Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach
A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on.
The vast majority of cancer patients participating in studies of experimental drugs do not  care if the doctor running the study has financial ties to the drug's maker, according to a new survey that undermines "full disclosure" as a central tenet of clinical research.