Google released a free tool Tuesday that should help Web developers find and fix cross-site vulnerabilities.
Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, however these new applications come in light of new security scares.
Sony has suspended its PlayStation 2.40 firmware upgrade following reports it has fouled up some users' systems — Sony has also removed hacked pages on its Playstation web site.
A Dutch researcher rode free on the London transit system, having hacked the public transit's card system; he used a clone of a paying passenger's transit cards. His point? The transit smartcards, which are used by millions worldwide, are vulnerable to attack.
Microsoft has issued new tools to assist Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET technologies against recent Web-based attacks.
An IBM X-Force security researcher has promised to exploit massive holes in Windows Vista's defences at the upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.
Yahoo is headed for a reorganisation that, combined with an exodus of top Yahoo executives, will in all likelihood put power in dramatically fewer hands.
Apple on Thursday released a new version of Safari for Windows that includes a security fix for a high-profile carpet-bombing desktop attack vulnerability.
The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, achieving a final tally of 8,290,545, and a six percent share of the total browser market
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
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?
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
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The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Rasmus Lerdorf, the father of PHP, says that the Web is inherently broken and needs an overhaul to the entire infrastructure: browsers, servers and scripting languages.
The i-mate Ultimate 9502 is the larger sibling of the i-mate 8502, and shares the honour of being Australia's first HSUPA phone. While we believe this phone is in the same league as a BlackBerry or the iPhone, be wary of Telstra's promised internet speeds.
Whether you plan to use Skype or not, the Skypephone is a full-featured budget priced phone and value for money if you don't break it first.
Microsoft released several patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday, including one designed to put the iPod and the new operating system back on speaking terms.
For home and student use, we think Norton 360 represents the best value for ease of use, tools offered, and overall system performance. We recommend it over McAfee Total Protection and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare.
At AU$3,750, this is a "premium" product, but what you get for your money is a flexible and road-worthy tablet -- but it does require extra peripherals to perform optimally.
Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.
McAfee, without realising it, has fixed a serious flaw in its popular product for managing security software, the security vendor said on Friday.
Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.
The best business notebooks combine portability, performance, battery life and integrated wireless networking. We show you how to make the right purchasing decision.
This imaging work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture could make life easier for photographers who need to sort through large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
When creating a secure, locked down IT system — for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions — would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs — but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
Would you be happier that Google collects data about your Internet history if you knew their log data was used to fight some seriously nasty worms?
According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?
A "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co.
Microsoft is going to let everyone -- even people with an illegal pirate copy of Windows XP -- download IE7 because the software giant really cares about the safety and security of all Internet users. (But don't mention Firefox ...)
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
Discerning thumbs for BlackBerry users are essential to keep away a new threat which can compromise the security of the popular smartphone. Well that's according to Research In Motion's (RIM) Ian Robertson, senior manager of security and research.
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
After skipping Patch Tuesday last month, administrators will have the joy of a double patch this month because Microsoft is rushing out a fix for its Windows cursor vulnerability.
Telstra mobile code reader
It may look like a 3-D image but it's in fact a barcode designed to direct your phone's web browser to a relev… Watch it now
In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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