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"Tiger Team" Reality TV Show

On Court TV: This vérité action series follows Tiger Team ­ a group of elite professionals hired to infiltrate major business and corporate interests with the objective of exposing weaknesses in the...

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"Holy Schneier"

I’m now an exclamation.

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Airport Security Study

Surprising nobody, a new study concludes that airport security isn’t helping: A team at the Harvard School of Public Health could not find any studies showing whether the time-consuming process of...

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Picasso Stolen from Brazilian Museum

A professional job: The thieves used a hydraulic car jack to pry their way past the pull-down metal gate that protects the museum’s front entrance. Then, they smashed through two glass doors, probably...

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Security of Adult Websites Compromised

This article claims the software that runs the back end of either 35% or 80%-95% (depending on which part of the article you read) has been compromised, and that the adult industry is hushing this up....

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FBI Building Biometrics Database

The FBI is building a vast biometrics database. Given its track record, does anyone believe for a minute that his or her biometrics information will be secure in this database?

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New Lithium Battery Rules for U.S. Airplanes

Starting in 2008, there are new rules for bringing lithium batteries on airplanes: The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Paper Squid in Box

Pretty.

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The Nugache Worm/Botnet

I’ve already written about the Storm worm, and how it represents a new generation of worm/botnets. And Scott Berinato has written an excellent article about the Gozi worm, another new-generation...

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More Chasers on Terrorism

This is a couple of years old, but I hadn’t seen it before. Funny.

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