Stories about: Software Works

To use an Internet-connected computer is to be insecure and place your privacy in danger. Spyware, viruses, Trojans and assorted malware are everywhere on the Net, trying to hop onto your PC and cause damage. Snoopers want to get at your personal information for nefarious purposes, such as identity theft.

Is the bell tolling for desktop antivirus technology?

With an existing mixture of mainframe and proprietary Unix systems, the Department of Defence has chosen the x86 and IA64 architectures over Sparc for its new $450,000 security management application.

Industrial control systems sit squarely at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds. They're vulnerable, they're unpatchable, and they're connected to the Internet.

You would probably imagine that a company that writes and sells software would make the protection of that software paramount. That's why it's hard to believe that my company has implemented no comprehensive efforts to prevent its bread-and-butter software falling into the wrong hands.

The University of Canberra is currently undergoing trials of voice authentication software on behalf of the federal government.