OK, these aren't just the hot 17 stories of the past week, but of the two weeks before that, too.
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Controversial Wikileaks pinup Julian Assange has been arrested after slipping out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London to seek medical treatment at a nearby clinic.
Have you ever run into a 'security feature' that ... well ... unpassable? Like the Black Knight, "None shall pass" ...except if you're a baddie? Here's just one example that clearly proved I wasn't human ...wait....what?!
Dave Estlick, VP of Information Security at Starbucks, has been promoted to Vice President, Technology Infrastructure and Enterprise Security Officer.
Estlick has been at Starbucks for three years and was previously Director of Information Security and Compliance at PetSmart, Inc. He has also held IT and security positions with Amazon, Boeing and Sun Microsystems.
Veteran cybercrime investigator Bob Burls looks back on a case where the diligence of an IT professional helped convict a botmaster who had made tens of thousands of dollars.
Another Certificate Authority has been caught out having issued certificates that were being used to impersonate Google. Does the SSL padlock not mean we are safe anymore?