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Ryan Reiss, a chair of Pforzheimer House Committee, says he is very pleased with his House computer lab. "Our lab is actually really good. It's rarely overcrowded, even during the busy recruiting and thesis periods, and our UAs [user assistants] always come down to help you out if you give one of them a call...
Nearly two months ago, a hacker used the computer of an Eliot House resident to gain access to the user names and passwords of other Eliot House residents...
...Changing your password is one of the most important things you can do to maintain the security of your own FAS e-mail account," Osterberg says. "Each insecure individual account is a weak link in the chain, which may allow a malicious outside user to gain access to our system. By doing what we can to maintain the security of the individual accounts, we increase the overall security of the system as a whole...
...becoming more active in making security bulletining available to the user community through that newsgroup," Osterberg says. "I believe we've seen a large increase in overall awareness of computer security issues, which to me means that our outreach is starting to work. There is more to be done, of course, but we're starting to make progress...
...actual hacking of a Web site is, in actuality, not an extremely complicated process. For the hacker, the only obstacle is getting the password for the root user to the server...