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".
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.
Users remain the weakest link when it comes to IT security, according to a survey.
A well-known Web site that tracks defacements on other sites by hackers such as PoizonB0x was itself defaced yesterday by a hacker going under the name of ThePike.
Not all hackers are bad--just ask Excite@Home. The company shored up its online defenses after a hacker pointed out a vulnerability in April that allowed access to the company's internal network and exposed nearly 3 million support records to the public.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.
A worldwide hacker confederation is setting up a grid of processing power to crack e-commerce passwords. If you think this is crazy, Wayne Rash says "think again."
Many apps, especially P2P and IM software, install programs in the background that can jeopardise security. Use PestPatrol to detect and remove them.
Passwords increase security, but they can also increase your headaches if they're lost. When a password goes missing, don't panic: just use the techniques and software detailed here to recover it.
During the next few years, heightened security will change the Internet, and the office network on which many of you work. In fact, you'll probably see changes first at the office as companies try to "harden" their information assets against a wide variety of threats.
MAC address filtering is often used to secure older wireless equipment. Is this technique effective? In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you just how easy it is to spoof a MAC address and why MAC address filtering might not even keep out the \"slacker hackers.\"
The first add-ons that purportedly allow the console to play illegally copied game software have gone on sale, but analysts say they're unlikely to inspire a wave of copy infringement.
A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.
Hackers claim they can play games made for the Nokia deck on other mobile phones.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
A computing project has abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
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