According to this article on Wired hotel IT security is apalling in general. An Excerpt: A vulnerability in many hotel television infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain guests’ names and their room numbers from the billing system. It can also let someone read the e-mail of guests who use web mail through the [...]
Entries from July 31st, 2005
Goverment Servers For Sale Without Deleted Data
July 31st, 2005 · No Comments · Privacy, Security
It seems that if you’re lucky and buy 2nd hand computer equipment from you local goverment, you may get more than you bargained for: Early last week eighteen IBM RS/6000 E20 servers went up for sale at an government auction for ~$20 AUD a server, anyway after a couple days they were delivered and I [...]
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