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  • Woman loses $54k to "Mr Right"

    Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $US50,000 ($A54,095) by a Nigerian man who said he was her Mr Right.

  • Govt agency denies unauthorised inmate Net access

    Officials have denied an inmate at a NSW prison could have used contraband computer disks to access the Internet.

  • Defense asked to hand over Iraq images for Web

    A government watchdog group on Wednesday asked the US Department of Defense to release three CD-ROMs with digital photographs and video clips of prisoner abuse in Iraq.

  • Yahoo urges dismissal of China lawsuit

    Yahoo has asked the judge in a US lawsuit to dismiss the case against it, claiming that it was bound by Chinese law when it helped identify two journalists in the country that were later jailed for criticising the communist government.

  • NZ Corrections dept opens its door to IT specialists

    The Department of Corrections, one of New Zealand's biggest government IT users, is fishing for new contractors but remains vague on how lucrative its proposed outsourcing deal will be.

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  • Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

    Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • The Internet worm comes of age

    The first Internet worm appeared 16 years ago and online security has never been the same, say security professionals.

  • Is hard time for worm author too harsh?

    Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?

  • Webmaster held on terror charges

    The publisher of two pro-jihad Web sites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, US investigators said on Friday.

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  • CES: Tech gets cooking

    It's a microwave oven! It's an Ethernet port! At the Las Vegas show, gadget makers decided the hottest tech niche was in the kitchen and put the "appliance" back in "Internet appliance."

  • How to stop your PC from spying on you

    Viruses may be on the decline this year, but other threats--like Trojan horses and spyware--are on the rise. We tell you how these pests work--and how to protect your system from harm.

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