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Cover story - Internet security: just wishful thinking?
Information Age staff
Malware, adware, viruses and spam continue to assail users everywhere as the Internet continues to be a dangerous place - and it's getting worse.
While security vendors struggle even to stay in touch with an accelerating tide of threats, professional criminals are gainfully exploiting millions of computers, governments and businesses are recruiting specialised hackers to wrest away others' secrets and malware writers are winning their war.
The extent of Australian computer crime is hard to gauge as there's no requirement for it to be reported.
However, the fact that more than a billion dollars was spent on trying to find and seal holes in the security fences here and in NZ shows that the problem has got industry attention.
In this survey our writers here and overseas look at the panoply of dangers out there, what is being done to create a bulwark against them - and where the battles have simply been lost.
There's little to cheer looking down the security road for the next year; elsewhere in this issue, Neil McAllister looks at the top 25 technoflops of all time. Security came out at the top of his list.
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Stopping malware that mutates on demand
By: Roger A. Grimes
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Antivirus vendors are struggling to contain polymorphs that evade traditional scans
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Security information management
By: Curtis F Franklin Jr
19/02/2008 11:47:22
Shopping for a SIM solution to monitor network security and compliance? There are traps for the unwary in this rapidly evolving market segment
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Cyber-espionage moves into B2B
By: Matt Hines
19/02/2008 11:52:44
Business and governments are the new victims - and the perpetrators
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The Web's security seams set to burst
By: Beverley Head
19/02/2008 11:58:21
Social networkers' haste to post personal data has cybersharks circling
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Tech's all-time top 25 flops
By: Neil McAllister
19/02/2008 12:02:55
The mega-flops of history that do not bear repeating
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A new approach to ICT
By: Kim Carr
19/02/2008 12:39:35
"You want to know the difference information and communication technologies make? Try to live without them."
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Cover story - Internet security: just wishful thinking?
Information Age staff
Malware, adware, viruses and spam continue to assail users everywhere as the Internet continues to be a dangerous place - and it's getting worse.
While security vendors struggle even to stay in touch with an accelerating tide of threats, professional criminals are gainfully exploiting millions of computers, governments and businesses are recruiting specialised hackers to wrest away others' secrets and malware writers are winning their war.
The extent of Australian computer crime is hard to gauge as there's no requirement for it to be reported.
However, the fact that more than a billion dollars was spent on trying to find and seal holes in the security fences here and in NZ shows that the problem has got industry attention.
In this survey our writers here and overseas look at the panoply of dangers out there, what is being done to create a bulwark against them - and where the battles have simply been lost.
There's little to cheer looking down the security road for the next year; elsewhere in this issue, Neil McAllister looks at the top 25 technoflops of all time. Security came out at the top of his list.
The Web's security seams set to burst
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Stopping malware that mutates on demand
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Cyber-espionage moves into B2B
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