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… Read More »Paris Hilton & You
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’ –… Read More »T-Mobile Hack Used Known Hole
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… Read More »Microsoft and Cisco aiming to bring more girls to IT
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… Read More »Password Complexity
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… Read More »Rational RFID reporting
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… Read More »Sysinternals releases free rootkit detector
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… Read More »Paris Hilton Sidekick hack:breach, blunder or brilliant marketing?
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… Read More »Why are cell carriers so afraid of data via bluetooth?
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… Read More »Excellent Phone Tech Support Bulletin Board
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’… Read More »Music – open source and/or free