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Like all Berkman Center offerings, Ogletree's seminar is free. The first three hundred people who sign up at the course's Web site, cyber.harvard.edu/jurytrial, will receive a password that will grant access to on-line discussion boards...
...still deal with customers by their names on-line," she says. "We don't ask them, 'What's your password...
...still deal with customers by their names on-line," she says. "We don't ask them, 'What's your password...
...real world? "Rarely is there a moment when a hacker isn't trying to get into our networks," says a senior Microsoft executive. "People go looking for that weak link." Recently hackers found a backdoor through a user in Europe--an administrator, no less--with a blank password. This allowed the hacker root access--the ability to change everyone else's password, jump onto other systems and mess up the payroll file...
Over the next few days, any faith I had in the security of the world around me crumbles. Think your password is safe because it isn't "password"? If it's in the dictionary, there is software that will solve it within minutes. If it's a complex combination of letters and numbers, that may take an hour or so. There is software that will hijack your desktop and cursor--and you won't even know about it. Hacking doesn't require much hardware; even a Palm Pilot can do it. What protection do you have? "Minimize enticements...