dark reading

No, this is not when you pull up in a corner with a good book and you get so into it, it doesn't matter that the sun has set and the room is darker than when you started making it hard to read the words on the page.

No, this is dark and scary stuff. Good food for conspiracy theorists but with a dose of reality, as in, this stuff is happening around the corner.

Recent updates:

Trojan Attacks Multimedia Files Stored on Hard Drives JULY 10, 2008 | Infected audio and video files show no signs of malware, but are lethal when shared with other users

Congress Opens Debate on Behavioral Advertising JULY 9, 2008 | Businesses say tracking users' online behavior is a benefit; privacy advocates say it's a threat

FasTrak Toll Hacked, Exposing Privacy Dangers JULY 9, 2008 | Researcher finds electronic toll tag vulnerabilities in Black Hat 'Highway to Hell' research

iDefense Revamps Bucks for Bugs Contest JULY 8, 2008 | Changes aimed at making vulnerability research 'sexy' again, iDefense says

Vendors Issue Massive Simultaneous Patch for Common Internet Flaw JULY 8, 2008 | Design flaw in DNS protocols could have been used to redirect traffic across the Internet

That should provide some taste of the dark reading available in the IT security world.