A s we discussed in the last issue (“Introducing Insecure IT”), software developers are begin­ ning to make some headway in reducing IT system vulnerabili­ ties. But just as there will never be impenetrable armor, there will never be invulnerable software. In the battle between attackers and defenders, developers still make mistakes, and adversaries invent new ways to defeat the best safe­ guar...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the attachment style of bipolar patients and their children, and to investigate the relationship between attachment style, and temperament, personality characteristics, and clinical features of bipolar disorder. METHOD The study included 44 euthymic bipolar patients, 35 of their healthy children (>16 years old), and 84 healthy controls (matched in terms ...

Health anxiety involves persistent worry about one’s health and beliefs one has an illness or may contract a disease. The interpersonal model of health anxiety (Noyes et al., 2003) is a conceptual framework linking insecure attachment to health anxiety. The present study, clarified the contribution of insecure attachment to health anxiety by studying two key dimensions of insecure attachment: a...

BACKGROUND Low incomes may not provide the minimum requirements for healthy living. We evaluated experiences of food insecurity in relation to income in inner London. METHODS Subjects attending 10 general medical practices completed a short self-administered questionnaire, including the short form Household Food Security Scale and a short food frequency questionnaire. RESULTS Responses were...

A recently proposed group key distribution scheme known as UMKESS, based on secret sharing, is shown to be insecure. Not only it insecure, but does not always work, and the rationale for its design unsound. UMKESS latest in a long line of flawed schemes sharing techniques.

We show that if the private exponent d used in the RSA public-key cryptosystem is less than N then the system is insecure. This is the first improvement over an old result of Wiener showing that when d < N the RSA system is insecure. We hope our approach can be used to eventually improve the bound to d < N.

OBJECTIVE To explore heart rate (HR) correlates of attachment behavior in young mothers and their infants to generate specific hypotheses and to provide pilot data on which studies to test those hypotheses might be based. METHOD Using the strange situation procedure, patterns of attachment were assessed in 41 low-income adolescent mothers and their infants. During the procedure, the HRs of th...

INTRODUCTION Food insecurity is negatively associated with health; however, health needs may differ among people participating in food assistance programs. Our objectives were to characterize differences in health among people receiving different types of food assistance and summarize strategies for targeted recruitment and outreach of various food insecure populations. METHODS We examined he...

BACKGROUND A critical shortage of affordable housing for low-income families continues in the United States. Children in households that are food insecure are at high risk for adverse nutritional and health outcomes and thus may be more vulnerable to the economic pressures exerted by high housing costs. Only about one fourth of eligible families receive a federally financed housing subsidy. Few...