CSO resumes: 5 tips to make yours shine

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• CSO resumes: 5 tips to make yours shine
• Researchers create botnet to learn how it works
• OpenBSD chief believes contractor tried to write backdoors
• 'Do Not Track' Coming to Firefox 4
• Microsoft kills Office anti-piracy program
• Six Password Security Tips to Learn from Gawker Hack

CSO resumes: 5 tips to make yours shine Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST The current challenges in today's job market didn't stop Phillip Mahan from bouncing back quickly after a setback. Mahan was laid off from his position as manager of information security and risk management at Unisource Worldwide in February. By April he was working again as the business information security officer with ING. There is a reason why he wasn't on the job hunt for very long: He is fanatical about his resume and his career.

Researchers create botnet to learn how it works Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST An at-scale botnet emulation helps a team of researchers in Canada and France learn more about how armies of zombie computers operate

OpenBSD chief believes contractor tried to write backdoors Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.

'Do Not Track' Coming to Firefox 4 Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST Hard on the heels of Microsoft's decision to offer "do not track" functionality in its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser comes word that Mozilla is planning a similar move for its Firefox 4.

Microsoft kills Office anti-piracy program Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST Microsoft last week killed an anti-piracy service that checked whether customers were running legal copies of Office, saying that the program had 'served its purpose.'

Six Password Security Tips to Learn from Gawker Hack Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST The Germans have a word for it: Schadenfreude, taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune. And I have to admit, I did a feel a twinge of satisfaction when Gawker, one of the snarkiest and most self-satisfied collection of sites on the Web, was hacked. But I do worry about the 1.2 million people whose passwords were stolen and posted on the Web for any moderately skilled bad guy to crack and use.

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