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• Google fixes Gmail 'ethical hacker' vulnerability

  Three days after ethical hacker Petko Petkov announced his discovery of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gmail, Google says it has fixed the problem.

• Mozilla releases security updates

  Mozilla has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client for Windows, Mac and Linux users, the organisation announced on Friday.

• Council social engineering test exposes flaws

  Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and helped fix, serious flaws in staff awareness.

• No security silver bullet for Vista: Microsoft

  Despite extensive security auditing and development of Vista, the new operating system will not be free of bugs, Microsoft general manager of product security, George Stathakopoulos, concedes.

• Oracle aims to tone security muscle with Fusion

  Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons.

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• Is Vista security a selling point?

  A raft of security features in Microsoft Vista will help many consumers become "secure enough" but for businesses they aren't going to be the improvements which drive sales -- and nor do they deserve to be, according to some experts.

• Are hired hackers worth the cost?

  There's one way to prove that security is a necessary IT expense: hire hackers to successfully break into your own network.

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