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What's so funny about information security? A lot if you read some of the bios that security experts have written about themselves in the official Black Hat conference guide. A tip of the Black Hat to the funniest excerpts from the official bios:

Receptionists are at the front line of communication with customers and guests, which often makes them the first targets for hackers and saboteurs looking for company information.

Security researchers have uncovered "critical" security flaws in a version of the Linux kernel used by a large number of popular distributions.

Apple updated its iTunes music software late Wednesday to patch a critical vulnerability and add features that will only be enabled once the new iPod touch rolls out later this month.

The domain used to host small Google Gadget applications written by Web developers could be misused by phishers, a Web security researcher said Friday.

Security consultancy iSec Partners this week detailed half a dozen ways to compromise VoIP-based phone systems based on the H.323 and Inter Asterisk eXchange protocols.

The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners.

Web services are almost irresistible. Every popular IDE makes them easy to build -- to unlock the data and business logic in legacy systems, to provision common functions that can be shared across multiple platforms, or to provide partner organizations direct access to information or applications. And by their nature, Web services helpfully describe themselves, allowing one system to find and interact with another with little or no human intervention.

Users of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and the Thunderbird e-mail client may be vulnerable to flaws that could allow an attacker to spy on or take over a system, according to security researchers.

A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could have allowed a hacker to gain control of the operating system on user machines has been patched by the open-source community and Linux vendors.

A recent report about a critical flaw in the Linux kernel was the latest in a series of recently discovered security problems with the popular open-source operating system. But many users were unfazed by the report and said Linux remains a solid and secure environment for running enterprise applications.