From RISKS 25.57. I have friends who dive and hope to get certified myself soon so this is of particular concern. Date: 17 Feb 2003 05:35:20 -0800 From: tom.race@skipton.co.uk (Tom Race) Subject: …

A 2-17-2003 very short Reuters story reports that Over 5 million Visa/MasterCard accounts hacked into “More than five million Visa and MasterCard accounts throughout the nation were accessed …

From RISKS 22.56 “Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:46:37 -0500 From: “Rebecca Mercuri” Subject: Risks of Doing Homework At the faculty meeting at Bryn Mawr College on 12 Feb 2003, we were …

A Wired article describes an unbelievable story of reporter Noah Shachtman trivially breaching the physical security at none-other-than Los Alamos National Laboratory described as “the …

What to buy… For my birthday, I’m looking to buy myself a digital music jukebox player/recorder. There are plenty of options, but none of which meet all of my requirements. I’m …

" In a paper researchers at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory of Swiss University (Lasec) EPFL demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites in SSL and TLS. The attack assumes …

Citibank is trying to prevent the disclosure of new scientific research that has apparently broken ATM PIN confidentiality protection wide-open. This is even in the face of “phantom” …

A recent MIT study of 129 used hard drives indicated that people leave a treasure trove of data behind on their discarded computers. This begs the question of how can you securely dispose of old hard …

-1984 “Big Brother is watching you - and documenting eBay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data to law enforcement officials” Buyer (and seller) beware… …

DRM is getting even more annoying, dangerous, and insidious. Intuit thought that it would be necessary to utilize a product called SafeCast to prevent unauthorized copying of its popular TurboTax …