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  • WA Attorney-General's dept gets new printers

    Western Australia's Department of the Attorney-General has bought almost three quarters of a million dollars worth of Lexmark's newest printers.

  • Microsoft and Novell's bridge to Linux

    The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.

  • Linux guru warns on security of open-source

    Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the UK open-source community, has warned about complacency over the security of open-source projects.

  • Melbourne gets linux.conf.au guernsey

    Melbourne will host the linux.conf.au conference in 2008, the event's organisers announced today.

  • Montecito servers expected in September

    Intel has begun selling its dual-core "Montecito" version of Itanium.

  • Trend Micro: Open source is more secure

    Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is claiming that open-source software is inherently more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows.

  • Interpol: Give us the tools to fight cybercrime

    Interpol has called on politicians to help law enforcement officers bring cybercriminals to justice by making it easier for evidence to be transferred between countries.

  • Spamhaus rejects e-mail charge plan

    A leading antispam agency has struck back at moves to charge companies a fixed fee to ensure e-mails are delivered, saying it will erode freedoms.

  • Trusted Computing comes under attack

    The "Trusted Computing" technologies promoted by major IT companies such as Microsoft and IBM could have negative consequences for customers and rival software makers, according to security experts.

  • Experts question Windows win in flaw tally

    Critics have taken aim at a study published by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows last year.

  • Yahoo hosting 'thousands' of phishing sites

    Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.

  • The ups and downs of life with Linus

    Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox has given an insight into the experience of working with Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux who maintains its development kernel.

  • New site to group Aussie open source bloggers

    Linux Australia announced today that it will roll out a new Web site, Planet Linux Australia, devoted to aggregating the blogs of prominent Australian Linux and open source developers.

  • Email meltdown claims slammed

    Security vendors have accused anti-spam experts at Spamhaus of hyping a trick that allows spammers to take advantage of Internet service provider mail servers.

  • Linux guru joins software patent celebrations

    Alan Cox, one of the leading lights of the UK Linux scene, was among those celebrating on Thursday after the European Parliament demanded a total rethink of the software patent directive.

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