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Submission + - Electronic Arts CEO Replaced

Submitted by nespooh on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:36AM

nespooh writes: The CEO of Electronic Arts (Larry Probst) has been replaced.
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1304231660056979 887624850666510914871032

Submission + - Citibank: training users to be less secure

Submitted by Llamedos on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:29AM

Llamedos writes: Citibank has redesigned their credit card website (Citicards.com) so that the login page is not an SSL encrypted page. Instead, they expect users to simply accept a little lock GIF file they put up themselves, and their assurance that the form is submitted via SSL. According to Citibank, "Your security is important to us. While the new Citicards.com has an "http" address and no lock icon displays in your browser, your personal information is still protected." Citibank's security page While other sites are moving to more security and more ways for the user to protect himself (e.g., Bank of America's SiteKey program), Citibank is tearing away at protections and trying to train users not to care about security.

Submission + - Who's number is on my caller ID? Who Called Us

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: I got a few calls today from a number I didn't recognize. They didn't leave a voice mail so I assumed it was a telemarketer. I decided to see what Google thought about the number and the first link that came up was: http://whocalled.us/lookup/3123279690. This link includes the phone number I was searching for. Pretty cool way for us to work together to ID the telemarketers.

IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability 207

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:51AM from the upload-with-daring-and-whimsy dept.

hcmtnbiker writes with news of a logic flaw shared by IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. IE 5.01, IE 6, and Firefox 1.5.0.9 are also affected. The flaw was discovered by Michal Zalewski, and is easily demonstrated on IE7 and Firefox. The vulnerability is not platform-specific, but these demonstrations are — they work only on Windows systems. (Microsoft says that IE7 on Vista is not vulnerable.) From the vulnerability description: "In all modern browsers, form fields (used to upload user-specified files to a remote server) enjoy some added protection meant to prevent scripts from arbitrarily choosing local files to be sent, and automatically submitting the form without user knowledge. For example, '.value' parameter cannot be set or changed, and any changes to .type reset the contents of the field... [in this attack] the keyboard input in unrelated locations can be selectively geared toward input fields by the attacker."

Submission + - Networking Strategic Planning

Submitted by NorCalRon on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:01AM

NorCalRon writes: I work for the State of California in Information Technology. I am working on a committee that is defining the strategic plan for networking. This committee is comprised of people that had a good deal of technical expertise at one time, but our skills have morphed to the "business" side of the house, away from more active technical roles.

The committee is doing a pretty good job addressing the future based upon our technical understanding and experiences, but I am haunted that a bunch of bureaucrats (like myself) may be missing something important. We have already asked similar questions of our technical workforce, as well as some highly (over) paid consultants.

Here is an opportunity to possibly change the way the State of California does its business, especially in the area's of networking, voice, convergence, and security by suggesting ideas that we should be investigating as part of this process.

Any and all ideas welcome, even the inevitable flames. All will be helpful, or at least humorous.

Submission + - Verizon wins injunction against TXT spammer

Submitted by

bulled

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @12:08AM

bulled writes: "cnet.com is running a story about a suit Verizon Wireless recently won against a company that was delivering spam text messages. Specialized Programming and Marketing and Henderson was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in damages to Verizon Wireless."

Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked 205

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @12:03AM from the mock-theta-soup dept.

Jake's Mom sends word of the serendipitous solution to a decades-old mathematical mystery. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have unraveled a major number theory puzzle left at the death of one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan. From the press release: "Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the 'mock theta functions.' Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since... Ramanujan first alluded to them in a letter written [to G. H. Hardy] on his deathbed, in 1920. Now, using mathematical techniques that emerged well after Ramanujan's death, two number theorists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pieced together an explanatory framework that for the first time illustrates what mock theta functions are, and exactly how to derive them."

Journal Journal: Get rid of hardcopy résumés and portfolios?

Journal by tcwd on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:57PM

The beta version of pfEagle has been recently released. The description on the front page states that "pfEagle is a premade portfolio/résumé script that you can use by registering for free. Using pfEagle, you can quickly make a website displaying your abilities and experiences and show them to a client or company." For most programmers and designers out there, a portfolio can easily be made by themselves. However, could this project or a project sim

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