LAST NEWS OF THE SEMESTER!!!!

YES!  It's TRUE!  Last class meeting of the semester, and this news is it!

VMware Source Code Stolen and Posted Online

Right now the company says that the impact should be minimal, since what was stolen is one file from....

..... 2003 or 2004.

The code was stolen from a Chinese company in March.

So, if you use VMware, review your security for your virtual environments.  That's all you can do for now since very little is known about what the real impact will be.

Security News for 4/12

Yes, I know that I have not been keeping up with this very well.  As soon as I get all my papers written for other classes, I plan on going back and filling in the gaps.

Today's post, however, is for Thursday's class.  While searching for our weekly news article, I stumbled across this little gem:

Hotel's Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras

Basically, this hotels' ISP is injecting code into every website you visit that is supposed to show whatever ad they want you to see- regardless of what's supposed to be there, and without the knowledge of both the user and the page creator.

Now, imagine if that particular coding got hacked.  Yeah.  That's some scary shit right there.