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When a company’s reputation comes under attack, it can be tempting to bring in the company attorney and fire off a "cease and desist" letter. Unless you’re responding to something that is clearly libelous, trying to cover up your mess by threatening the messenger usually backfires–in a big way.

A tidal wave of shock has swelled across the blogosphere at large in response to publicized death threats targeting well-known blogger Kathy Sierra.

Organizations in many ways contribute the actions of their employees.

First, a general rule of thumb: If you get angry at eBay, it's best not send threatening messages to its executives. This rule, ignored by former eBay apostle Florin Horicianu after feeling he was ripped off by the company, will keep you out of prison and not banned from eBay.

Because nobody wants to compromise the integrity of their network by having some hacker "borrow" your bandwidth or gain access and start snooping around you need to lock down your network.

After students at a San Antonio high school posted messages on MySpace threatening the school, the school district said it would hold MySpace "accountable" for the problem.

Symantec's six-month report on security says there are more bots, more viruses, and more phishes in the world today.

IMLogic recently conducted a survey of 1,100 enterprise instant message users, and found that most people unknowingly expose their computers and company networks to security threats.