Looks like the University of California has had another database breach, this time impacting nearly 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff. Interestingly, it appears to the investigators that the Social Security Number (SSN) and other Personal Identity Information (PII) was specifically targeted in the breach.
CNN has an article on their site: “Hacker [...]
Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off on mission STS-121 this morning. The launch was broadcast live in High Definition on HDNet, and the video was awesome!
I’ve got to get out to Florida to see one of these in person before they stop flying them!
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It’s turning out to be more like a “day without a central or south-americanâ€? . . .
At lunch I saw a caravan of 4 small import cars blaring their horns and driving around downtown Oakland with American, Mexican and Nicaraguan flags flying . . . the unfortunate part was that the largest of the flags [...]
Following up on my previous post about the Bush administration using child pornography as a reason to force ISPs to store records regarding all of your web access, a post over at Identity Woman got me thinking . . .
Maybe we should have a “day without a computer admin”; we could all shut down our [...]
An administrative law judge in New York has recently ruled against the City of New York in a lawsuit filed by an employee terminated for surfing the Internet on city time. The judge ruled that “surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone” and has suggested that “only [...]
Proving that the combination of pen and checkbook is mightier than the sword, RSA Security announced the acquisition of PassMark Security for approximately $45 million dollars (far less than RSA’s acquisition price for Cyota).
The acquisition will bring together the top two multi-factor and risk-based authentication vendors serving the financial services space. While both RSA/Cyota [...]
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