Security, authentication, authorization

There is speculation that a well-organized series of cyberattacks on sensitive U.S. government and government contractor sites may be organized by the Chinese army.

This article talks about the growing security problem but offers little firm evidence that the Chinese military is behind it. But given that China is a military dictatorship with rigid control over the country's Internet, it could be plausible.

Researchers at Clarkson University have found it is trivially easy to spoof some of the current biometric security systems that use a finger or thumb print as an identification mechanism. They found that making a mold of a fingerprint using modeling clay (e.g. Play Doh) was effective 90% of the time in fooling the hardware.