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Safari 3.2 includes antiphishing tools

Without fanfare, Apple has apparently added antiphishing to its Safari 3.2 release. Read more »

Google plans 'Chrome' browser

Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project. Read more »

Microsoft releases IE8 beta 2

On Wednesday in the US, Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8. Read more »

OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, warns researcher

A fundamental issue affects the OpenID authentication system, due to its reliance on the Domain Name System, a Sun identity-technology specialist has warned. Read more »

DNS disaster: first attacks reported

The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported. Read more »

Gmail gets free Yahoo phishing protection

Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords. Read more »

Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »

Opera 9.5 gets euro-style and Haute secure

Opera 9.5, code-named Kestrel, the latest browser by Opera, on Thursday became available for download for Windows and Mac. Read more »

Australia's most gullible: Top victims of cybercrime?

Australians experience one of the highest levels of cybercrime in the world, according to a new survey — but are Aussies really such easy targets? Read more »

Microsoft: Defence in depth is not enough

Defence in depth is simply not enough to create a secure computing environment, according to Microsoft's vice president of its Trustworthy Computing group, Scott Charney. Read more »

Features (6)

What does Google Chrome offer developers?

This article discusses Chrome's tools for working with Web pages and weighs in on whether you should ditch IE or Firefox for Chrome. Read more »

Phishing and pharming 101: Protect your identity

Using a variety of nefarious methods, phishing and pharming are a consistent problem that threatens everyone with identity theft. If you recognise what these methods are and how malicious users employ them, you can keep yourself and your users from becoming a victim. Read more »

Expert: User passwords getting stronger

A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace.com members seems to indicate that internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert. Read more »

A look inside Google's open source kitchen

Google's Chris DiBona says the search giant has a lot of involvement in open source, but is also a firm believer in proprietary software. Read more »

What's new in Windows Vista?

Don't want to take Windows Vista for a test drive until you know what it has to offer? Join Windows expert Deb Shinder for a visual tour of Beta 2 as she points out some of the more dramatic changes and shares her impressions of the new OS. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

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The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »

One ID to rule them all

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- OpenID is an open-source mechanism enabling you to use a single online identity to log-in to different websites that support OpenID. Read more »

Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- As beta 5 is due to come out next week, I take a look at some of the new features and improvements in Firefox 3. Read more »

We don't need an eBay for security holes

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- It's been likened to an eBay for hackers -- new security site WabiSabiLabi is a market place for auctioning security vulnerabilities. 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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