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Bluetooth security vulnerabilities ignored

Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned of the dangers of flaws in Bluetooth protocols, claiming these vulnerabilities are unrecognised. Read more »

Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain. Read more »

Virus encyclopaedia infects visitors with malware

Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages. Read more »

Facebook admits it's the in thing for spammers

The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Read more »

eBay fraud of no concern to Eastern Europe

eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China. Read more »

Virtualisation a security threat?

Experts at security company McAfee have predicted that virtualisation will be a major area of concern for security threats next year. Read more »

JPEG-based virus attack gets closer

A virus writer has got close to exploiting a critical flaw in the way Microsoft Windows handles JPEGs. Read more »

Salesforce staff speared by phishers

Salesforce.com has revealed few details about a security breach caused by a phishing attack against an employee that surrended internal customer database details. Read more »

NASA hacker case adjourned over extradition fears

Gary McKinnon, the UK citizen accused of hacking into computer systems run by NASA and the US military, will not be extradited across the Atlantic to face trial unless the US can guarantee he won't be treated as a terrorist. Read more »

Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers

Virus writers have published what are thought to be the first examples of malicious code targeting an expected feature of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, around a week after the first beta of the next-generation operating system was released. Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Passwords: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Even with the best security technology in place, people are still putting enormous faith in the strength of their password, many without realising what having a "strong" password entails. Builder AU's Nick Gibson runs you through the basics. Read more »

Tutorial: JavaScript and regular expressions

If you've worked with regular expressions in Perl, you know that they can simplify search and replace tasks. Using them in JavaScript is just as easy. Read more »

Windows XP SP2 -- test your applications

Learn about the plethora of security enhancements included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as how these security features could impair the functionality of some applications. Read more »

Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0

We speak to David Heinemeier Hansson about the merits of open source, why Ruby on Rails should really be at 2.0 by now and how logic should keep out of the database. Read more »

Googling at the future

In this Q&A Google's CTO Craig Silverstein claims the future of search technology will see science fiction become science fact, but in the meantime, the best option is to fake it. Read more »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

Microsoft to open more source code

Microsoft's shared source chief Jason Matusow talks about whether the company plans to release more Office source code. The question is, does anybody want it? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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