Facebook has suspended the "Top Friends" application after a Canadian computer technician discovered it allowed anyone to peep through normally inaccessible parts of Facebook accounts.
The Federal government has launched a new security alert service for small business and home users, aimed at helping Australians protect themselves from cyberattack.
Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business.
After a hiatus, the gang behind the Storm worm is attempting to exploit people's curiosity about a fictional love interest to tempt users into downloading the malware, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
All the news and highlights from Australia's largest IT security conference, taking place in the Gold Coast this week.
The world of speculative telecommunications investments has quieted down considerably since the beginning of the decade, when hype-fuelled carriers plunked down billions to reserve the right to carry mobile phone calls, video calls, and massive volumes of spam at high speed using then-fanciful 3G mobile technology.
Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Back in mid-February of this year, I almost attended a conference held in Sydney by technology vendor CA.
As we embark on a new year, the industry hype-machine is slowly warming up to sell us new technologies that will make our jobs easier in 2007. Rest assured though that some problems will remain, like spam.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products — but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.
JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.
Five years ago, the e-mail technology providers were telling us it would take time before the spam situation improved. Yet, today, there's more spam than ever. In his latest Technology Shakedown, ZDNet's David Berlind blames AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for the mess and demands they act now
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia, said that although legislation and general awareness have helped Australia avoid becoming a haven for spammers, we are under attack from overseas.
Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at Messagelabs, said the company's latest research indicates that Australian spam levels are well below the global average. The bad news is that social networking sites, such as MySpace, are helping phishers create more targeted attacks.
Hosted CMS and blog solutions litter the market, yet none offer Terapad's combination of simplicity and functionality.
Drag-and-drop message organisation and a built-in MP3 player are among the notable new features to this radical overhaul of Hotmail.
Fortinet has taken their proven UTM firmware and hardware experience and combined those with a 24-port network switch. While perhaps not suited to larger enterprises, the FortiGate-224B certainly represents an excellent proposition for SMB or branch office deployment and worthy of further research.
System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.
Norton Internet Security 2007 makes significant gains over last year, including cutting-edge rootkit and behavioral monitoring features found nowhere else, but the overall package could be serious overkill for the average desktop owner.
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