| Video: Hacker Joe Grand offers IT advice Joe Grand, a hardware hacker and host of Discovery's Prototype This! TV show, offers advice on how IT can share information with non-technical colleagues. 4 Steps to the Security Industry's Economic Survival Everyone is focused on clinging to a job or finding a new one in these dark economic times. In doing so, avoiding controversy and risk is usually standard operating procedure. But it shouldn't be, according to several security industry heavyweights who attended the recent SOURCE Boston conference. BBC in hot water for hiring botnet The BBC has been come in for sharp criticism over the decision by its Click computing show to hire a live botnet to demonstrate the ease with which spam can bombard e-mail users. Kraken the botnet: The ethics of counter-hacking The Kraken is a huge network of personal computers that have been infected with software that turns them into zombie systems under the control of a master program - a botnet. The Kraken botnet is used by criminals to generate spam. Next Symantec CEO to focus on security In three weeks, Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec's chief operating officer Enrique Salem will assume the role of "CEO designate", and drive the company's focus back to security following a period of strayed focus, he said. Two start-ups, Egress and SafeMashups, make debut today Two start-ups, Egress Software Technologies and SafeMashups, each make their debut today with security products that have a crypto-tech edge to make data flowing across the Internet safer. Securing Your Virtualized Environment Virtualization promises to make IT departments more flexible, more efficient and -- perhaps most crucial in these tough times -- more frugal. But one advantage the technology doesn't provide is an escape from the need for strong security measures. Security management: 3 key considerations What should you ask when buying security information management software? Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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