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    SunnComm Technologies said that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key.

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    In this special report for ZDNet Australia Lance Spitzner, the founder of the Honeynet Project, explains why honeypot technologies are set to become a commercially relevant and acceptable intrusion detection methodology.

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    At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain "Trojan horse" code this year.

  • Cyberterrorists are the enemy too

    While worms and viruses have yet to threaten loss of life, Rob Fixmer argues that they can be considered terrorist acts. One day, a highly sophisticated worm might throw civilisation into chaos.

  • Special Report: Cybercrime Down Under Part 2

    What's a hacker, and are they the same as a cracker? What threat are these types of people to business in Australia? Are they the key to cyber criminal activity or could they be the first line of defence for your organisation? Discover what makes a hacker and what makes them want to hack in the second half of our special report on Cybercrime Down Under.

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    Baiting the Black Hats?

    The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?

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  • Security showdown: iPhone vs Google Android

    Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.

  • Honeypots: The next intrusion detection solution

    In this special report for ZDNet Australia Lance Spitzner, the founder of the Honeynet Project, explains why honeypot technologies are set to become a commercially relevant and acceptable intrusion detection methodology.

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