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"Security B-Sides, a highly successful community-driven event built for and by information security community members, today announced the 2012 event details and speaker lineup for B-Sides San Francisco, being held February 27-28, 2012 at The Children's Creativity Museum from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. PT. The group that started with one event in 2009 has exploded into over 37 conferences across four continents involving over 100 organizers, and thousands of participants...."

"Four-digit banking PINs are almost as insecure as website passwords, according to a study by Cambridge University computer scientists. The first-ever quantitative analysis of the difficulty of guessing four-digit banking PINs estimates the widespread practice of using a date of birth as a PIN code and other factor means that opportunistic thieves will be able to correctly guess a PIN before a card is blocked between 8-9 per cent of the time. The researchers modeled banking PIN selection using a combination of leaked data from non-banking sources (smartphone unlock-codes and the RockYou dataset) and an online survey...."

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"Anonymous has distanced itself from a plot to knock out critical systems in the backbone of the internet. Documents posted on Pastebin and elsewhere warn of a planned attack against the main DNS root servers on 31 March as part of a protest against SOPA and other hated copyright enforcement measures. If successful, the attack would disable the core components of internet's systems for domain name to IP address lookup, hobbling web surfing and email delivery in the process."On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down...."