Tuesday, March 30, 2004

http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
This site will host the first of its kind flash mob supercomputing project at University of San Francisco on April 3, 2004. While grid computing, like the SETI@Home project, has been around for some time, and "big iron" supercomputing dates back to WW II, the idea of creating an ad-hoc supercomputer on-the-fly that's tightly coupled on a fast LAN using ordinary PCs is a revolutionary idea.

Monday, March 15, 2004

http://www.denverda.org/ecu__employee_embezzlement.htm
Courtesy of the Denver District Attorney's Office, this link is to an employee embezzlement vulnerability test. The basics of internal control are included in this short self-test. I found this link courtesy of a weblog maintained by CPA Reed Tinsley at http://www.envoynews.com/rtacpa
http://www.defensivethinking.com/main/CallforHackers.html
What do you think of this? Kevin Mitnick cannot write about his own hacks until 2010, so insteac we see here a call for hackers by Kevin Mitnick. The aim is a second book which will describe attacks that exploit weaknesses in IT, such as physical, operations, and individual systems. This differs from his first book which emphasized the human element. Would you trust Kevin Mitnick not to turn you in to authorities, and how do we know it's even him that is posting this call?

Friday, March 05, 2004

http://www.csoonline.com/read/010104/asp.html
Cover Your ASP
Using an application service provider means your computer application is running on someone else's server. Is the provider's security up to snuff? Better know which questions to ask.
BY MALCOLM WHEATLEY