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  • Hacking outside the box

    How do you protect yourself from the smooth-talking hacker whose only "tools" might be a floppy disk and a smile?

  • McAfee automates Google hacking

    McAfee has released an update to its tool that uses Google to automatically search for security holes in Web sites.

  • Cyberterrorists are the enemy too

    While worms and viruses have yet to threaten loss of life, Rob Fixmer argues that they can be considered terrorist acts. One day, a highly sophisticated worm might throw civilisation into chaos.

  • 2000: The year of the killer hackers

    Year 2000 is ending as it began, with a DDoS attack threatening a large part of the Internet and failing security efforts fueling IT fears.

  • Mobile hackers: Tying up your phone

    Japanese wireless phone giant NTT DoCoMo has warned the company's 24 million mobile Internet service subscribers that a malicious email could be making its way to their phones. Is this another sign hackers are turning their attention to wireless devices?

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Web 2.0 makes phishing spam obsolete

    In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.

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  • Commentary: Virus school?

    It's unwise for security vendors to say they will never hire students who studied virus-writing in school.

  • Turning script kiddies into real programmers

    How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.

  • Viruses: are you vulnerable?

    Figures are showing an increase in the number of viruses and vulnerabilities, but Australian industry pundits warn that we should take these with a pinch of salt. What is the real cost to organisations?

  • Policies of prevention

    Both internal and external security threats must be fought with efficient company policies as much as with the latest technologies.

  • 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.

Reviews (4)

  • Watching the detection

    They may not be perfect, but intrusion detection systems should be a part of your enterprise security arsenal.

  • Microsoft warns of a score of security holes

    Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.

  • Keeping the outside out: Seven desktop firewalls tested

    We all know about firewalls protecting your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? And what if the attack isn't coming from the outside at all?

  • Virus writers: If we can't kill them (and we can't), then what?

    From the reaction to Friday's column --in which I kiddingly called for death to virus writers--it's easy to tell who has had to deal with viruses and who hasn't. People who've spent hours, even days, undoing the work of these computer terrorists, whose crimes inflict tremendous damage on people they can't possibly know, seem to appreciate my viewpoint more than most.

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