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  • Forensic plan key to hacker prosecution: Detective

    Having a forensic readiness plan is critical to a company's ability to prosecute a computer-based attacker, a detective of Victoria's computer crime squad has told the Hack 2003 conference in Melbourne.

  • Optus hacker penalised on appeal

    The man who received only a suspended sentence after hacking into the Optus network and accessing the account details of more than 400,000 users has been convicted on appeal in a move welcomed by the law enforcement community.

  • In depth: Is being hacked a publicity nightmare?

    A 17 year old Queensland youth was arrested last week on charges relating to a security breach at a "prominent" internet service provider (ISP). ZDNet Australia spoke to the director of the recently established Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), federal agent Alastair MacGibbon, about the arrest, and found out why letting the world know you've been hacked isn't the end of the world.

  • 'Alternative' security conference set to return

    The organisers of the Ruxcon security conference, which drew over 300 attendees from all over Australia to the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) campus in May, will run a second conference in 2004, an organiser has told ZDNet Australia.

  • Unpopular music site takes beating from hackers

    The Web site of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the most unpopular lobby groups on the Internet, was defaced last week for the fifth time in a year.

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Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Researchers infiltrate denial of service networks

    Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.

  • Microsoft learned from open source: Security boss

    The director of Microsoft's product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

  • UPDATE: New worm poised to unleash hell on MS

    A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts describe as the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started spreading, while new analysis has uncovered a time bomb in the worm's code poised to unleash a furious denial of service attack at Microsoft itself.

  • Keeping the door open...and shut

    A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like?

Reviews (1)

  • Mobile phone hacking set to spread: AU experts

    United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.

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