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2011 ends Firefox's Mac OS X 10.4 support

Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. Read more »

Ninemsn injected with malicious code: Websense

Security technology company Websense this week claimed that one of Australia's most highly trafficked websites, ninemsn, had been compromised by an outside party and injected with "malicious code", although the problem area has now been removed from the site. Read more »

Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole

Microsoft said on Wednesday it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used by an attacker to remotely crash the computer. Read more »

Atheist sites suffer wrath of DDoS

The websites of the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline yesterday due to a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Read more »

Researchers' protocol denies DoS attacks

Researchers have devised a way to filter out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, to improve security on government, commercial and educational systems. Read more »

Facebook at TechCrunch50: Engineers are our lifeblood

Facebook took the stage on Tuesday afternoon at the TechCrunch50 conference for a "Developer Garage" event, to highlight just how important its team of engineers is to the company -- and to unveil a new feature to let users play around with what they're up to. Read more »

Defence hauled in over PM website attack

Security experts from Defence have been called in to assist agencies that were targeted by last night's attack on the Prime Minister's and other agency websites. More attacks are expected, according to sources. Read more »

'Anonymous' knocks PM, ACMA offline

The loose alliance of internet pests known as 'Anonymous' temporarily knocked websites belonging to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Australian Communications and Media Authority offline last night. Read more »

Windows 7, Vista zero-day flaw reported

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is investigating reports of a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Vista. Read more »

Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack

Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and more outright downtime. The microblogging site is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service (DoS) attack but has not said anything further. Read more »

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Using Corkscrew to tunnel SSH over HTTP

This article shows you how to use the cross-platform program Corkscrew for HTTP-tunnelling. Read more »

Paranoid cookie management

How much paranoia you employ in web cookie management determines how much work you must put in, and which strategies you'll use. Read more »

Five strategies for 2009 IT gold

This article offers strategies that will help your IT projects be successful this year. The five points cover relationships between IT and its environment, as well as address culture and process. Read more »

How to transform your organisation through IT

CIO's who change organisations often boast the same accomplishments: closer integration with the customer, becoming one with the business, becoming more agile and responsive, etc. We take a look at the how, and the why. Read more »

Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack

You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP address or service that's available to the Internet. If you can't prevent such an attack, what can you do to protect your organisation? Read more »

Take this four-phase approach to a network risk assessment

Assessing your network for potential risks is part of the responsibility of providing network services. Mike Mullins discusses the four phases of an effective network risk assessment and offers best practices for conducting each phase. Read more »

Why you should perform regular security audits

Most companies believe that their computer systems are secure. But one of the only ways to determine whether this is actually true is by performing an audit. Read more »

Meet Microsoft's alpha tester

Ron Markezich is Microsoft's CIO, and he has some thoughts to share on making sure that 'Microsoft's products are the best products in the world', why offshoring won't grow, and why everything is .NET. Read more »

The three-fold challenge of producing secure programs

See why security guru John McCormick views producing secure programs as a three-fold problem. Read more »

Glitch in C++ libraries allows a DoS attack against ISAPI

The Microsoft Foundation Classes static library contains flaws that make ISAPI extensions vulnerable to DoS attacks. Find out why this illustrates a major challenge for developers who need to produce secure applications. Read more »

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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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