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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.

Q&A: Hard drive encryption (Interviews) Dave Anderson is Director, Strategic Planning for Seagate and is involved in developing the opportunities for hard drives to contribute to system security. In this interview he discusses the various aspects of hard drive encryption.

Q&A: Malware threats, Windows 7 and cyber crime (Interviews) Bo Olsen is a malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab Americas. In this interview he discusses new malware threats, the problems the anti-malware industry faces today, Windows 7 and organized crime.

Q&A: Security challenges in today's economy (Interviews) Dave Hansen is the Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager, CA Security Management. In this interview, he discusses how the underground economy is impacting large organizations and tackles the good and bad sides of compliance.

Q&A: Social networking privacy issues (Interviews) Brian Honan is the founder of BH Consulting and head of Ireland's first CERT team. As a speaker at RSA Conference Europe 2009 he discussed the danger of social networks and showed how he was able to discover detailed information about a person. In this interview, he outlines the privacy issues of social networking, online anonymity and more.

Q&A: Fuzzing (Interviews) Ari Takanen is the CTO of Codenomicon and a regular speaker at security conferences. He's presenting today at RSA Conference Europe and in this interview he discusses fuzzing, a software testing technique that provides unexpected, random or invalid data to the inputs of a program.

Q&A: Mac OS X security and forensics (Interviews) Sean Morrissey is a Computer Forensic Analyst at the U.S. Department of State and is the lead author of "Mac OS X iPod and iPhone Forensic Analysis". In this interview he discusses the various issues with Mac OS X security and underlines that the majority of users is not aware of these shortcomings. Morrissey also offers insight into the practice of Mac forensics and how it differs from other operating systems.

Q&A: Worldwide surveillance and filtering (Interviews) Rafal Rohozinski is a founder and principal investigator of the Information Warfare Monitor and the OpenNet Initiative, where he directs a network of field-based staff in Asia, the CIS and Middle East. Rafal has 18 years of field-based experience working in an operational and advisory capacity in 37 countries. In 2005-2006, Rafal served as an embedded Chief Technical Advisor to the Palestinian Authority.

Q&A: Splunk (Interviews) In this interview the Splunk team discusses Splunk in detail.

Q&A: Information assurance (Interviews) Ravinderpal “Ravi” Sandhu is The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)'s Lutcher Brown distinguished chair in cyber security and the executive director of UTSA's Institute for Cyber Security. He holds thirteen U.S. patents for security technology and has received more than 30 sponsored research grants. In this interview, he discusses information assurance.

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