Security: As cyber thieves become more advanced, it is increasingly clear that they are taking some criminal tactics directly from the mafia’s playbook — and so much so that FBI agent Thomas X Grasso Jr. found one who referred to himself as ‘Capo di capo’ or boss of bosses. And the groups are organizing themselves the same way the mob does, Grasso explains. The reason: Cyberspace is still a new frontier for criminals, and its not as dangerous as robbing banks the old-fashioned way. Columnists’ corner: The current hubbub over virtualization support in the Linux kernel, with VMware and Xen pitted against each other, is proof vendors don’t have to be proprietary to be petty, points out Neil McAllister in this week’s installment of Open Enterprise. “All this squabbling is bad for business, of course, especially for vendors such as Red Hat that are waiting for Xen to mature before they green-light it for enterprise use. In fact, Oracle is ‘losing patience’ with the situation, according to one executive, and may start putting pressure on the various players to step up negotiations,” McAllister reports. Best of the blogs: Speaking of VMware and virtualization, Tom Yager reports that VMware for the Mac will debut on August 7, as in today. “The specific product is a secret, but the folks at VMWare were mightily torqued by my Parallels Desktop review’s unchallenged reference to Parallels’ claim of a hypervisor approach,” he writes. “VMWare’s efforts to make sure I come to WWDC with a firm understanding of what a hypervisor is and is not take some of the mystery out of the Monday announcement.” The news beat: EMC takes the SOA road to records management and, along the way, integrates IRM (information rights management) into the new Documentum 5 product suite. Hewlett-Packard’s senior VP of software Tom Hogan explains how mixing Mercury application management software with OpenView yields HP’s secret sauce. And the One Laptop Per Child program says it will include Wikipedia elements in its content repository. Security