Experts weigh in on how to prevent your current salary from becoming an issue when you are trying to land a new job.

The toughest interview question isn’t "Tell me about yourself." It’s not "Why do you want to work here?" "What don’t you like about your current job?" or even "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?"

These questions are close runners up, but most experts argue that the toughest interview question is, "What is your current salary?" This is true for a simple reason: If you answer the question honestly, you may not get the salary you want, and if you answer it dishonestly, you may not get the job you want.

In the melange of technology and politics that describes the story of the White House email controversy, there is yet another chapter. In our latest plot twist, the White House CIO claims that email messages from 2003 to 2005 either can’t be produced because they’re not missing, because the computers they were on have been destroyed, or because it’s too hard to find them. In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz digs in and provides a detailed analysis and point-counterpoint to the White House’s response, along with exploring a key element that all of the parties to this controversy seem to be missing. And, sadly, he’s also uncovered at least two new serious security risks at the White House. Read on.

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For those of you who can’t wait to listen to David one more time, we’ve got his interview, downloadable as an MP3 from KOGA-AM AM 930 and KCMX-FM "Hot Country" 106.5. For those of you keeping track, we think this is the first time David’s made it to "Hot Country". Don’t expect any line dancing.

The old adage "money doesn’t buy happiness" proves true in a new survey of IT leaders commissioned by executive search firm Harvey Nash USA and sponsored by KPMG. The survey, which drew 258 responses from CIOs, CTOs, senior- and mid-level IT managers, and other C-level executives, found that IT leaders’ compensation is on an upward trajectory.

According to the results, 75 percent of respondents earn a base salary of more than $125,000 per year; that’s up from 70 percent last year and 36 percent two years ago. And 56 percent of respondents say that they earn an annual salary of more than $150,000, compared with 41 percent last year. At the top, 29 percent of respondents report earning more than $200,000 per year, compared to 19 percent last year. Harvey Nash’s findings look similar to the compensation data from our 2008 State of the CIO research.

D-Link routers may have been infected by a worm or bot according to security researchers at Symantec. However, the company has backtracked on its intitial reports that a bot had definitely been identified.

The security company had issued warning to customers of its DeepSight threat notification service saying that there were "reliable reports" of an in-the-wild worm or bot that was attacking, then installing itself, on D-Link routers.

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Atlanta, IBM announced that it will collaborate with two of America’s leading academic institutions on an initiative to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing. The effort is aimed at developing future technologies and training IT professionals required to enhance the performance and energy usage of computing applications while increasing productivity in the workplace.

David will be doing an interview tomorrow morning at 8AM Central time on KOGA-AM 930, which broadcasts from Ogallala, NE. Sometime later tomorrow, we’ll have a Web address where you can listen to the full interview online. Next week, David will be on CKWR-FM, but we don’t have all the details yet for you.

EnterpriseDB announced on Tuesday that it had raised $10 million from funders including IBM, which took a small but symbolically laden stake in the four-year-old open-source database maker.

EnterpriseDB’s products are based around the open-source PostgreSQL technology, a rival to the more popular MySQL. For several years, Sun Microsystems had been one of the strongest supporters of PostgreSQL, bundling it with its Solaris 10 operating system and partnering with EnterpriseDB to provide support.

The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise among major brands fuels that debate.

There is a history here, and Mike Krigsman’s "IT extinction" post was designed to take a specific view that reflects long term user frustration at what they see as an often intransigent and power crazed organization. As with all such positions, it reflects a partial reality. It is easy to understand how IT managers or those that routinely engage with IT decision makers might be concerned at Mike’s position.

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