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• Customs: Vista PCs are safe from encryption attack

  Despite US researchers showing that hard disk encryption can be easily compromised, Australian Customs say its Vista laptops are safe because data is not stored on them -- but analysts have warned users will find a way around this policy when they need to.

• First strike: Chinese hackers hit US sites

  Chinese crackers have apparently got an early start on what the US government and security companies are predicting will be a wave of attacks against Amercian Web sites this week.

• Is China ground zero for hackers?

  First there was the Code Red worm, then the aptly-named 'Offensive' Trojan horse was traced to the same China province. Coincidence? Robert Vamosi says maybe, but hacks have become an effective weapon for hostile groups.

• Oracle exec hits out at 'patch' mentality

  Oracle's security chief says the software industry is so riddled with buggy product makers that "you wouldn't get on a plane built by software developers."

• The hacktivism myth

  Hacktivism is a bastardisation of the words hack and activism. In truth, it's neither. Rather, it has become a cheapjack pseudo-politically hip moniker for the activities of apolitical teenage miscreants devoid of talent, creativity and passion.

• Here we go again

  COMMENTARY: Here's how my day went: E-mail was the first to go in the morning. Then the phone--a voice-over-Internet protocol system that uses Windows Server software--went down. Just to complete the hat trick, Microsoft Word's cut and paste feature conked out without any explanation.

• Wi-Fi system 'safe', says Boeing

  An aircraft cabin is a 'challenging environment' for a wireless LAN, but Boeing is confident that they can make it secure.

• Schindler heads toward life post-Mitnick

  LOS ANGELES -- Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schindler's drab 11th-floor office at the federal courthouse belies his status as the man who put the most notorious hackers of the '90s behind bars

• Can Microsoft help you trust your computer?

  Ever since Bill Gates ordered his minions to make security Job No. 1, they've been touting the phrase "Trustworthy Computing." But what, exactly, does Redmond mean by that? It's not necessarily what you think.

• Microsoft's security chief gets serious

  Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.

• Worry-free wireless

  Everybody's going wireless"even those intruders who are after your precious data. Here's how to stop them.

• Net vigilance

  The days when you might have left your virtual front door unlocked are long gone. More and more organisations are experiencing unauthorised use of computer systems. And, if experts are right, it's only going to get worse! Read ZDNet's comprehensive guide on Net security, and start protecting yourself.

• The Year 2000 in review

  The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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