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Daniel Koening, a member of the world-renowned hacking group The Chaos Computer Club, is to present at the University of Melbourne's IT security conference SecureCon, to be held from 10-11 February.
Australian researchers have demonstrated a way to prove core software for mission-critical systems is safe.
Corporate security firm Sophos said Monday in the US it had offered US$340 million to buy Utimaco Safeware, a German software specialist in the field of data loss and encryption.
A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smartphones has been disclosed and demonstrated.
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Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.
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