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  • Full coverage: AusCERT 2006

    An annual survey coordinated by the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team has revealed that electronic attacks on businesses have decreased, but is it all good news?

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    An e-mail pretending to be a Windows XP security update harbours a malicious Trojan horse that could let hackers build an "army of zombie computers."

  • Sobig.f prevention and cure

    Yet another member of the Sobig virus family is loose. Sobig.f spreads via e-mail and shared network files and could slow e-mail servers with excessive traffic.

  • Microsoft kills Net address to foil worm

    The software giant eliminates the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating MSBlast worm was set to attack.

  • Experts: Microsoft's security push lacks oomph

    New security problems highlight Microsoft's ongoing battle to keep its software - and its ambitious .Net strategy - safe from malicious hackers. Critics say the company treats bugs as a PR problem.

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    Some users shut out of key security upgrades

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    We look at eight mail-server plugins designed to make sure your servers don't take a beating the next time one comes along.

  • Microsoft an antivirus vendor? I doubt it

    Despite its purchase of GeCad, a Romanian antivirus vendor, the software giant will continue to do what it does best--and the rest of the antivirus industry can breathe easy.

  • Windows Live OneCare

    Windows Live OneCare is the first of many managed online security services to debut this year. We recommend waiting, then comparing the offerings from Symantec, McAfee, and other established security vendors before deciding on a managed online security service.

  • Is Mac OS X weaker than Windows?

    Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.

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