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Security experts and hackers are congregating in Las Vegas this week, as a continual stream of alerts creates scepticism over the industry's effectiveness.
A group formed to set rules for disclosing information about security flaws on Wednesday defended its latest revision and called for researchers to adopt its guidelines.
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.
If you want to level the playing field with hackers, you need to be able to look at your network's vulnerabilities in the same way they do.
Recent findings suggest that open-source advocates' boastings of superior security over proprietary software were premature. Now the open-source community must conduct its own 'trustworthy' campaign.
Though technology is great, we have to make sure we have the human side of security covered if we want to get some sleep at night.
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Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.
Security for wireless could end up more of a mess than security on our PCs, unless we act soon.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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