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  • 'Alternative' security conference set to return

    The organisers of the Ruxcon security conference, which drew over 300 attendees from all over Australia to the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) campus in May, will run a second conference in 2004, an organiser has told ZDNet Australia.

  • Police turn to security experts at cybercrime conference

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has called information security experts to its own cybercrime conference to help it better investigate electronic offences.

  • AU: Feds praise "alternative" security conference

    The Australian Federal Police are taking firm steps toward forging closer ties with the underground hacking community as evidenced at a recent security conference.

  • Aust hackers launch security conference

    A self proclaimed "security conference for the Australian hacker community by the Australian hacker community" will take place in April, with attendees descending on the event from all over the country.

  • Ruxcon: A security conference with a difference

    From mysterious men on rooftops with telephoto lenses, to attendees trying to use -household appliances to launch non-conventional buffer overflow attacks", the inaugural Ruxcon IT security conference in Sydney had it all.

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  • 'Legacy' viruses still a threat

    Anti virus experts speaking at the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference have told delegates old computer viruses are still a threat.

  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

  • Yahoo tries to out-Google Google

    Yahoo continues to struggle behind Google in the US but in Australia, it's a slightly different story -- NineMSN, the partnership between Kerry Packer's PBL and Microsoft, remains a major stumbling block for the online giant.

  • Microsoft meets the hackers

    In the name of education, Microsoft invites security researchers to infiltrate Windows systems.

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  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

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    Very little makes a conference room look more leading-edge than a large, thin, flat display for presentations. If that's the kind of impression you want to make, the 42-inch NEC PlasmaSync 42MP2 plasma display, from NEC Technologies, will do the job.

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