Unwary Windows XP users can have entire directories emptied of files simply by clicking on a hyperlink, according to an Australian security researcher.
COMMENTARY--There is no doubt in my mind that when OpenWares.org released a patch for a bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser it was trying to make a statement.
A malicious program that masquerades as a Web page or HTML email has dire consequences for those who fall for its ruse, according to antivirus experts.
Cisco has issued two sets of patches for vulnerabilities in its wireless networking software.
The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers to focus more attention on looking for vulnerabilities in other desktop applications, such as Abobe's Acrobat Reader, experts told delegates at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco on Wednesday.
In August, Microsoft released a dozen security bulletins, rating nine as critical threats. (The remaining three are important threats.) With that many updates in a single month, how do you know which ones to concentrate on first?
Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.
The state of Internet law was in flux in 2001. Lawyer Doug Isenberg says that if any lesson has emerged, it's that the same thing will probably remain true for 2002.
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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