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National Home   About National   National Papers   National Alerts   Mailing List   Report Incident   AusCERT Home   Site Map This National web site and associated free mailing list has been established to facilitate access to the AusCERT National Information Technology Alert Service and to the National IT Incident Reporting Scheme. The Alert Service provides access to information which may assist organisations to protect their networks and respond to an incident in the event of a computer network attack or compromise. As the national computer emergency response team (CERT) for Australia, AusCERT is a trusted and authoritative source of advice about the latest threats and vulnerabilities affecting computer systems and a source of expertise to help member organisations respond to and recover from computer network attacks. ESB-2008.1123 -- [Mac][OSX] -- Security Update 2008-008 / Mac OS X v10.5.6 - Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Security Update 2008-008 have been released. (16/12/2008) ESB-2008.1066 -- [Appliance] -- Cisco Response to TKIP Encryption Weakness - This advice applies to all wireless networking products. (28/11/2008) AL-2008.0111 -- [Win][Linux][Solaris][OSX] -- Security Update available for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 - (05/11/2008) AL-2008.0103 -- [Win] -- MS08-058 - Critical - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. (15/10/2008) More.. Protecting your computer from malicious code - This paper provides practical advice for protecting the PC desk top environment from malicious code for home users, SMEs or organisations without dedicated IT staff. (07/03/2008) Practical Computer Security slides - AusCERT has released a basic Microsoft Powerpoint presentation to assist organisations with providing introductory computer security awareness training to individuals. (28/02/2008) AusCERT UNIX and Linux Security Checklist - This document is designed to assist system administrators in organisations of all sizes by providing a concise guide to running UNIX and Linux systems securely. (25/07/2007) "Prime Minister" trojans responsible for infecting Australians' computers - A series of "Prime Minister " spam emails has lead to the infection of about 1,000 computers in Australia jeopardising the confidentiality and integrity of all personal data and passwords contained on entered on those computers. (21/02/2007) AusCERT submission to the Review of the structure and operation of the .au Internet domain 2006 - How the domain name space is administered affects the ability of attackers to launch attacks against Internet users. Therefore, AusCERT recommends that policies and procedures be adopted to minimise the misue of the domain name registration and deregistration process to facilitate various forms of cybercrime. (29/11/2006) Media Release - Response to recent media coverage of the A-311 Death (aka: Haxdoor) trojan - In recent days there has been a significant amount of media attention regarding the A-311 Death Trojan (also known as Haxdoor). On Wednesday 2 August 2006 the Australian Taxation Office released a statement regarding virus infections which had captured tax file numbers. This media release attempts to clarify a number of points regarding AusCERT's handling of this incident. (04/08/2006)

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