Media Coverage (reverse chronological order):

• "Lock picking for computer scientists", by Matt Blaze
• Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes (thanks to Michael Stern)
• Protecting against online identity theft (thanks to Sue Wijewardena)
• Some anonymous proxies: Private Navigator and iNetPrivacy Software (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• A new phishing attack (thanks to Adam Axelrod)
• Gates proposes using authentication techniques not based on weak passwords (thanks to Michael Stern)
• The problem with electronic voting, by Schneier (thanks to Michael Stern)
• New rules make domain hijackinh easier (thanks to Suzanne Yee)
• A cracking tool for low-entropy WPA keys is available (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• An "error" in an electronic voting system gives Bush extra votes in Ohio...hmm... (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• First felony spam conviction
• Exploit found in gmail (thanks to Michael Stern and Luis Emilio)
• Continued concerns about the security of Diebold's voting machines (thanks to Sue Wijewardena)
• Interesting article about identity theft (thanks to Sue Wijewardena)
• E-voting approved with only scant security review (thanks to Kavita Khurana)
• George Bush's election site blocks access from overseas for security reasons (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• E-voting companies publicly release (part of) their source code
• Most users unaware of PC threats (thanks to Sue Wijewardena)
• Improved security for IP telephony (thanks to Sue Wijewardena)
• Malware targeting MacOS (thanks to Suzanne Yee)
• Online users not as safe as they think (thanks to Suzanne Yee)
• Unauthorized access to Purdue University's computer network (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Privacy concerns with Google's new desktop search tool (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• A company offering a product for private web surfing (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Security vulnerability in Google's desktop search tool (thanks to Sureshmi Wijewardena)
• New vulnerabilities in browsers (thanks to Luis Emilio):
  • An interesting set of spoofing attacks
  • Internet Explorer
• California reports massive data breach (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Microsoft and Cisco team up on security (thanks to Sureshmi Wijewardena)
• A good article on tightening wireless LAN security (thanks to Sureshmi Wijewardena)
• New method to trace documents to specific printers (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Applied Digital makes VeriChip, an identity badge worn under the skin (registration required), to provide secure access to medical records
• Seven critical vulnerabilities announced by Microsoft on the same day (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• The EU is making a push for quantum cryptography (thanks to Amarpreet Singh)
• Top 20 security vulnerabilities (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Are network connections more trouble than they are worth due to all the associated security problems?
• "Simple" home security? (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Using techniques from bioinformatics to reverse engineer security protocols (thanks to Neha Gupta)
• Is North Korea training computer hackers? (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Do the advantages of current e-voting systems outweigh the disadvantages? Of course, it should be possible to have the advantages without the disadvantages... (thanks to Neha Gupta)
• More details on attacking Diebold systems --- an article on the topic by Bev Harris (thanks to Bernard Ng)
• An experimental quantum crypto testbed is up and running (thanks to Amarpeet Singh)
• An interesting survey showing how lightly most users take security risks (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• The cybersecurity chief of the DHS to resign (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Another article about the latest e-voting exploits (thanks to Austin Kim)
• A virus exploiting the JPEG bug has been posted to USENET. Further information here (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• An old but still fascinating article about generating secure pseudorandom numbers, and what happens when you don't (thanks to Chamara Mendis)
• A nice article about the legacy of DES (thanks to Kavita Khurana)
• More on the security company that hired a former hacker (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Even a monkey can tanper with election results (the links to ohter articles are also very illuminating). Anyone think this election couldn't be hacked if someone wanted to badly enough? (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• A comic about the "security" of electronic voting
• Information on the 2004 Global Information Security Survey (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• NSF awarded grants to establish security research centers (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• A denial of service attack on a credit card processing company (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Microsoft releases a patch for the recent JPEG vulnerability [see below] (thanks to Michael Yoo)
• Microsoft to share source code with the government (thanks to Michael Yoo)
• An interesting attack using the anti-spam laws to the advantage of hackers (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• AOL to offer two-tiered authentication (using RSA's SecureID) to its users (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• A virus can be embedded in a JPEG file (thanks to Luis Emilio)
• Security review of Windows XP SP2, and some further comments
• Security flaws in the US Emergency Alert System
• Interesting discussion of security issues for supermarket "self-checkout" lanes
• A scary-but-fascinating look at concealed weapons (with pictures and X-ray images), from the FBI
• Attacking Windows (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Another story about employing (former?) hackers (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• The government employs hackers for national defense (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Writers of a worm looking for a job? (thanks to Johnny Wang)
• Apple fixes security flaws in Mac OS X (thanks to Kavita Khurana)
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