Saturday, January 13, 2001

Sex-offender Web sites are insecure Nine state online sex-offender registries have had inadequate computer security and easily could have been hacked, an MSNBC.com investigation has found. And in two states, more general criminal records databases also were found to be insecure. The flaws put Web site data at risk and raised the possibility that a computer intruder could add or remove people from the online versions of the databases. http://www.msnbc.com/news/514284.asp [Monty Solomon via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 22] 0:00 # G!