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Attacks like this aren’t uncommon. HCS has suffered a handful over the past year, the web server for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department has been similarly attacked, and the people.fas server, which holds student home pages, is at the very least vulnerable, if anyone is running poorly written code on it (and, surely, someone is). To be fair, these attacks aren’t terribly dangerous—barring deeper security problems, they can’t really do much more damage than messing up a few web sites, and clever configuration can even...
...unapologetic, perfectly reasonable. Unknown Core was, he asserted, helping HCS: they had found a vulnerability in our server and had pointed it out to us while doing only a very small amount of easily repairable damage. Wasn’t this better, he asked, than had some other more malicious hacker come along and tried to use the security breach to more nefarious ends? He wasn’t interested in my suggestion that he might have emailed us instead. He didn’t seem bothered by my claim he was just pointing out holes in Swiss Cheese anyway...
...Harvard Computer Society (HCS) will cast off a long-standing restriction prohibiting student groups not officially recognized by the University from creating and using HCS accounts and mailing lists, the group announced Sunday night over its e-mail list...
...anyone can create a mailing list,” HCS President Gregory N. Price ’06 said. “There’s a form on the [HCS website], and if you go to that form and fill it out, in five seconds you have a mailing list,” he said...
HCS—whose website is www.hcs.harvard.edu—will also provide an e-mail address and webspace to groups who request HCS accounts, regardless of their status with the University...