Well, it would stink to work in either the PR department or the software development department at Monster.com right about now. The Infostealer.Monstres Trojan that was discovered attacking the job seeker site late last week just keeps sounding worse and worse. Bad enough that the malicious code collected 1.6 million records containing e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses and resume details of job seekers, but now the clever boys and girls at Symantec have figured out what the bad guys want to do with that information.

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Freelancer Blog

Elfriede Dustin has written numerous books and articles about testing and test automation. While I haven't read any of them myself, multiple someones evidently find her books useful as they have been translated into multiple languages and sell worldwide. She co-chairs the annual VERIFY conference, where one of the three presentation tracks focuses on (surprise!) test automation. She got her start in computers doing a different type of automation - using Wang computers to automate claims processing for the United States federal government. These days she is helping the US military automate their software testing, which seems a rather different challenge than the ones on which I work.

Here is what Elfriede has to say:

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