Medical
Not surprisingly, researchers have established brain tissue loss in high altitude summiters. Now to study politicians.
The milk contamination saga goes on. How did so many people become involved without anyone stopping to ask whether this was ultimately a good thing? Reminds me of sub-prime.
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies were identified Wednesday as producing [...]
Cyber attacks against SecureWorks clients in 2008 originated mainly from within the USA, though this doesn’t mean the computers aren’t being controlled from Russia, or elsewhere:
The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from [...]
Schneier points us to a functional paper version (pdf) of the Enigma Machine compatible with the original 3-rotor German Enigma used during World War II from Mike Koss.
Can’t wait to show Ben & Suzanna.
From Schneier, de-muddling news from the NYT:
A team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal — if [...]
Good essay in Wired by Schneier on why security is an externality, so the free-market will not under-supply it, using protection of chemical plants as an example:
If we — whether we’re the community living near the chemical plant or the nation as a whole — expect the owner of that plant to spend money for [...]
A really good story about penetrating one of the hacker-for-pay networks in CIO magazine, pointed out by Schneier. Good read.