From the feature well: Another InfoWorld IQ Test is here; in this one gauge your Network Security IQ. Think you’re expert? First question: What does Command & Control refer to? “When you’re done, we’ll tally your score and tell you whether you’re a security dud or god.”Security: Later this week Microsoft will hold BlueHat, its pow-wow for security researchers and white hat hackers. Even this latest rev, dubbed BlueHat v6: The vuln behind the curtain, remains a “closed-door” affair, but Microsoft is promising to share details of the conference as it moves along, Matt Hines reports in Microsoft preps for hacker confab. “And, hey, who knows, maybe next year we’ll even get an invite … after all, [the] list of goals pretty much describes the job of anyone whose responsibility is trying to explain IT security trends to business leaders.” Related: Google being used to bypass anti-spam defenses. Careers: Looking to start a consulting business, a reader writes in to ask Bob Lewis what he thinks will be the next big trend in IT management. “It sounds like what you really want to be is an independent contractor,” Lewis writes in Advice Line. “The biggest difference between the two as far as running a business is concerned is that consultants have to be better at selling, since their engagements tend to be shorter.” And what to home in on? Integration of business process improvements with software requirements, and ITIL — remembering of course that good project managers will be in short supply “until long after both you and I are ready to retire.” Gripe Line: A grand is an awful hefty price tag for a latch. But that’s exactly what one reader was billed after sending a Hewlett-Packard notebook back to the company for repair. “Since the laptop was useless as it was, the reader decided to go ahead and send the CPU into HP,” Ed Foster reports in HP’s $1,000 latch. No one at HP was armed with the authority to even answer questions about the order’s status, so the reader checked the online status page and found the ticket exploded from $300 to $1,000. Oh yes, and it contained a note saying HP was currently trying to get in contact with our reader. That had not actually happened and, in fact, HP has yet to return the CPU. “Up until this point, I was a loyal HP customer and even recommended them to friends. That will no longer be the case.” Security