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Cyberbludging, the term coined in 2000 by Charles Heunemann, chief executive of internet security company SurfControl, has gained entry as an Australian colloquialism in the Macquarie Dictionary.

Anti-virus vendor, Symantec has launched a new certification program on how to protect critical information assets for small business IT managers and resellers.


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Australian computer users receive three times more spam emails from the US than from any other source, according to statistics from security developer New Millennium Solutions (NMS).


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The vast majority of victims of internet phishing scams fall prey to very simple lures rather than complex hard to identify schemes, according to a new report.

Anti-virus vendor, Sophos, and Sun Microsystems have struck a development and reseller agreement, in which Sun will become an accredited Sophos reseller and will add Sophos products to its price list.


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US-based name matching software developer, Language Analysis Systems (LAS), has set up an Australian office in Canberra, to capture a share of the immigration security market.

Enterprise infrastructure provider, Aruba Networks, has appointed David Humphries as the country manager, responsible for the sales of Aruba for Australia and New Zealand. Humphries comes to Aruba with 20 years experience in the Australian Networking Industry. Most recently Humphries was at Avnet, where he was managing the networking arm of its distribution business. Before that, he held various sales roles at Memorex Telex, Xylan (acquired by Alcatel), Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco) and network management company, Concord Communications (recently acquired by CA).

Sydney Australia, 9 September 2005 – TippingPoint, a division of 3Com and the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced an agreement under which Firewall Systems will be the first major Australian distributor of TippingPoint products.

IT seems that no depth is too low for the unproductive parasites that continue to poison the internet channel. A recently spammed email claiming to provide news about Hurricane Katrina actually hides the JS_PHEL.K malware.

IT training group, Computer Power Corporate Training, has introduced a new training course for IT professionals that provides them with a recognised qualification in systems hacking.

Security vendor, GFI Asia Pacific, has released an access control plug-in for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server to allow real time monitoring of the sites users are browsing and the files they are downloading.