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  • Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

    A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.

  • No compensation for 'responsible disclosure': Microsoft

    Paying independent security researchers a bounty for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities is not the best way to protect users, according to Microsoft.

  • Microsoft wants to hire Xbox hacker

    The software giant is seeking an engineer charged with "collecting, evaluating and conducting analysis of modification chips" as part of security research on Xbox hardware and software.

  • Record execs risk arrest for MP3 hacks

    Will US music and movie executives risk jail time if they start hacking into file-swapping systems, as a proposed bill would allow? Maybe if they travel to Australia.

  • The 'homeless hacker' talks

    The past two years have been a wild ride for Adrian Lamo: The 22-year-old has publicly taken credit for tunnelling into networks belonging to Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite@Home and WorldCom.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    McKinnon's magician

    Who exactly is new Westpac IT executive Sarv Girn, who has newly been poached from Commonwealth Bank of Australia? Is he just a point man for the IT integration of St George, or is he "McKinnon's magician", the boy genius who will lead the bank to its IT nirvana?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Baiting the Black Hats?

    The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?

  • Confessions of a naked Mac user

    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    It's phishers, Doctor Jones!

    The new film Firewall is the latest in a long line of Hollywood hacker movies. But how do they rate in terms of accuracy and entertainment value?

Features and Case Studies (41)

  • Kevin Mitnick on hacking's evolution

    To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker." We talk to him about software security, the evolution of hacking and social engineering, and law enforcement's action against hacking.

  • Exposed server--magnet for hack attacks

    The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.

  • Report: Net attacks on businesses down

    Attacks on corporate networks have gone down, but cyber-vandals now have a much larger pool of software vulnerabilities to attack, a report has warned.

  • Linux hacker: What the future holds for Linux

    Part I: A Linux 'kernel hacker' gives his views on the GPL, 64-bit computing and why grandmothers should want to use Linux.

  • Naked network

    You may be enjoying the convenience of a newly installed wireless solution, but how many strangers are doing the same with your network?

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  • Naked network

    You may be enjoying the convenience of a newly installed wireless solution, but how many strangers are doing the same with your network?

  • Mobile phone hacking set to spread: AU experts

    United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.

  • Microsoft moves into chip world with Xbox

    There's a multibillion-dollar company moving into the chip business: Microsoft.

  • Avert your gaze! 8 filtering packages tested

    Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.

  • Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

    Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

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