Wednesday, August 19

In the news:


Techski: A simple experiment easily bypasses UCLA login protection levels

BY damien sutevski With only his last name, university ID number and birth date, I reset and changed a friend's password to gain access to his UCLA law school email account Thursday. I then told Eric Bollens, a software architect at the Office of Information Technology and a fifth-year computer science student, about this "exploit." Bollens relayed the information and within an hour, the IT security department had disabled the reset password feature for LawNET. While researching this column, I attended DEF CON, an annual hacker convention, in Las Vegas this summer. Read more...



Facebook under scrutiny for privacy issues

Americans spend about 53 billion minutes on Facebook per month "“ more than on any other social networking site, according to research conducted by the Neilson Company. This means millions of users logging in and out on a daily basis. Read more...




UCLA Quidditch team seeking World Cup win

After brandishing shirts on Bruin Walk and broomsticks on the Intramural Field, UCLA's club Quidditch team is about to seek its first title at the World Cup tournament in New York in November. Read more...

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Quidditch team members Asher King Abramson, Harrison Homel, and Christina Kulyk sell their team t-shirts on bruinwalk. The quidditch team is fundraising for the World Quidditch Cup this coming November in New York.