A recently released Congressional Research Service report warns us of the challenges inherent in the establishment of hundreds of biological research labs. Is there a future Bruce Ivins out there? USAToday covers the story: "In an awkward and disturbing irony, the most significant bioterrorism ...

The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic of the constantly-changing login password. Much like the Blizzard Authenticator released for World of Warcraft last year, the Square Enix Security Token is an actual physical device tha...

Unless you’re a real die-hard fan of certain obscure technological practices, you’ve probably never heard of Bernie Spindel. He’s not exactly well-known; his only Wikipedia entry is over in the French edition, and it’s been a couple decades since anyone ever published anythin...

Inexperienced users and even some experienced users have troubles identifying fake emails from legit ones. It is sometimes hard to tell if the email that just arrived in your mail inbox came from a legit company like eBay, Amazon or Citibank or if it is just another phishing attempt. There are some ...

[Dave Birch] One of my most frequent criticisms of the UK's national identity card scheme is that it is backward-looking, an electronic simulation of a Victorian ID card rather than an ID card for the 21st century. I gave an example of this in a talk recently by using the case of OpenID, noting that...

By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] On February 20th, [GAS] warned readers that the current version of Acrobat Reader had a security flaw that bad guys were exploiting to deliver malware.  Adobe has worked hard and just released an updated version of their ubiquitous software for both PC and Mac.  ...

Image via Wikipedia Look what never made it to the mass media outside of Bangor Maine. AlterNet James G. Cummings of Belfast, Maine, a trust fund millionaire who had ties to American Nazi groups, was murdered by his wife two months ago. But, as the FBI found out when investigating James' murder, a h...

Denford Magora’s Zimbabwe Blog Latest Zimbabwe News Latest Zimbabwe Pictures, Comment and Analysis Daily. This blew my head off last december; about the same time as I discovered Jestina Mukoko had also been kidnapped. a Two Year old in Zimbabwe’s Maximum Prison, being used to force his ...

Quote from: DDMurray on Yesterday at 19:04 Hard to say, but one of the first questions is likely to be why he didn't report his bankruptcy when it occurred.  To whom would he report it? Unlike a misdemeanor ar......

The Hill reports on the good news: Charles Freeman, the Obama administration’s choice to head the National Intelligence Council, has withdrawn from consideration after facing strong opposition from Senate Republicans. Actually Senate Democrats like Chuck Schumer and “Independent Democrat...