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Imagine my surprise when I opened an e-mail last week from Campbell Law Firm, expecting it to be a tedious newsletter"¦only to be met with the news of a possible relative's demise.

Here's a new email in circulation - a 419 scam with a UK flavor.

The National Information Security Group, a kind of infosecurity support group for the masses, launches this week with chapters planned for Milwaukee and Seattle to add to its base in the Boston area.

I came across a reference last weekend to the word "bacronym"--an acronym that seems to have been thought up before the words for which it stands.

It's now 11:55 p.m. on the Doomsday Clock, according to scientists and big-picture risk thinkers who see an increased risk from global climate change and the expansion of the world's Nuclear Club to North Korea and, potentially, Iran.

Globalincidentmap.com maps terrorist activity and other suspicious events.

Marketers found another blank surface to put ads on...

As I was reporting my January feature about the botched HP investigation ("5 Things About Corporate Investigations That Won't Change (As a Result of the Hewlett Packard Scandal)"), I did a lot of thinking and had a lot of conversations about how to run corporate investigations in a responsible way.

We at CSO were saddened to learn this week of the death on Jan. 1 of Dr. William Hancock, a long-time CSO.

Consultants at Systems Experts recently released their version of security management trends for 2006.