Security News Shootout!
At the end of each month, two consultants from Matta put forward three of their favourite stories in information security and invite a guest judge to pick the best story.
There's no prizes, only fame or shame.
This month, James and Nick battled it out - with Ian Cook of FIRST presiding:
 Nick
First story
AT&T creates a programming language to snoop on us!
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/att-invents-pro.html
Second Story
A wireless router has been backdoored at the firmware level...(you'll have to search through the text toward the beginning to find the part)
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-113.htm
Third Story
Xerox gets clever with DRM
http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/inv_rel_newsroom.jsp?app=News...
James
First story
Supermarket gets scammed - old school way.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/supermarket_online_scam/
Second Story
Fictional story - what happens if google goes evil!
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fic...
Third Story
More retail social engineering.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/website_fraud_guilty_plea/
The Result!
This month the judging was done by Ian Cook who is the chariman of FIRST (www.first.org) and has headed up the intelligence functions for companies like Merill Lynch, and Barclays.
And the winner is.... Nick with his first story on AT&T's programming language designed to facilitate mass surveillance and correlation of telephone records:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/att-invents-pro.html
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