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• 11 signs your kid is hacking -- and what to do about it

  Here’s how to find out if your child is involved in malicious online activity -- before the authorities do

• Four tech nightmares keeping IT leaders up at night

  What’s keeping CIOs awake at night? From data breaches to social engineering, there’s plenty to keep tech types tossing and turning.

• Unseen, all-out cyber war on the US has begun

  Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet

• Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

  Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.

• Top 10 hacking movies

  2011 so far has been filled with news of high-profile hacking - the Epsilon data breach, Microsoft and the various attempts of the nefarious Anonymous. Even the Australian Government copped a little unwanted interest. With this in mind, we thought it was time to track down the top ten Hollywood movies about hacking.

• 12 "White Hat" hackers you should know

  These "White Hat" security researchers are ethical hackers whose discoveries and inventions shake things up — as they try to stay one step ahead of their underground "Black Hat" cousins…

• TechCrunch quits trickling Twitter docs

  TechCrunch concluded its days-long drip of <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168462/twitter_hacked_secrets_to_be_revealed.html?tk=rel_news">stolen Twitter documents</a> with details on the company's conversations with Google and Microsoft.