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The Storm worm has temporarily abandoned its tactic of using recent news happenings in its spam and is instead fabricating current events. Multi-award winning science fiction author Jack Dann will take centre stage as the keynote speaker at Gartner’s upcoming security conference and extrapolate a futuristic threat landscape. Google is the search engine of choice for both consumers and hackers, according to infosec experts. Being public enemy number one is a lot more mundane than you might think, the notorious hacker tells Paul Fisher as he awaits extradition. When truth is stranger than fiction — as it often is in enterprise IT departments — managing technology assets securely can require a powerful imagination. Indeed, how IT departments cope with issues such as the obsoleting of hard drives and eliminating so-called “double-campers ” from their resources might well determine whether or not they can claim their IT assets are truly secure. Malicious hackers have come a long way from the computer geeks who would write viruses for relatively harmless kicks, a panel of security experts said this week. There was a good article in a recent issue of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the portrayal of national security issues on film and TV (http://tinyurl.com/dec6v). As you might imagine, modern fiction is often, well, fictional in its portrayal of nuclear weapons, "homeland security" and the like. Aliens could hack the internet and spread viruses if proper precautions are not put in place, warned a top scientist. Zero Day attacks sound like an invention of science fiction, but the threat of damage from a previously unidentified – and therefore unprotected-against – risk to IT systems is becoming increasingly concerning for organizations. The first person to hold a PhD in forensics, Emlyn Everitt tells David Quainton that the battle for security begins in the boardroom In 1984 William Gibson's epoch-making novel Neuromancer introduced the world to the term cyberpunk (although many would argue that the term was actually coined by science fiction writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois). As deployment of biometric technology becomes widespread, Illena Armstrong wonders if the interest is truly genuine.