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  Time to change the locks

  It is bad enough that a thousand hijacked computers can attack a network and take a business offline, but a security professional proved a single person can do the job.

• What are you saying?

  Every week, Computerworld collates all the things our readers have been saying about the news, both in the forums and in comments.

• AusCert 2010: Wrap up

  AusCERT is winding up and most of the vendors, delegates and journalists have gone. It was an enlightening experience. I've chewed the fat with security thinkers, cops and hackers, and picked a few locks and brains.

• AusCert 2010: Hanmore back to CERT

  After less than a year at Microsoft, security officer Karl Hanmore has left the Redmond giant to return to work for Australia's national cyber security team.

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  AusCert 2010: Brilliant engineers in Microsoft walled-garden, says Linux expert

  Linux communities are hostile and Microsoft is a walled garden "stuffed-full of brilliant engineers", according to a former Linux, now Microsoft engineer, Crispin Cowan.

• AusCert 2010: Microsoft to link critical infrastructure security agencies

  Microsoft has launched a world-first global government security network to share information on vulnerabilities and exploits that affect critical infrastructure.

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  AusCert 2010: Australian net filter doomed

  Renowned security expert, Marcus Ranum, has declared Australia's Internet content filter will fail to combat child porn and may not get off the ground.

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  AusCert 2010: Siloed security leaves departments defaced

  The Federal Government should centralise control of IT across agencies and departments to ward-off hackers, according to a US state information security expert.

• AusCert 2010: Defence illusion hack rooted in reality

  A government agency was almost crippled after an employee opened a Trojan-infected PDF file, exposing some 40 adminstration passwords to a hacker.

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  AusCert 2010: Australia protected by anti-DDoS vigilantes

  An informal, low-lying group of sharp minds might be the world's best defence against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, but legal uncertainty is hindering their capabilities.

• AusCERT 2010: Hackers, lockpickers and cops

  Some of the world’s greatest minds in IT security will gather in Queensland’s Gold Coast for the annual AusCERT conference this month.