Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.
Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab this week said they would block UK police attempts to hack into people's computer systems without a warrant.
On Wednesday in the US, Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8.
A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.
Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that was designed to root out potential security flaws.
A "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co.
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
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Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
BitDefender Antivirus 10 is a solid antivirus and antispyware solution, offering two-year subscriptions for the price of one elsewhere; however, it could be faster, offer built-in help, and uninstall better.
While Norton Confidential beta from Symantec aims to protect your online transactions, and its antisphishing toolbar compares favourably to Netcraft's own offering, we found the Norton package to be overly large, including many other Symantec applets that seem unnecessary.
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