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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert McMillan writes on CIO.com : In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another. The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has made public close to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's virtual private network. The passwords were...
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Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Proving rule #1 , it's IT Blogwatch: in which fugitive stock-kiting spammer Eddie Davidson kills his family and turns the gun on himself. Not to mention awesome ways to recycle a dumpster... Robert McMillan reports: read more
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Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The sky is falling on IT Blogwatch: in which the theoretical DNS vulnerability of two weeks ago is now not-so-theoretical any more. Not to mention the pipetting system boyband (huh?)... Robert McMillan realizes our worst fears: read more
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Robert McMillan writes on PC World : One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon. Several hackers are almost certainly already developing attack code for the bug, and it will most likely crop up within the next few days, said Dave...
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Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
+11 VoteWhatever money the city of San Francisco saved by setting up a wide area network (called Fibre WAN) over three years ago just may have to be used to pay for repairing it. It's not that the network failed to function, but rather it has been tampered with.I read Robert McMillan's article at pcworld.com and learned that the accused culprit in the tampering is a disgruntled network...
