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Google considers request to boost privacy

More than three dozen security and privacy advocates and researchers are asking Google to offer better data protection for users of Gmail and other Google apps and Google said on Tuesday that it is considering doing that, if it doesn't slow down the apps too much. Read more »

PHP, Python, Samba get security tick of approval

Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects. Read more »

Flaws found in open source codes

A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors. Read more »

Google in Australia-wide hunt for top techie talent

Google Australia will this week run recruitment drives in Australian capital cities as the local arm of the software giant searches the nation for new engineering talent. Read more »

Botnets threaten the Internet as we know it

Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week. Read more »

US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb. Read more »

PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects. Read more »

US Senate moves to legalise 'illegal NSA spying'

Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency. Read more »

US Homeland Security e-mail gaffe exposes secrets

A technical contractor may have started a chain of events that led to security professionals divulging classified information Read more »

Microsoft's OOXML 'choice' argument squashed

Microsoft claims that Australia will benefit from "greater choice" if local standards bodies vote this week to accept the Office Open XML format as an ISO standard. Read more »

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Bug hunters, software firms in uneasy alliance

Although many software makers promote responsible disclosure, it isn't universally backed by the security community. Critics say it could make security companies lazy in patching. Full disclosure of flaws is better is preferred. Read more »

Safe browser an oxymoron?

In November 2003, the CERT Coordination Center first advised Web users to consider using a Web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Read more »

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Homeland Security secretary pushes cybersecurity 'Manhattan Project'

At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start. Read more »

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