At this year’s CanSecWest conference, would-be crackers could try their skills on three separate laptops: One running OS X, one running Ubuntu, and one running Vista. At the end of the three-day security conference in Vancouver, Canada, last week, both the Mac OS X Leopard and Vista machines had been cracked, leaving only the Ubuntu […]
TSA throws away passenger’s toothpaste, freaks out over his JBL On Tour speaker system, and lets him pass through with a lock-knife keychain, twice
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As the Federal Housing Authority is called upon to help stem the tide of foreclosures, its top official Alphonso R. Jackson has resigned amidst allegations that he gave cushy housing contracts in the Virgin Islands and New Orleans to his pals.
Costco is issuing a voluntary recall for 10,368 pounds of Discover Cuisine frozen chicken entrees under suspicion that the chicken may be contaminated with Listeria
the mouthwash??
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full
inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials after the
mistaken delivery of ballistic missile fuses to Taiwan, the Pentagon
said Thursday.
Gates told officials with the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics
Agency to assess inventory control procedures for the materials and to
submit a report within 60 days.
Earlier this […]
U.S. postal authorities have approved more than 10,000 law enforcement requests to record names, addresses and other information from the outside of letters and packages of suspected criminals every year since 1998, according to U.S. Postal Inspection Service data.
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Gartner says:
2003: “IDSs [intrusion detection systems] have failed to provide value relative to its costs and will be obsolete by 2005.” (Gartner, “Gartner Information Security Hype Cycle Declares Intrusion Detection Systems a Market Failure”)
2008: “Our adversaries are very adept at hiding attacks in normal traffic. The only true way to protect our networks is to […]
Now that we’re down to a very small (but no less evil) playing field, I figured I’d take a look at what exactly qualifies the remaining candidates to run for high office (besides possibly being high). As best I can figure it, it goes like this:
[Hillary]
Vote for me because I have the experience. I was […]
The Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) coalition filed suit against 11 drug companies in 2002 for artificially inflating the average wholesale price, or AWP, of certain drugs…
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Another person has stepped forward to allege that a “major wireless carrier” may have aided the FBI’s warrantless wiretapping program
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