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Submission + - Hidden Backdoor Discovered on HP MSA2000 Arrays (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: A hardcoded password-related security vulnerability has been discovered which apparently affects every HP MSA2000 G3, a modular large scale storage array. According to the alert, a hidden user exists that doesn’t show up in the user manager, and the password cannot be changed, creating a perfect “backdoor” opportunity for an attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information stored on the device, as well as systems it is connected to.
The Internet

Submission + - 4-Chan user Anon takes down PayPal.com (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: PayPal has been under attack ever since they stop taking payments for Wikileaks donations. This time a 4-Chan user called Anon has actually succeeded in taking the site down. As of right now they PayPal site is not responding. MasterCard and Visa have also been under DOS attacks all day as well. The user Anon had been blocked on Twitter.com and Facebook earlier today which he then proceeded to attack Twitter. Twitter never went down in the attack.

Submission + - Developing Robots for the Hospital Emergency Room

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Are you ready for robots in the ER? A group of computer engineers at Vanderbilt University is convinced that the basic technology is now available to create robot assistants that can perform effectively in the often-chaotic environment of the emergency room. The specialists in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are enthusiastic about the potential advantages. So, the two groups have formed an interdisciplinary team to explore the use of robotics in this critical and challenging setting.
Google

Submission + - Yale Switching to Gmail, Not Without Opposition (yaledailynews.com) 2

Submitted by PwnSnake
PwnSnake writes: While it makes sense for small (and large) corporations to move to Gmail, something seems amiss when a top private university decides to hand everything over to Google. Although most on campus seem to welcome the change, several organizations on campus have joined forces to call for a transparent process and get students and faculty thinking about the downsides of the switch. The problem is choice (users can already forward mail to Gmail; it doesn't make sense to force that option and not have a backup or opt-out mail server).
Businesses

Submission + - Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over?

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Pete Carey writes in the Mercury News that there are "clear warning signs" that Silicon Valley has entered "a new phase of uncertainty" in which its standing as a tech center is at risk and that decisive action by business, government and education is needed if the region is to retain its standing as the world's center of technical innovation. "It could be that Silicon Valley has a different future coming," says Russell Hancock. "It's not a given that we will continue to be the epicenter of innovation." Among the troubling indicators in the Silicon Valley Index (PDF): 90,000 jobs lost in the last two years; the influx of foreign science and engineering talent has slowed; venture capital funding has declined; per capita income is down 5 percent from 2007; and the number of people working as contractors rather than full-time employees is rising. Adding to the valley's problems is a malfunctioning state government that is shortchanging investment in education and infrastructure. "Who wants to come here to a state with a $20 billion annual deficit?" says Emmett Carson. There are plenty of candidates to take the valley's place as innovation capital: Austin, Texas, and Huntsville, Alabama, are beating the valley in snagging federal funds and India or China could someday wrest the title away from the valley. "We're sort of sitting on our laurels and singing 'We're Silicon Valley,' " adds Carson. "We've got to have a call to action, to bring together our political, business and educational leadership, and in a comprehensive way, or we are at risk,""

Comment Re:oh good lord (Score 1) 283

by cohensh (#31121956) Attached to: Emmerich Plans <em>Foundation</em> As a 3D Epic

Just about every scene in the first three Foundation books is people talking, and that's all it is, and more to the point, that's precisely why it's amazingly good.

I totally agree that Foundation is good for this reason, as well as some of my favorite movies are good for this reason. I always say my favorite movies are the ones where nothing's happening but everyone's talking. However, I feel like I'm in the minority and a true interpretation of Foundation would be boring to the masses. After all, movies are made for the profit not the story.
Google

Submission + - Google Tweaks Buzz toTackle Privacy Concerns (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Just two days after launching its Buzz social networking tools, Google said Thursday night that it had tweaked the technology to address early privacy concerns. Google said in a blog post that the quick updates makes it easier for users to block access to their pages and eases the path to finding two privacy features. 'We've had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback,' wrote Todd Jackson, a product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, in the blog post. 'In particular there's been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn't yet have public profiles from following them.'
Google

Submission + - Tarpley on Google / CIA / NSA ties

Submitted by byrdfl3w
byrdfl3w writes: Webster Tarpley, well known author, historian, journalist, lecturer and outspoken critic of US foreign and domestic policy spoke on Russia Today last week where he put forth the proposal that a CIA proprietary non-profit company called In-Q-Tel invested in leading IT companies (including at one time Google), in order to maintain U.S effectiveness in cyber-security. He continued on to allege that "Project Keyhole", a once secret CIA program designed to photograph the entire world, was sold to Google with the assistance of a few million dollars from In-Q-Tel and is now what we all know as Google Earth. Interestingly, a visit to the Project Keyhole website redirects to the Google Earth site.
Data Storage

Submission + - SSD Fixes Data Center Bottlenecks -- At a Price (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Yes, solid-state storage is still expensive, but for speed-hungry applications, the performance boost can be too great to ignore, reports Tam Harbert. Gartner analyst Joe Unsworth puts the average cost of SSDs at about 10 times that of hard disk drives. But cost-per-gigabyte is not the most important factor in some of these access-heavy data center applications. Rather, it's cost per IOPS (input/output operations per second). The average enterprise-class, 15,000-rpm hard drive achieves 350 to 400 IOPS, says Scott Stetzer, director of enterprise SSD products at STEC Inc., an SSD vendor. The average enterprise-class SSD can push 80,000 IOPS. "It's a world of difference in the level of performance."
Apple

Submission + - The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Apple's reticence on revealing details prior to a product's launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a product's unveiling, more often than not, the product cannot deliver the functionality that has been asked about. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman lists eight key questions for the iPad, all of which Apple has kept silent about. Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management? 'I have no doubt the iPad will be compelling to some users. But I now have major concerns that it will fulfill the potential beyond being an iTunes delivery screen that I and other industry observers saw,' Gruman writes."

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