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Space virus infects orbiting laptops

At least two laptops on-board the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth have been infected with a virus. Read more »

Researcher: Kids, not Kremlin, attacking .ge

Initial information suggests that internet attacks on Georgian websites over the last two weeks are the work of kids, according to one researcher, while another says the intensity of these attacks is short-lived when compared with attacks in Estonia last year. Read more »

Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack

The Georgian embassy in the UK has accused forces within Russia of launching a co-ordinated cyberattack against Georgian websites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Read more »

IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs

IBM has launched its latest attack on Microsoft in the enterprise, forming an alliance with three top Linux distributors to promote Microsoft-free PCs around the world. Read more »

Georgian president suffers cyberattack

The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. Read more »

Lithuanian websites hacked by Russians?

Last weekend, several hundred Lithuanian websites were defaced with pro-Soviet and anti-Lithuanian slogans, according to The New York Times. Read more »

Google co-founder books trip to outer space

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down a US$5 million deposit to book a flight into space with the space tourism company Space Adventures. Read more »

What really happened in Estonia's cyberwar?

One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honouring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar. Read more »

Microsoft moves on after Yahoo break-up

In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone. Read more »

One Web page infected every five seconds

Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one Web page being infected every five seconds, according to a new report from security vendor Sophos. Read more »

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Meta-Programming with Ruby

See how to define and invoke Ruby methods, and how to use Ruby meta-programming to create new classes on the fly, so that you have most of the tools you need for domain-specific language generation. Read more »

Interview: Microsoft's security guru, Steve Riley

Before the start of Tech.Ed 06 Builder AU caught up with Steve Riley who works at Microsoft as a Senior Security Strategist to talk about Vista's new networking stack, security vs usability, and the uptake of IPv6. Read more »

Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations

RenderX's rendering engine, XEP, provides the "missing link" between XML technology and traditional publishing formats and platforms. Read more »

Who says standards are sacred?

The latest Java dispute opens the window on a little-discussed truth: Standardisation usually favors bigger companies. And many companies are much better off without them. Read more »

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Russian criminals prefer Australian banks

Russian cyber-crooks prefer targeting Australian banks because we have fewer brands relative to the population, which means social engineering attacks require less customisation, according to Kimberly Zenz, a specialist in criminal activity originating in the former Soviet Union. Read more »

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Trial of ReiserFS programmer takes bizarre turn

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The ongoing murder trial of Hans Reiser, the 44-year-old Oakland, California, computer programmer accused of killing his wife, took a rather interesting turn Tuesday with rambling testimony from Reiser's father, who said he had warned his son about "techno-geeks" who are into sadomasochism. Read more »

Hans Reiser trial gets under way

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The murder trial of Hans Reiser, the 43-year-old Oakland, Calif.-computer programmer accused of killing his wife, is scheduled to begin Tuesday in what the San Francisco Chronicle predicts will be one of the most sensational local trials in recent memory. Read more »

5 reasons restricting hacking is not like gun control

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- Let's get it out of the way: Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. People with hacking tools can steal your personal data, shut down your system and deface your web site -- but is that any reason to ban them? Read more »

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    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

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