A must have: Vespa Screensaver. Windows-only, of course. Interested in buying one for me? I could handle the platinum, dragon red, or cobalt blue one. The local dealer location Or, I can at least hope …

Keep this handy for the next MS Worm. Posted to RISKS 22.53: . [From Pete Lindstrom, Spire Security, petelind@spiresecurity.com] * Computer Worm Internet* In the wee hours of , a computer worm spread …

The BSA (Business Software Alliance) is now taken to sending out threatening letters based on the results of a web/ftp spider search for the word “Office”. The RIAA has done similar things …

tecChannel reverse-engineered Windows Update to find that it can spy on other installed applications. It is unclear whether it actually does spy though. Although an article at The Inquirer claims as …

Just heard an NPR story on the Santa Clara e-voting saga. A vote today did not decide on whether they would only go with a system with a paper ballot. Only to test such a system. The Sequoia company …

I heard someone talk about how in the 50’s and 60’s everyone was building bomb shelters for protection against nuclear attack and fallout but now people are being told that some tarp and …

“In what is believed to be the biggest credit card hacking incident so far, Omaha-based Data Processors International, which processes transactions involving Visa, MasterCard, American Express …

o-tia There is a story in this month’s ACM MemberNet publication on the ACM’s opposition to Total Information Awareness (TIA). This isn’t exactly news, because the ADM letter was …

Santa Clara County faces key decision on electronic ballots “The future of electronic voting may be rewritten this week in Santa Clara County, where county leaders are weighing warnings that the …

A study of TCP/IP code of various commercial and open source operating systems found that the defect rate in the Linux implementation was much better than others studied. “The Linux defect rate …