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    Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security.

  • Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading user's brains

    Despite the Sasser worm, PCs are now safer than they were four years ago - but only if users observe basic precautions, say security experts.

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    A quick-thinking British tourist, adrift on a floundering ship in heavy seas off Indonesia was rescued after sending an SOS mobile phone text message to her boyfriend in England.

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  • Lessons to be learnt from Sasser

    We had the tools to stop the worm dead in its tracks, but it still exacted a high toll in lost productivity, and in the case of the sailors at sea around the coast of England, created a real risk to life.

  • Mesh: The next step for wireless

    Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

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