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...Montejo ’10 anxiously eyed his computer screen, preparing for the worst. Having applied to UCLA last year, Montejo worried that he might receive an e-mail notifying him that he was one of the 800,000 students whose personal information might have been accessed by a hacker who penetrated UCLA’s applicant database over the past year. After a tense interlude, Montejo relaxed. “Apparently, I’m safe,” he said. He was one of the lucky ones. Bearing the subject line, “UCLA Warns of Unauthorized...
University letters to students and alumni are usually cheerful. But the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) [ucla.org] is now composing 800,000 embarrassing ones. The university announced Tuesday that it's notifying nearly a million members of its community - including students, faculty and alumni - that a hacker gained access to their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information. UCLA computer security technicians noticed a suspicious number of database queries on Nov. 21, and after a quick investigation, discovered that a hacker had accessed records fraudulently all the way back to October...
...into allowing them access to sensitive data. A one-off engagement costs anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000. There are dozens of outfits around the country engaged in some form of social-engineering work, from Atlanta-based Vigilar to Mitnick Security Consulting (principal Kevin Mitnick is an ex-hacker and author of The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security). Many, however, offer testing only over the telephone...
...boasts the ability to crack any system convince clients that it's safe to hire that firm? Stickley says the company's 50 employees have extensive background checks, supplied to clients if requested. Typically, employees are drawn from lines of work such as corporate security and computer engineering. But hackers need not apply. "We don't hire anyone who we believe was a former hacker," Stickley says. "Someone who can program and do network administration, you can teach them to hack. It's just too dangerous to put a hacker in a bank." Says Ferguson: "I think we were more...
...report submitted to the council by City Manager Robert W. Healy in response to an Oct. 16 formal inquiry by the council, Karen Hacker, interim chief public health officer at the city’s Department of Public Health, encouraged the council to institute policies to curb the use of trans fats in Cambridge but discouraged a legislative...