It's been easy to see why, historically, most Mac users haven't felt the same level of security-related anxiety as Windows users. Until now, no one has really bothered targeting them.

The online environment is just like the real world, yet for some reason many consumers completely abandon their street smarts the second they fire up their browsers. When a leather-clad, toothless ruffian is walking up and down the street saying "give me $500 and I'll come back in an hour with a computer worth $1000," everyone knows not to trust him. Yet this is the same premise by which many scams, such as online auction fraud, are perpetrated.

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In this first post in our fresh new RB2 podcast feed, you'll hear Krusher's presentation to the second Kiwicon conference in New Zealand.

Sure, maybe its not 1994AD any more. But let me posit this, which I culpably dub Metlstorm's Assertion:

1. Misunderstanding.

The idea was simple. We'd install a bunch of anti-virus products and see who could modify existing viruses to sneak them past detection engines. There'd be beer and banter, a fun afternoon. It wasn't really a scientific contest -- most of the functionality of the scanners was actually turned off. We'd only test the CLI-based signature and heuristic components of the suites.

Thanks to a stellar effort by Gold (his real name, no kidding) at Evolved Development, we've been able to put together what we hope will be Australia's premier information security news site.

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This edition of Risky Business is sponsored by Sophos.

Yeah yeah, we've all heard about the threat from social networks -- employees post juicy information that attackers can hoover up during reconnaissance. But what if a determined attacker actually infiltrated the social network that exists between your employees? What if they then used that trust to phish for VPN passwords?

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This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Sophos and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting.

This week's edition of Risky Business is a bit different -- we take a look back over the big stories of 2008 and highlight the best work we saw over the last 12 months.

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This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Microsoft.

This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Tenable Network Security and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting.

This week's edition of Risky Business is sponsored by Check Point Software Technologies and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting.