Securify This!

Within hours of arriving at the AusCERT conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, my PowerBook decided it would rather commit suicide than listen to Microsoft's top security executives answer questions about Vista.I had lost my mobile phone on Saturday night in a less-than-upmarket Oxford Street bar and my voice recorder had started playing up, so I decided to use a software-based voice recorder on my -- until now -- ultimately reliable Powerbook to tape the Microsoft Q&A session.

May 25, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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Last week, two security companies spoke to me about their new products and I suddenly realised that we are close to losing the war against spyware.There are various forms of spyware with some being more aggressive than others but they all share the same desire -- to steal personal information from their victim's computers.

May 15, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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Microsoft's new operating system is great ... as a public relations platform for the software giant.

April 27, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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Windows Vista will have a snazzy new firewall, but by default it will only block incoming traffic, unless...

April 18, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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So Apple has launched Boot Camp, which is a piece of software that allows its customers to choose between Windows XP and OS X when booting up. But if you have OS X, why would you downgrade?

April 5, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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Special Minister of State Gary Nairn this week released a paper entitled 'Responsive Government - A New Service Agenda', which details how e-government services will be "improved" over the next four years.If and when these services are delivered I hope that during a security emergency they will offer better advice than the Australian Tax Office did this week.

March 30, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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CIO 'owns' the unhacked Mac Mini

March 8, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?Over the past 18 months I have come across three very prominent cases where security researchers have been ignored, gagged and even called terrorists, by vendors.

March 1, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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OS X security scares, a Linux worm and Microsoft bragging about security: so why is the world a safer place? 41% The Securified Risk Meter is confused.

February 22, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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Kicking off the RSA security conference in San Jose last week, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates told the masses of security folk that the next version of Windows will mark the beginning of the end for passwords.Apparently, a tool called InfoCards will provide us with the foundation we require to slowly phase out the password.

February 19, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

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