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    Hackers are using blogs to infect computers with spyware, exposing serious security flaws in self-publishing tools used by millions of people on the Web.

  • Secret agents invade your PC

    When software companies update your computer, are they also stealing information without your permission? The latest security threats aren't hackers or worms, but phone-home applets embedded in your systems.

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  • Spying on spyware makers

    This researcher has spent years analysing how spyware programs work. His findings have been published and has resulted in red faces and, occasionally, lawsuit threats.

  • The threat of Browser Helper Objects

    A feature in Internet Explorer allows attackers to hijack secure financial transactions from unsuspecting users. Australian banks targeted include ANZ, National, and Westpac. How can you protect yourself?

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  • Netscape 8

    If you haven't looked at Netscape in a while, version 8 is worth it for its added security and extra features.

  • Pop those pop-ups: Six packages tested

    Fed up with pop-up ads? We review six ad-free browser apps, each with its own method of removing annoying solicitations.

  • System Mechanic 7 Professional

    System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.

  • Peer pressure: 10 P2P utilities tested

    Despite the RIAA's efforts to shut down file-swapping services, these 10 apps carry Napster's torch.

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    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
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    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
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