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Q&A: Hackers and experimental artists (Interviews) The “Noise vs. Subversive Computing” project is a collaborative release split between noise/experimental artists and subversive technologists/computer hackers. Ten representatives from each camp were asked to contribute a piece of work which could be anything at all: an audio track, a drawing, a written passage, software, video, combination of all that, or anything else that can be converted to binary. The Noisicians had “Subversive Computing” as their central theme, and the Technologists worked with “Noise”. We've spoken with the main voice behind the project, Pascal Cretain.

Q&A: Cyber threats (Interviews) Mohd Noor Amin is the Chairman of IMPACT and heads the world’s largest public-private partnership against cyber threats. In this interview, he discusses the issues associated with combating cyber threats, high profile attacks as well as IMPACT's work and future endeavors.

Q&A: Security testing methodologies (Interviews) Jon Clay is the Senior Core Technology Marketing Manager at Trend Micro and in this interview he discusses current testing methodologies in the security industry, their good sides and shortcomings. He closes by outlining methodologies he'd like to see established and offers advice to developers of security products.

Q&A: Insider bank fraud (Interviews) Shirley Inscoe is the Director of Financial Services Solutions at Memento. Before this, she worked at Wachovia Bank for 29 years. Shirley co-authored the book "Insidious: How Trusted Employees Steal Millions and Why It Is So Hard for Banks to Stop Them". In this interview she discusses insider bank fraud and illustrates how it happens and what we can do to mitigate it.

Q&A: Digital signatures and use cases for Adobe CDS (Interviews) Steve Duncan is the Director of Entrust Certificate Services. Entrust Certificates for Adobe CDS enable organizations to use digital signatures to sign Adobe PDF files with confidence. Recipients feel more confident by seeing the visual trust indicators that verify who published the document and whether it has been altered.

Q&A: Web application scanning (Interviews) Mike Shema is the Web Application Security Engineer at Qualys. In this interview, he discusses the challenges related to effective Web application scanning, the way a Web application product adapts to new attack vectors, security at the developer level, current and future threats.

Q&A: Passwords (Interviews) Dmitry Sklyarov is an IT security analyst at Elcomsoft. In this interview he discusses strong and insecure passwords, the compromise between usability and security as well as software you can use to make sure your credentials are safe.

Q&A: Wireshark (Interviews) Gerald Combs works with the developers of WinPcap at CACE Technologies as the Director of Open Source Projects, and is the lead developer of Wireshark. In this interview, he discusses Wireshark in detail, with history details and features to what we can expect in the future.

Q&A: Web application security (Interviews) Robert Abela is a Technical Manager at Acunetix and in this interview he discusses Web application attack vectors, the impact of Cross-Site Scripting, future threats and offers advice on securing Web applications.

Q&A: Ubuntu 9.10 security (Interviews) Kees Cook is the security engineer and Gerry Carr is the head of platform marketing at Canonical. In this interview they discuss the security improvements in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, the security challenges the Ubuntu team faces as well as what the latest version of Ubuntu offers to the developer community.

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