desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2010-06-10 11:25 am

in the news today

Hackers Tap Into Database Containing iPad User E-Mails

"...A hacker group known as Goatse Security said it obtained the e-mail addresses...."

[identity profile] smarriveurr.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully, they went with the iPad for the lead photo, and not the Goatse.Sec logo...

[identity profile] sleepsong.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Epic.

[identity profile] nnaylime.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I snorted when I saw that last night. In entirely unrelated news have you heard the tech support call from the women who wanted to disable Google Pacman?

[identity profile] cynara-linnaea.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I might need to play this periodically when I want to climb clocktowers at work. It helps put the tech issues I deal with in perspective.

[identity profile] nnaylime.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That guy, IMNSHO, deserves the biggest bonus available, because he was SO VERY PATIENT WITH HER. I don't think I could've avoided raising my voice or getting super-snarky with the whole "look for the X" thing. But really the "how many calls have you gotten about this?" part just about made the rest of the phone call.

[identity profile] cynara-linnaea.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
At work I ran a webinar for people who could not figure out how to use Meeting Wizard. We're talking not just set up an account, there was one person who could not even click through the link they get in their email when someone invites them to a meeting!

While I was running the webinar, the head of the office walked by. The next morning he said to me, "I had a feeling I knew how it was going when I heard you spelling 'Yahoo' for someone."

It was a bit of an FML moment, but thankfully my job has plenty of good stuff going for it. Also makes for good stories ^.^

[identity profile] dagoski.livejournal.com 2010-06-11 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I am so not installing their rootkit.