The Australian government has no plans to issue a warning similar to that of the US, which has warned its tech-savvy residents against so-called "patriotic hacking".
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Identity theft is now the largest form of white-collar crime in the western world, but not because the Internet has made it easier to steal personal information, according to Al Trujilio, president of secure destruction service provider, Recall Corporation.
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How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.
Extra activity on TCP port 12345 has experts wondering. Is it Trend Micro customers who have yet to patch known vulnerabilities, script kiddies or an Internet X-file?
GreyMagic is at it again. Following its discovery of the D-Day flaw in Internet Explorer last month, the security company has delved further into IE and come up with nine new flaws that could expose important data to hackers.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.
Internet Explorer is broken, and the bad guys know it. As you type, criminal hackers could be recording your bank login and password information. Robert offers some tips for staying safe online.
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The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.
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