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• Fujitsu narrows storage focus

  Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.

• Android phones expected shortly

  US mobile carrier T-Mobile is expected to announce the first phone based on Google's Android mobile operating system on 23 September, with the so-called 'Dream' phone from HTC to go on sale sometime in October.

• Microsoft refutes hypervisor attack claim

  Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing.

• First iPhone antivirus app released

  Paris-based computer security firm Intego late last week said it had released the first antivirus software for Apple's iPhone handset.

• BlackBerry PDF flaw exposes corporate networks

  BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is warning businesses to disable the function which allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until it can issue an update, after a security flaw was found in the company's software.

• Flying doctors spend $2.7m on bush health records

  The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) has entered into a five-year AU$2.7m contract with IBA Health to create a standardised system for its electronic health records.

• Bill Cheswick: Silly passwords, soft perimeters and Vista

  Strong passwords do not necessarily provide better security so why do we persist creating ones that are hard to guess -- and hard to remember -- when a computer can crack them in seconds, asks Bill Cheswick, distributing computing and communications researcher for AT&T Labs.

• Windows users: Patch now or turn off Bluetooth

  Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack.

• Suncorp signs Symantec to protect 20,000 XP PCs

  Suncorp has signed a three-year security and archiving contract with Symantec to protect 20,000 "locked down" Windows XP desktops and servers.

• Google launches Postini-based security service

  Google announced on Thursday a re-branded Web Security service for Enterprise based on the Postini technology it acquired last year.

• Yahoo search flags dangerous Web sites

  Yahoo is using McAfee's SiteAdvisor to warn users of harmful Web sites appearing in its search results but a security researcher warns the technology has a repuation for giving false positives.

• BAE gets $8.5m to lockdown mobile military networks

  BAE Systems last week scored a US$8.5 million contract with DARPA to develop an "intrinsically secure" mobile network for military use in planes, ground vehicles, sensor systems mobile and stationary as well as handheld devices.

• Telstra hearing alarm bells over CDMA?

  After years of discussions and months of government wrangling, it's finally time for Telstra to close down CDMA for good. So how will the telco go about switching off an entire network?

• Future versions of OOXML safe: Microsoft

  Microsoft has assured coders that its Open Specification Promise a pledge it won't sue developers using OOXML will apply to future versions of the document format.

• IT security staff keep paedophile business afloat

  Police are holding the IT security linchpin responsible for propping up an online business that specialises in networking paedophiles and trading images of children being sexually abused.

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