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Comment It's worse than what's reported here.... (Score 1) 18

by e-flat on Saturday January 11, 2025 @06:11PM (#65081559) Attached to: Database Tables of Student, Teacher Info Stolen From PowerSchool In Cyberattack

IT pro in K-12 education here...and former PS customer; we used to use Sungard Pentamantion's eSchoolPlus and eFinancePlus that were purchased by PS a while back. Support was and is still awful from what I read from other districts still using the products. Have migrated from both, but still on mailing lists for things as well as on a state IT Ed Tech mailing list. From what's been reported by affected districts, it was a remote access account credential that was compromised and used against a data exporting application. Stupid on so many levels...why the account uses the same password (presumably, haven't seen independent confirmation of that) for every customer is both lazy and vulnerable....which is why this happened. Affected both their cloud users and users still hosting their own application stacks.

Also from what affected districts have reported, it's not student SSN's compromised, those are not normally stored in SIS dbs. It was staff that were tied into the affected tables.

Intel's 8th-Gen 'Coffee Lake' Core CPUs Will Be Revealed During the Great American Eclipse (pcworld.com) 98

Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:26PM from the competition-heating-up dept.

Brad Chacos, writing for PCWorld: Intel's response to AMD's disruptive Ryzen processors is soon to get its time in the sun. Well, sort of. On Tuesday, Intel announced plans to livestream the launch of its 8th-generation "Coffee Lake" processors on August 21 -- the same day that the great American solar eclipse casts its shadow across the United States. Intel's throwing shade. Eighth-gen Coffee Lake chips will be built using a revised version of Intel's 14nm process technology for an unprecedented fourth time, following in the footsteps of Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake architectures. You'll probably also need a new motherboard to use them. But most notably, Intel claims 8th-gen Core chips will be up to 30 percent faster than today's Kaby Lake processors in some applications. Intel chips haven't seen a performance leap like that in years. Beyond that, little is officially known about Coffee Lake, though the churning internet rumor mill thinks that Intel will up the core counts this time around to combat the threat of Ryzen.

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:27PM from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.

longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images 325

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 07, 2010 @11:44PM from the montezuma's-latest-revenge dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"

Obama's "ZuneGate" 608

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:17AM from the et-tu-barack dept.

theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."

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