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There is a wide gap between IT security skills that organisations need and the skills IT professionals bring to the job, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). CompTia research finds big gap between perception and reality India and Pakistan have taken to hacking away at each other, with cyber hooligans from both countries using their tech skills to deface their rival nation’s websites. Looking for the board to invest in your security project? Learn to speak their language before you pitch, suggest Jessica Twentyman The number of websites defaced in protest of the Israeli invasion of Gaza dramatically spiked over the weekend as the war entered its 10th day on Monday. The bitter reality of tough times can be made more sour by bad relations with the employees who can do real damage. Companies still underestimating the level of risk, says new report. Security firm Sans Institute is asking developers to volunteer for a new research project due to launch in the coming months. The anonymity and universal access of cyberspace makes cybercrime attractive and easy. An American who helped a New Zealand hacker has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and five years of probation. 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. A teen hacker who admitted taking down a US university's computer, was allowed to walk free from court yesterday. SOX, HIPAA, Basel II, CobIT – the alphabet soup of industry and government regulations regarding information security seems to get bigger each year.

ZoneLabs has issued an advisory detailing workarounds for those locked out of their internet connections by Microsoft's latest round of bug fixes. We all dream of being our own boss, but what does it take to set up a successful business in the real world? Mark Mayne has some advice. Internet surfers who misspell the name of a popular website have a one in 14 chance of landing on a site owned by someone trying to capitalise on your poor typing skills, a McAfee report revealed today. Aviva's Paul Wood is right when he says in your cover story that information security people focus too much on technology (SC, July, p27). Two crimeservers containing 500 megabytes of stolen data have been discovered in Argentina and Malaysia. Chinese police have arrested a 19 year-old suspected of hacking into a seismology website and falsely warning of a major earthquake, according to state media.. So you want to be a CISO? Make sure you know what the top role involves - and what it doesn't, says Paul Simmonds.