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One of Australia’s largest private credit unions is shopping around for ‘rent-a-hackers’ to test the security of its Web site, after the company hosting its online service refused to conduct the testing on its behalf, ZDNet Australia has learnt.
Details have emerged about how Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email account was broken into, including a hacker's claim he was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password.
Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US.
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Norton Internet Security 2007 makes significant gains over last year, including cutting-edge rootkit and behavioral monitoring features found nowhere else, but the overall package could be serious overkill for the average desktop owner.
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