Frank Hayes has a great article in this week’s ComputerWorld on how the Paris Hilton hack should get IT thinking about the use of state-of-ther art cell phones. Once again, do you really want your sensitive information out of your hands – or better yet, as the article asks: “you don’t realy want to end [...]
Wired reports that the method Nicolas Jacobsen used to gain access to T-Mobile accounts was through a known hole in their WebLogic server – for which BEA had a patch available. This however didn’t make Jacobsen a ‘script kiddie’ – he ended up writing his own custom interface to their customer database. Another good example [...]
It caught my eye that there were two different articles about major IT companies aiming to bring girls into IT this week. eSchool News reports on Cisco’s efforts to make IT, and in particular, their Tech Academy more appealing to girls. One of the interesting points of the article is that research shows girls are [...]
There must be something in the water cooler over at Information Week, because I think this week’s Secret CIO column is right on the money, and I usually disagree with him, or skip the column because it’s just whining about corporate politics. He talks about the commons sense that short password expiration times, combined with [...]
Bob Evans from Information Week has the most sane reporing I’ve read to date on RFID. I’m not sure why most reporters feel the need to create a stir about this technology, but it’s nice to hear a voice of reason. Tweet
I’ve been a big fan of Sysinternals’ freeware offerings for some time. They recently released a rootkit detector that they describe as: “RootkitRevealer is an advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode [...]
There is a lot of discussion going on about the hacking of Paris Hilton’s Sidekick. There seem to be four trains of thought: The bimbo gave out her password or used a weak one. Or was it socially engineered from her? At least, that’s what T-mobile should be praying. This was part of Nicolas Jacobsen’s [...]
So, my 3rd Motorola T720 finally stopped charging, and I decided that even though this phone was free from Cingular, I needed something a little less flaky. I’d really like the ability to have my phone act as a data modem for my PDA (or replace my PDA) and laptop, letting me connect anywhere anytime [...]
I have searched a couple of times over the last few years for a discussion forum or other online help for supporting our Executone phone system. We’ve been doing self-support for about 3 years, and can handle most of the basics no problem. But those weird/rare problems pop up we’re at the mercy of hourly [...]
My household has been rocking down to O-zone’s “Dragostea Din Tei“, and I’ve been thinking “I could have written this with one hand tied behind my back”. No really, I could have – back in college I had a rockin’ band with a lot of gear. But I really couldn’t now, because ever since our [...]