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• Klez reaches epidemic proportions

  Rampant virus Klez, which has spawned a number of variants, is predicted to cause Australian IT professionals headaches for months to come.

• Pentium 4 loophole could let in hackers

  Intel is acting to calm fears that technology in its Pentium 4 processors will allow hackers to steal passwords by reading 'footprints' in the cache.

• Security experts slam 'Australia Card 2' idea

  Security experts and privacy advocates unanimously agree that ID cards will not protect Australia from terrorist attacks, despite Attorney-General Philip Ruddock saying the 'key reason' for an Australian ID card would be 'national security'.

• Your worst security threat: Employees?

  More than a third of the worst computer system security breaches at UK companies are from employees, according to recent government-backed research.

• British parliament 'attacked' using WMF exploit

  The British Parliament was "attacked" late last year by hackers who tried to exploit a recent serious Microsoft Windows flaw, security experts confirmed on Friday.

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• Klez reaches epidemic proportions

  Rampant virus Klez, which has spawned a number of variants, is predicted to cause Australian IT professionals headaches for months to come.

• 'Complacent' companies slammed for poor security policies

  A survey of IT security managers and administrators, found that 54 per cent believe their organisation is not doing enough to combat cybercrime.

• Terrorism threat to Net overblown

  Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."

• Top 10 worst IT disasters of all time

  From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years

• Latest MyDoom worm exploits Web site guestbooks

  A new variant of the MyDoom worm discovered on Tuesday downloads malware from an MP3-downloading site and a personal Web site, according to security experts, who claim that hackers have compromised these sites by exploiting scripting vulnerabilities in their guestbooks.

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• Windows Server 2003 gets first patch

  Less than two months after launching its Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft has released a security patch to fix a vulnerability that could let malicious sites run damaging code on the server.

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