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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. Read more »

Recruiters auto-forward trojan-infected resumes

Customers of an Australian recruitment firm have been targeted with resumes that are booby-trapped with a backdoor trojan. Read more »

Hacked? Don't blame China, blame Denmark

Forget pointing the finger at China when government systems and defence contractors are compromised — it's the dirty work of Danish hackers, says Finnish security researcher, Mikko Hyppönen. Read more »

US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes

The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace. Read more »

Has Windows Vista's UAC feature failed Microsoft?

Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected but its security features — such as User Account Control (UAC) — have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its predecessor, Windows XP. Read more »

Mobile phone virus tries leaping to PCs

A Trojan virus that attempts to spread from smart phones to users' PCs was discovered on Wednesday, marking one of the first cases of virus 'cross-sharing' between the two devices, according to security firm F-Secure. Read more »

Indian Police Academy serves up phishing site

The SVP Indian Police Academy was yesterday notified that it was hosting a phishing site posing as the Bank of America. Read more »

Cyberattacks outstripping defences

Cyberattacks today have become so complex that there may be no real way to completely protect against them, internet security researchers have warned. Read more »

Spammers use YouTube to spread Storm worm

In yet another twist to the Storm worm menace, spammers are using a fake YouTube site to trick users into downloading the malicious code. Read more »

Web 2.woe: Simple security flaws going unfixed

Web application vulnerabilities are simple to fix -- but they're here to stay and will likely get worse, say security analysts. Read more »

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10+ things you should know about rootkits

Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »

Windows rootkits 101

When administrators and security professionals hear the word rootkit, most think first of a UNIX-based system. Unfortunately, this only leads to a false sense of security for Windows-based systems. The fact is that Windows rootkits do exist, and you need to be able to detect them. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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