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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 »

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 »

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 »

Sony continues supplying rootkit-like software

Sony continues to distribute software containing a rootkit-like cloaking technology, which security firms say could be used by criminals to hide malware, from its Web site. Read more »

Bin Laden Trojan quickly constrained

A Trojan-carrying spam e-mail that purports to offer pictures of a captured Osama bin Laden tricks few Internet users. Read more »

Game Monsters attack Westpac customers

US-based gaming Web site, The Game Monsters, has been implicated in the latest of round of phishing scams targeting Westpac customers, according to security experts. Read more »

Confusing .au.com domain threatens Aussie users

A US-based anti-spyware company has registered the ".com.au.com" domain name, which experts fear could be used by cybercriminals to create more convincing phishing attacks. Read more »

Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite. Read more »

Australia's most gullible: Top victims of cybercrime?

Australians experience one of the highest levels of cybercrime in the world, according to a new survey — but are Aussies really such easy targets? Read more »

Hack turns iPhone into spy-phone

US security consultant, Rick Farrow, has used H D Moore's security testing tool, Metasploit, to crack the iPhone, which allows a hacker to do anything the iPhone user can, but remotely. 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 »

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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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

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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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