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Microsoft’s dual-screen booklet shows ‘face’ on web
Redmond concept artists outdo themselves More delicious rumor scraps about Microsoft’s not-yet-announced Courier tablet/e-book/ Girl Tech Password Journal have been leaked to the web.…
Continue reading »HowTo Remember Authentication Mounted Drive in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
The new policykit in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic doesn’t have a GUI for remembering settings like authentication password to mount a drive/partition. Even without a GUI you can change policies fairly easy by going to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and editing the right XML file with your favorite editor.
Continue reading »Payroll Site Hacked, Employment Numbers Swell
A payroll processing firm that was breached by hackers last month is warning customers about a new breach, after some clients noticed phantom employees popping up on their payrolls. New Jersey-based PayChoice sent a message to customers Thursday indicating that thieves appeared to have stolen customer login IDs and passwords by exploiting a vulnerability in the website feature for changing a password, WashingtonPost.com reports. PayChoice said it disabled the change password feature until it could fix the vulnerability.
Continue reading »Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn’t Compute
A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he’s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to “tens of thousands” of analysts without the need-to-know. “I think on one of the blogs, somebody said, how about this: I give you my username and password, you log into my account, and then I file criminal charges against you,” said Brian Keith Montgomery, in a telephone interview with Threat Level on Thursday. “That person hit it right on the head.” Montgomery held a top secret clearance while working on a covert program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — the spy agency in charge of satellite and aerial image collection.
Continue reading »Court: Disloyal Computing Is Not Illegal
A federal appeals court says employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers’ computers for disloyal purposes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workers authorized to access company computers do not lose or exceed that access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act even if their intent was to acquire data to open a competing business (.pdf).
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