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Security firms slam Microsoft 'capitulation'

Major security companies have criticised Microsoft's OneCare security software and the software giant's decision to stop charging for the offering. Read more »

McAfee speeds up updates

What if your desktop security application could detect and remove a new threat that was only minutes old? That's the impetus behind McAfee's Artemis technology, announced yesterday. Read more »

Microsoft Patch Tuesday brings six critical updates

Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix for six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Read more »

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Antivirus is 'completely wasted money': Cisco CSO

Companies are wasting money on security processes — such as applying patches and using antivirus software — which just don't work, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart. Read more »

Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well. Read more »

Microsoft blamed for Google Docs flaw threat

Google has fixed a flaw in Google Docs that allowed an attacker to hijack sessions on any Google service — but security experts say that the real damage is being caused by Internet Explorer, not Google's technology. 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 »

Australians want what's bad for them: Biometrics

Australians would prefer to use voice biometrics rather than PIN and password verification to prove their identity — but security experts warn biometrics exposes consumers to even greater risk. Read more »

Microsoft issues five critical patches

Microsoft on Tuesday issued five "critical" security patches designed to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. Read more »

Barbed search terms threaten Web users

A million search queries have been "poisoned" at dozens of well-known Web sites over the past several weeks, according to security analyst Dancho Danchev. Read more »

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Be proactive in your fight against malware

Mike Mullins discusses the merits of proactive security and explains why it's better to know whether a Web site is potentially harmful before you browse. Read more »

Keeping PCs out of the junk pile

Smaller IT budgets have caused support pros to require computers to work longer than originally intended. Here are some tips to help you develop a strategy for keeping older PCs in tip-top shape. Read more »

Microsoft: .Net starting to take hold

The company announces new software tools it hopes developers will use to build Web services. "We bet the company on .Net, but we can't do it alone," an executive says. Read more »

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Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »

Free AntiVirus beats all comers in AntiVirus fight club

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- A rare AntiVirus accuracy competition was conducted at Linuxworld this week, and the results should come as a blow to the paid antivirus industry. 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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