Charles Schwab Corp. admits security hole

Wired is carrying an article about Schwab confirming that last week its market-leading Web brokerage was vulnerable to a common security flaw that allowed a hacker to hijack subscribers' stock trading accounts, but said the risk was small and no user accounts had been accessed. Everyone's "favourite" security consultant John Vranesevich (of antionline fame) is quoted in the write up. Go check out the whole story here.