by Joseph Forbes | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
Information advantage has always equaled power. The group in society that can control what the other groups know and don’t know will rise to power in every other aspect. Therefore, information technology has always been policed and even militarized to some extent, by...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Malware Reports, SECURITY
Recently, a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422) was disclosed. Oracle promptly reacted on this 0-day vulnerability, and last weekend a new patch was made available. Here’s the advisory from Oracle. You can download latest JRE here. As the vulnerability is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
NewScientist reports, ‘Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.’ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | NERD NEWS
In what appears to be a more-and-more common occurrence, Ahmed Al-Khabez has been expelled from Dawson College in Montreal after he discovered a flaw in the software that the college (and apparently all other colleges across Quebec) uses to track student information....
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 20, 2013 | NERD NEWS
The Department of Health and Human Services has released newly revised rules for the Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to ensure patient access to electronic copies of their electronic medical records. Several years ago, there was a great deal...
