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  • Gartner: 'Wake up IT, you work in business'

    To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.

  • Customs CIO: Vista gives our staff PCs that work

    Australian Customs' chief information officer, Murray Harrison, says the department has almost completed rolling out Vista to its 6,000 PCs, and has improved security for its laptop fleet using Microsoft's encryption tool, Bitlocker.

  • Gartner's top 10 technologies in 2004

    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

  • Ballmer fails to sway the sceptics

    At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to disabuse the thousands of IT executives attending the conference of two notions: Windows software is hopelessly insecure and Linux offers a better TCO (total cost of ownership) than Windows.

  • The boss's iPhone: Your worst security nightmare

    As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.

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  • Gartner's top 10 technologies in 2004

    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

  • Ballmer on Linux: "The evidence is clear"

    Microsoft's CEO points to his company's security advantages and dominance over open-source options.

  • Virtual machine security flaws?

    A student researcher has come up with an attack that uses light to thwart the security of Java and .Net virtual machines.

  • Ex-cybersecurity czar issues gloomy report card

    This year alone, cyberattacks have shut down an ATM network, slowed the railroads, cancelled airline flights, and forced a nuclear power plant offline. If current trends continue, the cybersecurity situation will worsen exponentially.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

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