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    A rise in credit card transactions via the Internet, phone and mail-order is prompting card heavyweights to promote tougher security standards for transaction data, according to MasterCard.

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    Just a week out from Remembrance Day, the Australian War Memorial has announced that Alphawest will overhaul its content management systems and is on the prowl for storage platforms to preserve 100 terabytes of data.

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    The Anti-Phishing Working Group is arguing that emerging e-mail authentication standards could take the sting out of "phishing" attacks.

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    Identity fraud cost the Australian community AU$1.1 billion in 2001/02, according to a report released by a senior Minister, who also acknowledged the rapid subsequent growth of the problem.

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    A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.

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    In this special report, we review six archival options in the market.

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