Each year, Security magazine honors top security executives who positively impact the security industry, their organization, their colleagues and their peers. They change the security landscape for the better.

They are nominated by their colleagues and associates, and they are chosen based upon their leadership qualities and the overall positive impact that their security projects, programs or departments have on their shareholders, organizations, colleagues and general public.

Dancing Bunnies is a technical term made up by geeks about how people will forget online security principles whenever they see dancing bunnies or any other cute animals.

A recent test was conducted telling people they were looking at real and fake banking websites. They were asked to pick out the real ones from the fakes. Many participants were tricked by a fake banking site, which had an animated bear on it – they considered it a legitimate site! When asked why, they said the animation was so complex it seemed legitimate!

First Lockheed Martin, now Northrup Gruman may have been hit by an attack.

We have also been alerted that Google announced that key people had their email accounts hacked with some of the specific targets aimed at executives of the U.S. Government. Although cyber attacks on the Defense Industry and Silicon Valley are not new, the pace and escalation seem to be faster than previous trends. Some security analysts indicate that this reinforces the theory that it is difficult to secure every vulnerability due to organization limitations that may include priorities, funding and/or human resources.