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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 »

Microsoft refutes hypervisor attack claim

Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. Read more »

Recruiters auto-forward trojan-infected resumes

Customers of an Australian recruitment firm have been targeted with resumes that are booby-trapped with a backdoor trojan. Read more »

Rootkit threatens Cisco routers

Cisco and the security community are debating the reality of rootkits attacking the Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) after a researcher presented a proof of concept attack, which threatens Cisco routers and voice over IP phones. Read more »

Sony softens stance on DRM

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music label, has become the last of the top four majors to scuttle digital rights management (DRM) software on music downloads. Read more »

Hack turns iPhone into spy-phone

US security consultant, Rick Farrow, has used H D Moore's security testing tool, Metasploit, to crack the iPhone, which allows a hacker to do anything the iPhone user can, but remotely. Read more »

Virtual rootkits cannot avoid detection: researchers

Rootkits that use virtualisation techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities in the US. Read more »

Microsoft 'stealth' Windows update damages trust

Microsoft has been criticised for automatically uploading and installing files to user PCs even if they had specifically been set to not auto-install patches. Read more »

Sony continues supplying rootkit-like software

Sony continues to distribute software containing a rootkit-like cloaking technology, which security firms say could be used by criminals to hide malware, from its Web site. Read more »

Sony blasted for helping hide malware on users' PCs

Security specialists are warning that Sony's MicroVault USB, which is a biometric USB storage device, cloaks driver software in a Windows directory that could be used by malware to avoid detection from security applications. Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

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

10+ things you should know about rootkits

Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »

Be aware of the threat of hidden keystroke-logging devices

Learn about the different versions of keystroke loggers, and get tips for protecting your organisation and your users from this threat. Read more »

Windows rootkits 101

When administrators and security professionals hear the word rootkit, most think first of a UNIX-based system. Unfortunately, this only leads to a false sense of security for Windows-based systems. The fact is that Windows rootkits do exist, and you need to be able to detect them. Read more »

The secrets of open source security

The Linux vs. Windows security debate is a contest of examples, which stand in place of the concepts that comprise a larger, more fundamental question of what the security benefits and detriments are for the open source and closed source development models. Read more »

The open-source techie who means business

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »

UNIX tools track down hackers

Catching malicious hackers isn't impossible. With the right tools, you can gather important information to help stop hack attacks. How can you use common UNIX tools to hunt down network attackers? Read more »

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All this matter and make up and déjá vu

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- There are some weeks when you could be mistaken for thinking that the record had skipped and the players involved were simply going through the motions -- this week was one of them. Read more »

Get Ready for This

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- It seems software developers are quite a musical bunch. Microsoft have a band called "band on the runtime" which play cover songs like "VB.NET" to the tune of the Villiage People's YMCA, and Richard Stallman sings his woeful Free Software song. Read more »

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