Administration Error

Norm Coleman, a former senator from Minnesota, is going through a legal battle to try to win back his seat in the senate. If the way he manages his web site security and the crises it created are an indicator, I am not sure that he has a place there.

It seems that if the worse thing that can happen to hackers is a real accident to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. The number of hacks devoted to informing us about his fictitious accidents is just overwhelming. In this case AnantaSec reports a hack into Mac Rumors feed that was possible simply because a file with the administrator password was laying around accessible to anyone due to an administration error.

Again a Microsoft Excel file was left on a University's web site for anyone to view.

Additional information:

• More Social Security numbers leaked at MSU [Montana's News Station, Nov 7 2007]