Word: hackers
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...with more self-direction and more funding than his high school. Surrounded by inspiring, like-minded people and given numerous resources, Ur blossomed creatively. He started designing sets himself rather than following directions from others.“I’ve always been kind of the closet computer hacker, engineer wannabe,” he says. “Being here really encouraged me to get more involved in the artistic side.”“Rather than like, ‘Hey let me see what someone else wants me to build...
...Still, it's amazing how many coaches just won't buy it. Another anti-hacker is Bucknell coach Pat Flannery, whose teams upset Kansas and Arkansas, respectively, in the '05 and '06 tournaments. He trains his defense to trap the good shooters, and doesn't want to risk a bad bounce on the second foul shot. "You've worked your tail off for over 39 minutes, and to foul at that point, for some people it's a great strategy, but for me, I'm too much of a Republican," he says. Meaning conservative, I assume? "Absolutely. Maybe there...
...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...
...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...