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• Could Symantec have saved you from Slammer?

  The DeepSight monitoring service did give some warning of the Slammer virus, bus has Symantec over-stated how useful it would have been?

• Slamming the Slammer worm

  A rapidly spreading computer worm infests networks and bogs down Internet traffic across the globe. Are you affected? What do you do next? Find out in ZDNet Australia's special report.

• Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

  SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them.

• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Slammer worm responsible for Macquarie outage

  Macquarie has admitted that a variant of the Slammer worm was responsible for a serious disruption to the company's co-location customers last week.

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• Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

  SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them.

• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Securing Microsoft: From the Blaster worm to Blue Hat

  From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade. Step onboard as we chart the triumphs and tragedies as the Microsoft engineers battled the tides of internet hackers, transforming them from adversaries to unlikely allies.

• Spyware: CIOs on alert?

  Monitoring employee Internet use continues to be a focus for enterprises concerned about the security and legal ramifications. But how much focus are CIOs paying to spyware?

• Web on watch for common enemies

  Security experts are watching out for attacks that burrow through two new flaws, warning that the vulnerabilities are a bigger threat because of people's reliance on the targeted software.

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