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    A slew of security companies have banded together to tackle what they claim are falling standards in the testing of anti-malware applications.

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    Google is working on a security tool -- codenamed Lemon -- to detect vulnerabilities in its Web applications.

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    If the Internet is God, and the browser my shepherd, I am a lost lamb who has been waiting for the Prophet to answer my call: What are those icon-less buttons at the bottom of Internet Explorer 7?

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    Short of setting up duplicate systems, testing new software can be a hairy exercise. Here's another way: use virtual OSes like VMWare and Virtual PC as your testing platform.

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    Norwegian company Opera Software released the first beta of its 9.6 Opera Web browser last week. We took it for a spin to see how it handled.

  • Hacking techniques help security: HP

    HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October using controlled exploit code.

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