Apple Snow Leopard Flaw Devours User Data A serious flaw in Apple's Snow Leopard OS appears capable of wiping user data after the user opens and closes the "guest" account on the afflicted Macintosh. UC Berkeley tightens personal data security with data-masking tool To better safeguard the personal data of its students, the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has adopted a specialized data-masking technique in its application development work that effectively can hide data in plain sight by mixing it up. Data-theft trojans and the changing face of the Web In 2004, Russell Beale of the University of Birmingham penned an interesting article discussing the social changes taking place on the Web. In his summation, Professor Beale noted, "We have split the Web atom previously atomic units were Web pages once you'd got them you could analyze them into text and graphics, but you generally dealt in whole pages. Now our atomic unit is much smaller we can construct things out of fragments of pages. And this makes a second difference consumers can look only at what they want." Expert provides more proof hackers hijacked Hotmail accounts It's almost certain that hackers obtained the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Internet through a botnet-based attack, a researcher said today as she provided more proof that Microsoft's explanation was probably off-base. Stephen Gately death exploited by hackers Hackers have already starting exploiting the death of pop star Stephen Gately just 48 hours after the singer tragically died, says Sophos. Secrecy vs. privacy When Bob Blakley talks, I listen. Blakley is vice president and research director for the Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies. Before that he was chief scientist for security and privacy at IBM. He rarely speaks about identity and security issues without weighing all of the possibilities and coming to a reasoned conclusion. So when he says that an analyst from another organization is "dead wrong" you can bet he'll back it up with an elegant argument. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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