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    How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.

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    On the case with the Exodus Cyber Attack Tiger Team. They're taking down hackers, organised criminals, script kiddies, and other threats to your business.

  • Radio industry tackles digital changes

    Old problems such as the decades-long illegal practice of payola and new challenges such as the digital convergence of entertainment are expected to be the hot topics in Los Angeles at an annual meeting of radio and music executives.

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    A handful of private companies have started to take enforcement into their own hands, quietly developing security units to protect their clients' assets in cyberspace. What has emerged is a powerful, albeit clandestine, industry within an industry, with an unsurpassed access to otherwise classified security information that is now seeking to exercise its political clout to make the virtual business world safer for commerce.

  • Putting a kind face on copyright battles

    In a world where cops warn that programmers are set to unleash a "Pearl Harbor" of Internet attacks, crackers don monikers such as "Mafiaboy," and malicious pranksters unleash viruses named "I Love You" and "Melissa," it's becoming difficult to paint hackers as sympathetic characters.

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