PC World - With the help of about 200 Sony PlayStations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly undetectable phishing attack.
CNET - Updated at 3:30 p.m. PST with Microsoft comment, at 1:50 p.m. PST with VeriSign comment, at 10 a.m. PST with comment from cryptography expert Paul Kocher, and at 9 a.m. PST to reflect that presentation has taken place and include comment from cryptography expert Bruce Schneier.
PC Magazine - FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is reportedly dropping plans for free, national broadband service whose only restriction would be that pornography would be forbidden.