Data Protection

The TDSS rootkit is so virulent and effective it built a botnet of more than 4.5 million machines and has better anti-virus than most AV products -- to kill off the competition.

Stringer: the 2nd-largest data breach in history was prompted by Sony suits against customers who mod its game console, not laughable security, poor management and ineffective response.

Popureb infects MBR; so you have to fix the MBR; fixing MBR before recovering wipes your data; if you didn't know that ahead of time, you'd wish you had your data, the trojan, and the MS support tech who wrote the instructions all in front of you at once.

LulzSec, always split between the desire for anarchic lulz and politically motivated high-concept hacking, has disbanded as higher-profile hackers expose details that make arrest more likely.

It took cooperation from cops in U.S., Ukraine, Latvia and eight other countries to investigate and nail one 16-geek bank-robbing hacker gang. Good result; process does not scale.

Law enforcement in at least three countries are actively pursuing LulzSec, but the biggest damage so far has been done by other hackers fed up with LulzSec grandstanding.

After "entertaining you" with Tweets describing its ballsy attacks on everyone and everything LulzSec issues manifesto defending abuse of individuals as entertaining for the 'net gen.

LulzSec and Anonymous flame back and forth in a rivalry for Most Powerful Hactivist but could find that fighting allies wastes energy they should spend fighting The Man and hiding from cops.

Recruiter Howard-Sloan crowned a pharma exec nation's funniest compliance officer after a competition pitting the standup of six of the most hilarious stewards of corporate governance.