Schneier on Security: Cybercrime Pays
Cybercrime Pays

This sentence jumped out at me in an otherwise pedestrian article on criminal fraud:

“Fraud is fundamentally fuelling the growth of organised crime in the UK, earning more from fraud than they do from drugs,” Chris Hill, head of fraud at the Norwich Union, told BBC News.

I’ll bet that most of [...]

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken
SHA-1 Broken

SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing.

The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper describing their results:

collisions in the the full SHA-1 [...]

NerdTests.com Fun Tests – Computer Geek / Nerd Quiz

Your Score Summary

Overall, you scored as follows:

6% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
94% scored lower (less geeky).

Compared to those in the same age group as you:

9% scored higher (more computer geeky),
1% scored the same, and
90% scored lower (less geeky).

What does this mean? Your [...]

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