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...compliance and IT assessments, but the part that Stickley loves best is what he calls a "social-engineering engagement." That's a polite term for a break-in. TraceSecurity engineers infiltrate a target organization posing as pest controllers, fire officials, OSHA inspectors and even foreign diplomats; once in, they trick employees 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Hackers For Hire | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...this film. Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies. Doubtless there will come a day when he joins them in the Valhalla of the vacuous. One or two more Apocalyptos ought to do the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maya Are Us | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...whole virology field fascinates me. These are really tiny things with very tiny genomes and they trick so many organisms and species into not knowing how to fight them,” she says...

Author: By Kelly Y. Gu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: D’Souza Takes New Approach to Fighting AIDS | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...human level, though, how about the USC Trojans? Descendants remain of ancient Ilium, sacked by the Greeks many moons ago (dirty trick that horse was, huh?), and old King Priam. Have they been consulted about the school’s mascot Traveler, a white horse with an armored warrior astride? That militaristic imagery certainly depicts residents of Troy in a potentially hurtful...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Sense In Anti-Mascot Crusade | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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