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Submission + - You NEED bad passwords and should re-use them a lot (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft researchers looking at the question of managing a portfolio of passwords conclude
“Far from being unallowable, password re-use is a necessary and sensible tool in managing a portfolio” and “not only are weak passwords understandable and allowable, but their absence would be sub-optimal.”

They suggest accounts should share passwords and should be grouped by value. Groups with very low value “should be very exposed and should have weak passwords” since “even tiny invested effort [] would be wasteful.”

Original report [pdf]: http://research.microsoft.com/...

Submission + - Nearly 25 years ago, IBM helped save Macintosh (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: Apple and IBM, which just announced partnership to bring iOS and cloud services to enterprises, have helped each other before. IBM played a key role in turning the Macintosh into a successful hardware platform at a point when it — and the company itself — were struggling. Nearly 25 years ago, IBM was a part of an alliance that gave Apple access to PowerPC chips for Macintosh systems that were competitive, if not better performing in some benchmarks, than the processors Intel was producing at the time for Windows PCs. In 1991, Apple was looking for a RISC-based processor to replace the Motorola 68K it had been using in its Macintosh line. "The PCs of the era were definitely outperforming the Macintoshes that were based on the 68K," he said. "Apple was definitely behind the power, performance curve," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. The PowerPC processor that emerged from that earlier pairing changed that. PowerPC processors were used in Macintoshes for more than a decade, until 2006, when Apple switched to Intel chips.

Submission + - Selectively re-using bad passwords is not a bad idea, researchers say

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For all the repeated advice to use different, complex password for each online account, users are still opting for easy-to-guess, short ones and use them repeatedly across many websites and online services. Unfortunately, it seems that security professionals must make peace with the situation, or find another way to make users listen and do as they are counselled. But is the experts' advice sound? A trio of researchers from Microsoft Researcher and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada are of a different mind, and are challenging that long-held belief that every account needs a strong password.

Submission + - The startling mortality of JP Morgan IT workers

Submitted by Presto Vivace
Presto Vivace writes: Three New JPMorgan IT Deaths Include Alleged Murder-Suicide

Since December of last year, JPMorgan Chase has been experiencing tragic, sudden deaths of workers on a scale which sets it alarmingly apart from other Wall Street mega banks. Adding to the concern generated by the deaths is the recent revelation that JPMorgan has an estimated $180 billion of life insurance in force on its current and former workers.

This year JP Morgan has lost its Executive Director at the Global Network Operations Center of JPMorgan in Whippany, NJ to an alledged murder-suicide. They have also lost a VP who fell from the roof of JP Morgan's London office, at 34 year old IT worker in Pearland, Texas who died of a heart attack, a 49, year old worker who was an Application Development Team Lead in the Tampa office, cause of death still under investigation,a 42 year old Managing Director of Global Infrastructure Engineering who died of heart disease, a 37 year old Executive Director who died of ethanol toxicity/accident, a worker in Hong Kong fell from the roof of the JP Morgan office, and a 28 year old analyst fell from the roof top of his apartment building,

Comment Re:article summary didn't really summarize... (Score 1) 52

by Presto Vivace (#47462171) Attached to: Telcos Move Net Neutrality Fight To Congress
The abovie summary conflates the FCC process with Congress. The ammendment to HR 5016 would have cut funding to the FCC, with an eye to making it impossible to enforce regulations. It seems the amendment was defeated. Late the morning Save the Internet and similar groups sent out email alerts, and that seems to have done the trick, at least for this vote. We need the FCC to reclassify ISP's as common carriers and Congress to refrain from obstructing the FCC.

Submission + - Telcos move net neutrality to fight to congress

Submitted by Presto Vivace
Presto Vivace writes: Public Knowledge Warns of Net Neutrality-Targeted Amendment

Public Knowledge is rallying its supporters after learning that some House members plan to try and add an amendment to H.R. 5016, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act to block funding of FCC network neutrality rules. H.R. 5016 is the bill that keeps funding the government and whose failure to pass can shut it down. The White House has already said it opposed the existing FCC budget cuts and threatened a veto of a bill it says politicized the budget process.

Public Knowledge is asking citizens to tell congress to stop meddling with net neutrality. In a way this is a good sign. It is an indication that the telcos think that they will lose at the FCC.

Submission + - Stop DRIP: What The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill Actually Means

Submitted by concertina226
concertina226 writes: David Cameron has decided to rush through new emergency legislation known as the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP) into law this week, saying that there is an urgent need for better legislation since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturned the EU Data Retention Directive in April.

Some of the changes from the 2009 Data Retention Regulations potentially give the UK government more powers for monitoring our data, from allowing the UK government to give warrants to non-UK companies to issuing warrants to forum owners, online storage services like Dropbox and webmail providers.

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