Stories about: Good Guys

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Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet 28 December, 2009 13:52

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it.
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Samsung debuts new mini notebook 14 September, 2009 14:11

Samsung Electronics Australia has partnered with Japanese industrial-designer, Naoto Fukasawa, launch a new mini notebook, the N310. The netbook’s minimalist style is very much in keeping with the sensibilities of the award winning international designer, with a framelss screen, pebble design keyboard and rubberised body in a light form factor of just 1.23kg.
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Dell announces Dick Smith as its third retail partner 01 May, 2009 18:00

PC giant Dell has inked its third retail partnership in Australia, forging an agreement with the Woolworths-owned Dick Smith stores.
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Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours 15 January, 2009 07:04

The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said Wednesday.
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Hacker leaves message for Microsoft in Trojan code 13 January, 2009 07:52

Here's a new way to get Microsoft to pay attention to you: Slip a brief message into the malicious Trojan horse program you just wrote.
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Dell becomes a Good Guy 08 December, 2008 12:43

Dell has announced a partnership with The Good Guys that will see its products sold through the retailer’s 87 stores across Australia in time for Christmas.
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DNS hole prompts synchronized patching effort by IT vendors 10 July, 2008 08:51

In a rare synchronized security move, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and other IT vendors Wednesday released software patches aimed at addressing a fundamental design flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol used to direct traffic on the Internet.
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Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57

Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools.
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Better than locks: A security approach to 'free' 02 June, 2008 08:07

In January, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay entitled "Better Than Free" that explained which concepts held value on the Internet. This generated a lot of interest, mostly around the question of how best to make money out of these concepts. As a career security guy, I found myself wondering how on earth my field will respond -- how does security need to adapt to support business models based on these values? When we're used to locking everything down, how do we respond when people start calling for openness?
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How Microsoft lost the office file format battle 30 May, 2008 11:41

Score one for the good guys: Last week, Microsoft announced that not only would Office 2007 Service Pack 2 support the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, but the productivity suite would not offer support for the ISO standard version of Microsoft's own OOXML (Office Open XML) format until its next major version, release date unknown.
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Identity overload: complacency breeding fraudster paradise 20 May, 2008 12:27

The next time you relinquish your personal identity to simply enter a venue or purchase something, spare a thought for how the information might be stored, transmitted and used in the future. Such an overload of identity information may lead to a dramatic escalation in fraud, claims one legal eye.