San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "The office of San Francisco locality patch Kamala Harris has made public close
to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's VPN. The
passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court paper arguing ...
(more)SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's
multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his authoritative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs ...
(more)TJX Fires Employee For Disclosing Vulnerability (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:41:07 PM)
I Don't Believe in Imaginary joint* writes "A TJX employee was fired for an online post source
that TJX hasn't beefed up security after the recent, massive data breach that saw 94 million
credit card numbers copied by criminals and money from their money ...
(more)Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
An incog reader writes "Two months ago I donated my old PC to my little sister, who is 7
— I had abraham's bosom she would get her own mini* as soon as she can read and write
properly. I then proceeded to answer ...
(more)Antivirus Inventor Says Security Pros Are Wasting Time (Thursday 07th of February 2008 06:15:05 PM)
Talkinsecurity writes "Earlier this week Peter Tippett, chief rocket man at the ICSA and the
maker of the progam that became Norton Antivirus, had some interesting things to say about the
state of the security industry. In a nutshell, Tippett warned that ...
(more)Researchers Say Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak Possible (Saturday 05th of January 2008 06:15:02 AM)
Alphadogg writes with a link to a NetworkWorld article about a troubling security scenario.
Indiana teaching mash unit IT researchers are now saying that a WiFi attack intended to
piggyback across unsecured access points could do serious damage in a city ...
(more)Picture Passwords More Secure than Text (Friday 02nd of November 2007 12:00:04 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "People possess a remarkable ability for recalling pictures and researchers
at Newcastle health center are exploiting this characteristic to create graphical passwords
that they say are a thousand times more secure than ordinary textual ...
(more)Convicted VoIP Hacker Robert Moore Speaks (Thursday 27th of September 2007 01:15:06 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "Convicted hacker Robert Moore, who will report to federal prison
this week, gives his version of 'How I Did It' to InformationWeek. burglarizing into 15 telecom
companies and hundreds of corporations was so easy because most ...
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