hacking

A server at Harvard was hacked, and to add insult to injury, the entire backup of the server was posted on bittorrent, with comments dressing down the sysadmin by name. Ouch! http://www.devicepedia.com/security/harvard-site-hacked-and-then-leaked-...

The guy who wrote the core code for Norton Antivirus thinks that the traditional measures taken by IT security pros (like vulnerability patching and strong passwords) are generally a waste of time: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=145224&WT.svl=news1_1.