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  • AusCERT sees decline in electronic attacks

    Over the past year there were significantly fewer electronic attacks than over the previous 12 months, according to the latest version of an annual survey coordinated by the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT).

  • Spim, splog on the rise

    Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

  • Anti-spam advocate succumbs to spammer

    A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack.

  • Hybrid security threats: Is your business prepared?

    Businesses are aware of at least some of the viruses and vulnerabilities which threaten the enterprise's IT security. But what happens when the threat is of a hybrid variety?

  • Confounding cyber-criminals

    Threats to society from cybercrime are bigger than ever. So what are we doing about it?

  • Virtualisation security threatened: XenSource

    XenSource and VMware, two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments.

  • Windows, IIS at risk from 'token kidnapping'

    Hosting providers and IT professionals have been warned of a threat posed to Microsoft IIS Web servers through exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems.

  • Web-borne security attacks explode

    Internet-borne security threats have taken over the mantle as a greater risk to companies' security than e-mail attacks, according to security vendor Sophos.

  • Instant Messaging attacks increase 723 percent in Q1

    Gartner predicts that all enterprises will be using Instant Messenger (IM) by 2010, which should send alarm bells ringing as IM attacks have increased by more than 700 percent in the past year.

  • The boss's iPhone: Your worst security nightmare

    As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.

  • Wi-Fi and VoIP must be locked down, business warned

    National Computing Centre research warns that neglecting the security of new technologies puts businesses at risk of cyberattacks.

  • Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs

    Malicious remote control software continues to be one of the biggest threats to Windows PCs, according to a new Microsoft security report.

  • IM threats rise sharply, report confirms

    New research finds that IM-borne security threats have increased dramatically in volume since the start of 2005.

  • Cisco squashes 'critical' Net attack bug

    Cisco Systems has patched a flaw in the software used to run its routers and switches, a new twist in the company's dispute with a security researcher that has roiled the security community.

  • E-mail virus volumes down but danger increases

    An anti-virus company reckons the number of viruses being sent by e-mail is continuing to fall -- but according to security experts, better targeting of attacks means the overall threat of infection has increased.

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