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• Spoiling a wireless hacker's day

  Security tools, features and protocols offer greater protection than ever before. But how do companies reduce the risk of hackers accessing Wi-Fi or 802.11 wireless networks?

• Payback time! How to catch a hacker

  A new service from McAfee will soon let you discover whether anyone is hacking into your system, and if so, let you submit that information to the malicious user's ISP or local law enforcement officials.

• Ruxcon: A security conference with a difference

  From mysterious men on rooftops with telephoto lenses, to attendees trying to use -household appliances to launch non-conventional buffer overflow attacks", the inaugural Ruxcon IT security conference in Sydney had it all.

• IT managers ignorant of emerging net threats: Websense

  Most information technology managers are ignorant of emerging Internet threats, a survey by employee Internet management software provider Websense said today.

• Concern grows over browser security

  Browser-based security threats are on the rise and may pose the next significant risk to information technology operations, according to a technology trade association.

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• Knowledge is power against hacker schemes

  Most IT managers neglect to tell users how to avoid falling prey to the dangerous hacker technique of social engineering. Here's what you need to know.

• Spoiling a wireless hacker's day

  Security tools, features and protocols offer greater protection than ever before. But how do companies reduce the risk of hackers accessing Wi-Fi or 802.11 wireless networks?

• IT users in password hell

  Heavy users of technology now employ nearly two dozen passwords to gain access to various IT systems and Web sites--but are compromising security by writing them down.

• Security's pathetic while management's apathetic: Ernst & Young

  A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.

• Security pros: Our defenses need work

  Though most corporate security professionals see network protection as critical, they have only made modest gains in securing their companies, according to a report.

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