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News (19)

• US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

  The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb.

• US military to use network warfare to break enemy

  The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

• Cyber-extortion on the rise, warns Schneier

  Noted security expert, Bruce Schneier, has declared that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but has warned importantly that it mainly affects "fringe" industries such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure and other major organisations.

• US Homeland Security still infected with Trojans?

  The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department's IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.

• Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference

  Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to strategise in their fight against cybercriminals.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• Commonwealth Bank: Michael Harte, CIO

  ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

• Plugging holes against cyberattacks

  New political and technological circumstances dictate the creation of a more complete system of information sharing which can inevitably protect individuals.

• Networks must counter triple threat

  Three security threats have taken turns wreaking havoc in the past few weeks. How should MSBlast,Welchia and Sobig be handled?

• Cyberterrorists will be after you

  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.

Reviews (1)

• McAfee's latest do-it-all protective suite

  At AU$119.95, McAfee Internet Security 4.0, the security giant's newest do-it-all protective suite, defends your PC against the two most dangerous cyberthreats: direct hacker attacks and sneaky, behind-the-scenes viruses.

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