Saturday, February 16, 2013

Any reason why they trusted this site? Perhaps they should have taken some simple (and reasonable) precautions.
Facebook says it was hacked, claims member data safe
Facebook today admitted that its systems were hacked last month when staffers unknowingly installed malware to laptops. The social network called the attack sophisticated, but claimed that no user data was compromised.
"This attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised," Facebook said in a statement posted today on its security blog. "The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these employee laptops."


If you look up the role of Mangement, you will find that managers: plan, organize, staff, direct, and control. If you find a government boodogle like this, you will also find that they failed to plan, organize, staff, direct, or control.
"According to the LA Times, 'California's computer problems, which have already cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, have mounted as state officials cut short work on a $208-million DMV technology overhaul that is only half done. The state has spent $135 million total on the overhaul so far. The state's contractor, HP Enterprise Services, has received nearly $50 million of the money spent on the project. Botello said the company will not receive the remaining $26 million in its contract. ... Last week, the controller's office fired the contractor responsible for a $371-million upgrade to the state's payroll system, citing a trial run filled with mishaps. More than $254 million has already been spent.' It's hard not to feel like the Tokyo man in the street watching the latest round of Godzilla the state vs. Rodan the big contractor."


The Feds may see this as a proper interpretation of the law, but I wonder what a jury would think? Nothing new, but a brief recap for my students.
Feds Say Megaupload Entrapment Claim Is ‘Sensationalist Rhetoric’
Calling it “sensationalist rhetoric,” federal authorities took the offensive late Thursday for the second time in as many months to blast Megaupload for its contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service.
… Megaupload essentially contends that, at a minimum, federal authorities punished Megaupload for cooperating with the prosecution of rival file-sharing site NinjaVideo. At a maximum, Megaupload contends federal officials set up Megaupload for its downfall.
The controversy centers on Megaupload complying with a then-secret U.S. search warrant targeting five of its users, who were running their own file-sharing service using Megaupload’s infrastructure. Eighteen months before Megaupload was indicted in January 2012, Megaupload complied with the warrant and turned over a database on the 39 pirated movies detailed in the warrant that linked the files to the file-sharing service NinjaVideo, which was later indicted.
Though the feds had already begun quietly investigating Megaupload months before, in this case the government treated Megaupload as NinjaVideo’s internet service provider, and asked it to keep the NinjaVideo warrant quiet.
Despite Megaupload’s cooperation, the 39 infringing NinjaVideo files were later used against the popular file-sharing service (.pdf) as evidence to seize Megaupload.com domains and prosecute Dotcom and others connected to the site. That’s because Megaupload did not delete the 39 movies from its servers. The government used that fact to demonstrate that the company knew full well that its service was being used for piracy.


Dang! I've been scooped. Now I have to start my study of porn over from the beginning...
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For my Website students. Always steal from the best!
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