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Microsoft Tuesday explained why it had been unable to patch a seven-year-old bug until recently, saying that it was only in the last year that it figured out how to fix the flaw without breaking most network-based applications.

IT&T employers say they are not being affected by the current economic climate, but expectations have dipped and the focus has shifted to the passive job market.

Some security patches take time.

Microsoft's latest security report shows that the number of new vulnerabilities found in its software was lower in first half of the year than the last half of 2007, with the Windows Vista OS proving more resistant to exploits than XP.

Although computers running Windows Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with attack code than machines running Windows XP, the newer operating system continues to be threatened by Microsoft's own ActiveX browser plug-in technology, according to a report issued Monday by the company.

The Australian Computer Society issued a statement today in support of Sir Peter Gershon’s Report that candidly reviewed Australian government’s use and management of ICT, but warned that knee-jerk slashing of budgets or personnel could see the industry take a backward step.

The Gershon review has slammed the Australian Government’s use and management of ICT as weak while recommending budget cuts of up to 15 per cent.

New York's recent Last HOPE hackers conference offered sessions on lock picking, escaping high security hand cuffs and a lock picking village.

Tom Ericson, a retired bank employee who lives in Denmark, still can't get over how he lost about Euro 60,000 (US$90,000) in a bogus lottery.

It feels strange writing this, I won't have Bill Gates to kick around anymore. (Or, given that he still plans to visit the Redmond campus once a week, I'll only have 20 percent of him to kick around.) Of all the tech targets I've pummeled over the years, the world's third richest man easily commands the pole position.

With an estimated 90 billion e-mails sent worldwide everyday, chances are we have all received one that starts like this: