Not much detail yet. Perhaps the hacker will supply more?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070721132742424
Hacker accesses personal information from U-M databases
Saturday, July 21 2007 @ 01:27 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
The University of Michigan has notified 5,500 current and former students that a hacker gained access to personal information on two School of Education databases.
University technology administrators noticed suspicious activity on a server on July 3 and the letters went out July 16.
Kelly Cunningham, a university spokeswoman, said Saturday that the databases contained no financial information, such as credit card numbers, nor did they contain students’ grades. The databases, however, did have names, addresses, some Social Security numbers and some birth dates, and in some cases, the school districts where former students were teaching.
Source - Detroit Free Press
Look, it's simple. You take open source software (VOIP, encryption, peer-to-peer, and a few other freebies,) and you create a system that is indistinguishable from random noise. (Why do you think SETI hasn't found aliens yet?)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070721133207120
AU: VoIP disrupts national security efforts
Saturday, July 21 2007 @ 01:32 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News
Australian VoIP service providers must keep interception channels open for law enforcement following a legislative review which IT Minister Helen Coonan has endorsed. Recognizing the disruptive nature of VoIP technology, the federal government undertook a review late last year to assess whether changes need to be made to the Telecommunications Act to facilitate wiretapping by law enforcement. The review, which is currently before the minister, has recommended keeping VoIP channels open and is in line with similar moves in the US where the government has amended the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to extend regulation to VoIP services.
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However, industry analysts and even vendors argue that opening permanent interception channels for law enforcement inadvertently exposes user privacy to hackers and places too much trust in third-party companies, contracted to relay information to legal bodies.
Source - Computerworld (AU)
Welcome to the US!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902343.html
Virgin America Ticket Sales Thwarted by Cyber Attack
By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 20, 2007; Page D03
Virgin America, a new low-cost carrier scheduled to start service in Washington in the coming months, struggled to sell its first tickets yesterday after its Web site was shut down or slowed to a crawl for most of the afternoon by a cyber attack, a company spokesman said.
"It's pretty clear that it was an absolute attempt to crash our site," said Gareth Edmondson-Jones, adding that he did not know who launched the attack.
That's what I get for believing the news reports.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/21/1212217&from=rss
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 21, @09:00AM from the egg-on-someone's-face dept. Wireless Networking
jpallas writes "Following up to a previous Slashdot story, it now turns out that the widely reported problems with Duke University's wireless network were not caused by Apple's iPhone. The problem was actually with their Cisco network. Duke's Chief Information Officer praises the work of their technical staff. Does that include the assistant director for communications infrastructure who was quoted as saying, "I don't believe it's a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form?""
Technology for politicians Possible business opportunity?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118489524982572543.html
Google Goes to Washington With Own Brand of Lobbying
By Kevin J. Delaney and Amy Schatz
In a conference room overlooking the Washington Monument, about 150 young Democratic operatives-in-training recently munched on animal crackers as Google Inc. executives pitched the Internet company's offerings.
Google's newly hired team leader for political sales, Peter Greenberger, explained how attendees could use online ads and other services from Google to help their candidates win. One Google product could provide details about people who visited a campaign's Web site, such as the approximate area where they lived, Mr. Greenberger explained. "Tremendously valuable info," he said, adding, "It's free. Did I mention it's free? It's free."
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