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Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War 266

An anonymous reader writes " The kind of turf war seen in the real world by drug gangs is being replicated by the criminal gangs behind spamming botnets, and things are turning nasty."
Security

Do We Really Need a Security Industry? 297

netbuzz noted that Bruce Schneir's latest column discusses the security industry where he points out that "The primary reason the IT security industry exists is because IT products and services aren't naturally secure. If computers were already secure against viruses, there wouldn't be any need for antivirus products. If bad network traffic couldn't be used to attack computers, no one would bother buying a firewall. If there were no more buffer overflows, no one would have to buy products to protect against their effects. If the IT products we purchased were secure out of the box, we wouldn't have to spend billions every year making them secure."
Biotech

Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace 655

gandracu writes "It appears that a variety of genetically modified maize produced by Monsanto is toxic for the liver and kidneys. What's worse, Monsanto knew about it and tried to conceal the facts in its own publications. Greenpeace fought in court to obtain the data and had it analyzed by a team of experts. MON863, the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. Here are Greenpeace's brief on the study and their account of how the story was unearthed (both PDFs)."
Encryption

Schneier On the US Crypto Competition 58

Bruce Schneier has a commentary in Wired titled An American Idol for Crypto Geeks on the US government's competition for a new cryptographic hash function to become the national standard, covered here recently. He talks about how much the competition, slated to wrap up by 2011, will advance the cryptographic state of the art. And how much fun he expects to have.

Comment Re:Alternative browsers = more secure? (Score 2, Interesting) 298

The reason Firefox is more secure is because when an exploit is found it's fixed, with IE it takes a long time. Last year Firefox was vulnerable to exploits for 9 days while "Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006." They also have a nice chart showing this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/da ily/graphics/index20070104.html

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