Cyber Storm II, the international simulation of a coordinated attack on global cyber infrastructure, starts this week.
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.
NATO's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack.
eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China.
Experts at security company McAfee have predicted that virtualisation will be a major area of concern for security threats next year.
Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen, especially if they're chatting to a malicious Russian bot.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".
With Bluetooth now a common feature on nearly all new mobile devices, there needs to be greater awareness from users about security problems and vulnerabilities associated with the function, according to industry figures.
Security around DNS servers is still a serious issue for network administrators, even though new servers such as BIND 9 are more secure, according to a new survey released this week.
A technical contractor may have started a chain of events that led to security professionals divulging classified information
The federal government will spend AU$13.6 million over the next four years trying to protect consumers and businesses from "sophisticated and targeted attacks".
Oracle has shrugged off criticisms of its recent security record, saying that one of the company's biggest concerns is that its customers are so used to being secure that they are not used to applying patches.
A hole in Oracle Applications 11i lets attackers commandeer the database by injecting SQL code into Web-based forms.
A handful of recent online attacks on free and open-source software servers has open-source developers looking over their shoulders.
Security concerns are slowing things down at Microsoft, but the company is still chugging along with its more ambitious projects including Windows Longhorn, a company executive said on Tuesday.
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