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• How your authentication scheme could hurt your business

  Consumers often fail to perform transactions online due to authentication failure. But while they struggle, they also distrust websites with weak authentication procedures.

• IBM predicts five big technologies of the future

  IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology.

• Optus cuts IT help desk costs by 60 per cent

  Optus has slashed its IT help desk costs by 60 per cent after rolling out self-service security software.

• LulzSec harvests Aussie emails, passwords

  Fresh from attacking the CIA's CIO.gov website with a denial of service (DOS) attack, hacker group LulzSec has struck again with a leaked list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, including some harvested from Australian organisations.

• Aussies urged to slash digital footprint, change passwords: PayPal

  A survey commissioned by online payments company, PayPal Australia, has revealed that some Australians don't know the number of websites holding their personal information and many are using the same passwords across multiple accounts, much to the alarm of security experts.

• Mozilla site exposed encrypted passwords

  A Mozilla database was exposed to the Internet, the Mozilla Foundation disclosed

• Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords

  E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.

• Elcomsoft releases iPhone 4 password cracker

  Russian password-cracking company Elcomsoft has released new software that can in some instances figure out the password used to encrypt backed-up iPhone data.

• Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

  Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

• Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts

  Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been harvested via security-compromised torrent Web sites, the company said.

• New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords

  For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.

• Keep your passwords private with LastPass

  This fall, more than 20,000 stolen usernames and passwords for such Webmail providers as AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo appeared on Pastebin.com, a programmer's Website.

• A look at stolen Hotmail data finds simple passwords

  1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail.

• Phishing scam steals Twitter passwords

  Twitter users beware: this scam will not leave you ROFL.