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• Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

  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.

• Conroy's filtering can't fix Web 2.0 demons

  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.

• NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

  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.

• Employee fraud to be foiled by new SAP software

  ERP giant SAP is working with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) on software to hunt down fraudulent employee behaviour.

• Firefox to get phishing shield

  An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.

• BlackBerry case: No shutoff for now

  More than 3 million US BlackBerry users won't lose their service -- at least for now.

• Australia snubs 'premium spam' plan

  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.

• DFAT demands tough security

  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).

• Firefox fans put new spin on browser protection

  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.

• FBI plans spammer smackdown

  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.

• 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.

• How to bypass Australia's Spam Act

  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.

• Dealing with spam

  There are solutions that will work with smaller working environments, but what about the big end of town?

• New IE may burst pop-up bubble

  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.

• Hotmail tries to fry more spam

  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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