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Mozilla has taken another security blow with the discovery that Google user accounts can be accessed through a dangerous Firefox exploit.

Secrets aren't advertised; they are protected. The US government keeps some of the biggest secrets of all -- the exposure of which might pose a threat to national security -- in places where the name hides nothing: a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). But the buildings carrying the SCIF label are made to hide everything.

Stratton D. Sclavos, CEO and board member of digital infrastructure vendor VeriSign, resigned from the company Tuesday. No reason was given for the resignation.

Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT advisor to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff. Just as no company is the same as another, the job of CISO -- or alternately, "chief security officer," which might include physical security as well -- isn't either. The four security professionals who share their priorities with us make it clear there's nothing cookie-cutter about the top IT security job.

Sure, you're thinking, records retention can be deadly. Deadly dull

EMC's planned acquisition of RSA Security for US$2.1 billion is garnering mixed reviews from analysts on Wall Street and within the technology industry.

CISOs at midsize businesses face many of the same problems as CISOs at larger companies, but with a lot fewer resources. What they've learned can help any CISO get by on less.

What happens to a company when the unimaginable occurs? When an earthquake hits its primary contract manufacturer? When labour strikes shut down an entire port? When terrorists cripple a transportation system?

Wireless devices are multiplying, making more people more productive . . . and creating enormous management, support and security headaches for CIOs. You need a plan for juggling these new gadgets. Here's the plan.

A state-by-state war driving exercise undertaken in October across Australia's capital cities identified the risk of corporate network intrusions through weak Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN,).

Sure, you've got a million-dollar security battleship, but it's full of. . . 50-Cent Holes!