Terry Childs, the former network admin for San Francisco, was sentenced on Friday to 4 years in prison. A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city's network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. Terry Childs was convicted in April of violating California's hacking laws after he refused to hand over … [Read more...]
HP CEO Mark Hurd Forced to Resign, or Keep It In Your Pants At the C-Level
HP's Chairman, CEO, and President Mark Hurd tendered his resignation today according to a news release on the HP site. Hurd’s decision was made following an investigation by outside legal counsel and the General Counsel’s Office, overseen by the Board, of the facts and circumstances surrounding a claim of sexual harassment against Hurd and HP by a former contractor to HP. … [Read more...]
Implementing WordPress 3.0 Multisite Functionality
One of the most publicized new features of WordPress 3.0 was the merging of WordPress MU back into the main WordPress development thread. The MU features are expanded upon and are now referred to as 'Multisite'. It makes it possible to host multiple WordPress sites with only one WordPress installation to administer. This sounds great for anybody that might be running multiple … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Out-Of-Band Update Coming Week of August 16th
Yesterday a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in Adobe Reader that allows malicious code to be executed.[1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04/critical_adobe_reader_vuln/ ] The vulnerability has been confirmed by Adobe's senior director of product security and privacy. "Key to the decision is determining whether there are enough details available from Miller's … [Read more...]
Anthologize – A Promising WordPress Plugin That Turns Your Blog Into a Book
More than one WordPress-powered blog has made the leap into book format and many more are hoping to follow suit. A WordPress plugin under development just made the platform the perfect place to start if you're an aspiring author. Anthologize is under development at the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University currently at version 0.3-alpha and it already … [Read more...]