Security researchers have suggested that like food, browsers should have a best-before or expiry date. This comes after revealing that 637 million internet users are surfing with outdated and unpatched browsers, which puts them at risk from Web-based attacks.
Credit card users will be given the option of entering a PIN as an alternative to signing their name to authenticate a transaction under a banking industry initiative scheduled to start today.
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Businesses should rethink perimeters, shed the firewall and allow people to "skinny dip" on the Internet, according to security and communications researcher, William Cheswick.
Former privacy commissioner Malcolm Crompton says governments are not doing enough to attract citizens to use their online services due to an overly risk-averse and closed-minded approach to liability and privacy.
Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected but its security features — such as User Account Control (UAC) — have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its predecessor, Windows XP.
A copyright complaint pushes Google to remove an open-source project to let Linux use proprietary video decoding software called CoreAVC.
As the NSW government looks to go after some AU$90 million from the ERG Group over the state's cancelled Tcard project, ERG says there's only AU$17 million at stake.
Commander has taken the next step in its turnaround plan by selling a recent acquisition, telecommunications reseller and network service provider Nexon, back to its previous owners.
IDC has measured the size of the "digital universe" -- all the digital data stored globally -- and it is 10 percent bigger than first predicted and will be 10 times bigger again by 2011.
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.
Virtualisation is a method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on one computer. Here is how to migrate a physical server to a virtual version.
Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.
This guide is aimed at helping small and medium businesses stay safe.
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In the next few years, a "phase change" will take place as companies stop running their own customised computing infrastructure, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos predicted Thursday.
Rich Anderson, an instructor at Dunwoody College, has put together a gallery of wild and crazy ways to use your laptop.
Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
We look at eight mail-server plugins designed to make sure your servers don't take a beating the next time one comes along.
Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
Flash memory maker M-Systems announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to provide storage products for future versions of the Xbox, bolstering speculation that Microsoft may ditch the game console's hard drive.
Company officials say the new Nocona processor won't be in desktops anytime soon.
Why overclock a processor? We examine why you'd want to overclock a CPU and how to do it for the Intel Celeron and P4 processors.
The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
Shoe boxes are for shoes. That's Adobe Systems' message as the publishing software giant pushes a new consumer version of Photoshop, its flagship image-editing software.
The safest way to exchange instant messages (IMs) is to stay within the enterprise, but in most cases the IM cat is already out of the bag, and security staff are playing catch up.
In the future, Deborah Estrin says "nanometer-sized sensors will track the path of pollutants, and "smart buildings" will adjust their bearings to avoid earthquakes. Believe it, or not?
Last week's blog on why consumers might be confused by contradictory messages on computer security from banks drew a few objections from interested parties — ones that I thought would be worth responding to this week.
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
Telstra mobile code reader
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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