers looks set to go ahead after facing almost no opposition in the lower house of the NSW Parliament earlier this week.
Major security vendors Symantec, Sophos and Kaspersky yesterday said their products would block legalised hacking attempts by NSW Police under new legislation as they would any other security threat to users.
Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab this week said they would block UK police attempts to hack into people's computer systems without a warrant.
The software update mechanisms used by most BSD and Linux operating systems can be tricked into installing buggy or known-to-be-compromised software on users' systems, creating serious security risks, according to new research.
Cisco is not taking enough action to stamp out the sale of counterfeit products on internet auction sites, according to networking-product resellers in the UK.
In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.
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Renowned security researcher Mikko Hypponen talks to ZDNet.com.au about the pros and cons of law enforcement using hacking techniques to fight crime.
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.
Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?
When administrators and security professionals hear the word rootkit, most think first of a UNIX-based system. Unfortunately, this only leads to a false sense of security for Windows-based systems. The fact is that Windows rootkits do exist, and you need to be able to detect them.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.
Choosing a portable computing device is getting trickier -- we take a variety of devices for a spin and weight up the pros and cons.
Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a respected encryption mechanism for protecting email correspondence. PGPi is available for free, so the main reason for purchasing PGP Personal Security 7.03 would be to obtain the extra features that McAfee provides.
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