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Article | 17/08/2007 Google Maps unveils new features
Google announced this week new features developed by its Australian R&D team which will soon make Google Maps more accessible to users.
Article | 17/08/2007 Warning: 'Clpwn' cavorting on unguarded sites
A self-proclaimed hacker crew calling itself "clpwn" -- as in "clown" -- that's been bragging about how it's defaced sites such as CNN and Playboy Cas...
Article | 17/08/2007 Spouse cyberspying dangerous, possibly illegal
Increasing use of stealthy surveillance software for computers and phones is raising legal concerns and alarm among those who help victims of domestic...
Article | 17/08/2007 Microsoft patches Patchguard, miss Purple Pill
Microsoft has updated its 64-bit kernel protection for Windows Vista, which most of us know as PatchGuard, but which Microsoft calls Kernel Patch Prot...
Article | 17/08/2007 Skype outage disables millions of users
Skype is experiencing software problems that have disconnected service for millions of users.
Article | 16/08/2007 Microsoft reacts to kernel hacks, defends Vista
Microsoft quietly beefed up a key defensive feature of 64-bit Windows Vista Tuesday to better protect the operating system against hacks that have pla...
Article | 16/08/2007 Greetings! Someone has sent you an e-card virus
Think you got a cheery greeting card from a friend via e-mail?
Article | 15/08/2007 Record-breaking 'Storm' linked to spam surge
Storm, the Trojan that Hoovers PCs into hacker-controlled botnets, roared back into life last month in several waves, security researchers said Monday...
Article | 15/08/2007 Microsoft fixes 14 flaws in biggest patch day since Feb.
In the biggest one-day security update since February, Microsoft Tuesday issued nine bulletins that patched 14 vulnerabilities in Office, Internet Exp...
Article | 15/08/2007 Study: Facebook users are easy targets for identity theft
Users of the Facebook social-networking site are too gullible in giving up personal information, which could make them the targets of identity theft, ...
Article | 14/08/2007 Australia's data privacy landscape called into question
When it comes to privacy, bank customers in Australia are left to choose between garbage, trash or junk.
Article | 14/08/2007 'Hackers' deface UN site
"Hackers" defaced the United Nations Web site early Sunday with messages accusing the U.S. and Israel of killing children. As of late afternoon, some ...
Article | 14/08/2007 Facebook source code leaked to Internet
The source code that powers the user interface for popular social networking site Facebook was inadvertently exposed over the weekend due to a misconf...
Article | 13/08/2007 Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
Google and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia, they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.
Article | 13/08/2007 Bloggers launch Sk*rt, a 'Digg for women'
Three bloggers have launched a news-ranking site aimed at melding the concept of Digg.com with topics such as parenting, fashion and food targeted mor...
Article | 9/08/2007 Open source friendly IIS 7.0 sets sights on Apache
Web server survey site Netcraft's recent report may have indicated Microsoft's IIS is gaining ground over the venerable open source Apache HTTP server...
Article | 9/08/2007 Microsoft gears up for nine patches next week
Microsoft Thursday said it will release nine security updates next Tuesday, half again as many as last month, targeting flaws in Windows, Office, Inte...
Article | 9/08/2007 People-focused search engine launched
<a href="http://www.spock.com/">Spock.com</a>, a new search engine focused on finding people by crawling social networking sites such as MySpace.com a...
Article | 10/08/2007 Wanted: Facebook app developers
With an excess of 34 million regular users and about 15 billion page views per month, the world's hottest social networking site could be a marketer's...
Article | 10/08/2007 Restraint urged to allow Internet capacity to grow
Growth in Internet traffic, especially from burgeoning video Web sites and peer-to-peer usage, will put more pressure on network managers to handle th...

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