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Facing the pain of passwords | News - Security - CNET News.com: "'This is a horrible problem,' said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, who has written about the situation on his own blog. 'Passwords have largely outlived their usefulness.'"

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Facing the pain of passwords | News - Security - CNET News.com: "'This is a horrible problem,' said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, who has written about the situation on his own blog. 'Passwords have largely outlived their usefulness.'"

Source: cnet

Five Things Kevin Mitnick Has Learned About Computer Security - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership: "I was doing this before it was illegal. And my interest was entertainment—the pursuit of knowledge, challenge and the trophy of the stolen information."

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BTVOL The Truth Is Out There

Chinese EMP Weaponry Hackers Can Shut Down USA

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The dangers of cloud computing

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Syrian hacker lives by his own code - The Boston Globe: "For a few bucks, the Syrian programmer will unlock the security codes for any program you send him via e-mail or online chat. But do not ask him to break into your former girlfriend's e-mail account or steal sales data from your competitor.
After all, Mahaini maintains, he is an ethical pirate, a devout Muslim who prays five times a day and breaks into software only because his country is under US sanctions and he has little choice."

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Security Community Cooperates To Fix 'DNS Poisoning' -- Internet Security -- InformationWeek: "US-CERT, the government's cyber security arm, on Tuesday warned of a serious weakness in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that could be used to send Internet users to malicious sites."

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the Daily Irrelevant: "With the full-scale rollout of Japan’s cigarette vending machine age-verification system just around the corner, a Sankei Sports news reporter has confirmed the existence of a minor flaw: magazine photos can be used to fool the age-verification cameras on some machines."

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AFP: Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web: "'It's a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works,' Securosis analyst Rich Mogul said in a media conference call."

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