A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.
Web 2.0 services pose the biggest risk to Australian kids -- and current filtering technologies aren't up to the job of protecting them, according to a report released yesterday.
Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud.
ERP giant SAP is working with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) on software to hunt down fraudulent employee behaviour.
An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.
More than 3 million US BlackBerry users won't lose their service -- at least for now.
Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
The federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has set tough requirements for vendors wanting to provide security for a new standard operating environment (SOE).
As security bugs swarm around the Firefox browser, volunteer marketers want to shore up the open-source project's security message with a safe sex theme.
It's been nearly six months since President Bush signed the first federal spam law with criminal sanctions--and not one bulk e-mailer has been criminally charged under it so far.
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.
The new Spam Act may be designed to stop spammers but it is also likely to catch legitimate businesses selling their products and services online.
There are solutions that will work with smaller working environments, but what about the big end of town?
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service.
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