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  • 2004: the year of phishing

    Yet again denial-of-service attacks, spam, viruses - driven in part by an apparent war between virus writers - and cybercrime have hit the headlines over the course of the past 12 months.

  • VPN flaw puts internal networks at risk

    A suspected vulnerability in Microsoft's point-to-point tunneling protocol, if confirmed, could leave corporate intranets open to attack, say security experts.

  • Linux firms look to plug Samba hole

    The open-source community is pushing customers to patch their systems to close a hole in a software component that allows Windows programs to store and retrieve files on Linux and Unix servers.

  • iPhone debuts in UK, Germany

    The Apple iPhone makes its European debut at the end of this week, launching in the United Kingdom and Germany on Friday, marking the first countries outside the US to officially get the phone.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Accused Sasser author goes on trial

    A German teenager accused of creating an Internet worm that affected millions of computers, including Australian rail services, goes on trial today charged with sabotage.

  • Pros point to flaws in Windows security update

    Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP.

  • MySQL open to attack

    Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MySQL database system, a light database package commonly used in Linux environments.

  • Flaws drill holes in open-source databases

    Flaws in two popular source code database applications could allow attackers to access and corrupt open-source software projects, a security researcher said Wednesday in the US.

  • Oracle hits hard at Justice Dept's case

    Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its US$7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial here on Monday in the US.

  • Crackers question moon landings

    A Web site belonging to NASA - the US space authority - was attacked by computer crackers on Wednesday, who replaced the home page with the enigmatic question "Did man really walk on the moon?"

  • Google's chastity belt too tight

    Despite claims of "advanced proprietary technology," the search giant's opt-in porn filter proves no better than the primitive tools of the last decade, blocking many harmless sites.

  • Another MS Web site hacked

    Just days after a number of international Microsoft Web sites were cracked and defaced by a group of Brazilian hackers, the same group has reportedly hit the software giant's US Web site.

  • Unix pioneer an open-source killjoy?

    Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.

  • Nazi memorabilia ruling no threat to free speech

    Free-expression advocates cried foul when a French judge ruled it illegal for Yahoo to sell Nazi memorabilia over the Web in France.

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