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    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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    At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krsti, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.

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    Australia's best-known security conference will open for business on Monday and organisers say this year's event should be the biggest ever.

  • Users feeling component shortages pain

    The rush by PC makers to adopt build-to-order models has a dark side: the uneven supply of chips and components -- and corporate IT departments are feeling the pinch with delays in shipments of a variety of products.

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    Do aliens and God affect your security budget?

    Cyber-criminals, God, the universe, mafia, aliens, Nazis and IBM -- these are just some of the subjects touched upon in a video interview I conducted with Richard Thieme at the AusCERT security conference in Queensland last month.

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