Sysadmin stole co-worker IDs for Amazon survey splurge
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41 Written by External Post Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41
A California IT worker has been jailed for a year for stealing confidential data to make money by completing online health surveys. Cam Giang [1], 31, a former worker at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, used the names,
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DC Internet Voting Trial Attacked 2 Different Ways
Last Updated on Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:20
mtrachtenberg writes “University of Michigan Professor J Alex Halderman and his team actually had two completely separate successful attacks on Washington, DC’s internet voting experiment. The second path in was revealed by Halderman during testimony
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Do online friends influence drinking habits?
Last Updated on Friday, 9 April 2010 11:20 Written by External Post Friday, 9 April 2010 11:20
A Harvard University researcher who analyzed data from the –tracking various habits of 12,067 people for 32 years–concludes that a person’s social network in determining one’s level of alcohol consumption. (The study appears this week .) “We’ve found
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Chinese schools deny links to Google hack attacks
Last Updated on Monday, 22 February 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Monday, 22 February 2010 11:00
A university and vocational school dispute a New York Times report that hacks on Google and other firms can be traced back to their computers
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Probe Traces Google Hack to Chinese Schools
Last Updated on Friday, 19 February 2010 09:45 Written by External Post Friday, 19 February 2010 09:45
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Recent cyber attacks on Google and other American corporations have been traced to a top Chinese university as well as a school with ties to the Chinese military, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people involved in the
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Pittsburgh, Seattle Announce Interest In Google’s Fiber Trial
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 February 2010 01:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 14 February 2010 01:00
An anonymous reader contributes a link to a press release from the mayor of Pittsburgh that says the city has announced, along with Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the University of Pittsburgh, that it intends to
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Sorry, Facebook friends: Our brains can’t keep up
Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 07:15 Written by External Post Monday, 25 January 2010 07:15
Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, developed a theory in the 1990s dubbed Dunbar’s Number. The theory contends that the human brain is only capable of managing relationships–staying in contact at least once per
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