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  • Staff threaten network security from home

    Companies are being exposed to risks by home workers' bad behaviour online, such as hijacking the neighbour's Wi-Fi and opening unsafe e-mails.

  • Aust IT salaries poised to rise

    Information technology salaries are poised to rise as the tech employement market bounces back in 2004, according to a survey released by Michael Page Technology (MPT).

  • 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.

  • Aust and Kiwi CIOs bank on higher budgets

    Australian and New Zealand chief information officers (CIOs) expect IT budgets to increase by 3.6 percent in 2005, higher than last year's 1.2 percent and well above the 2005 global average of 2.5 percent, according to Gartner.

  • Survey says e-commerce servers still vulnerable

    A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.

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  • 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.

  • Survey says e-commerce servers still vulnerable

    A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.

  • Survey: Security budgets on the rise

    A report has found that more than half the companies surveyed had increased their information-security budget in the past year.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

    As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

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