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New tool creates fake YouTube pages for spreading malware

Cybercriminals are getting more and more business-like. The latest examples involve a tool that automates the creation of fake YouTube Web sites that can be used to deliver malware and password cracking services for sale. Read more »

Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »

Pillow talking bots latest Russian malware threat

Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen, especially if they're chatting to a malicious Russian bot. Read more »

OpenOffice worm hits Mac, Linux and Windows

Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, according to Symantec. Read more »

OpenOffice macro worm exposes bad bunny

update: Sophos has warned users of the multi-platform OpenOffice productivity tool not to open any files named "badbunny.odg" -- which releases a worm exposing users to an image of a man in a bunny suit and a scantily clad woman performing a sexual act in woodland. Read more »

Bots for Sony CD software spotted online

A first wave of malicious software written to piggyback on Sony BMG Music Entertainment CD copy protection tools has been spotted online, computer security companies said Thursday in the United States. Read more »

Solaris engineers offer personalised source-code tours

Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet. Read more »

Apple opens up open-source effort

Apple Computer has expanded its open-source operations, cheering volunteer Web browser coders who had raised complaints against the computer maker. Read more »

Trojan horse takes down smart phones

A Trojan horse has been created that causes smart phones to crash, security software maker F-Secure has warned. Read more »

Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs

Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet Project report. Read more »

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Taking on Twitter with open source software

One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

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

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

Try IRC with Irssi to communicate via chat

Many IRC networks, particularly the Freenode network, cater to a lot of open source and Linux-based groups. There are many IRC clients available, but one of the most extensible and powerful is the command-line based Irssi. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

Configure GNU Screen to handle multiple terminals

GNU Screen is a fantastic terminal "window manager" in that it lets you handle multiple terminals from within one -- not only that, but what you run under Screen can be shared with other users or used remotely if you start a Screen session and then ssh into your box and resume the session. Read more »

Linux hassle-free and enterprise-ready

Linux has come a long way with regard to ease of installation and use. In an interview, Robin Miller, author of Point & Click Linux, and chapter author Joe Barr, discuss Linux in the enterprise. Read more »

A little Wine with your Linux?

Why this program's ability to run Windows apps on Linux may not necessarily satisfy. Read more »

Knowledge is power against hacker schemes

Most IT managers neglect to tell users how to avoid falling prey to the dangerous hacker technique of social engineering. Here's what you need to know. Read more »

Security and open source software: An analysis.

This article from Australian technology commentator Con Zymaris examines the security threat of open source software. Read more »

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Make money from free code

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The Open Source Developers conference began Wednesday morning at Monash University in Melbourne. 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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