Nominate Your Talent

Have you thought about nominating one of your customers for Computerworld’s annual Best practices in BI & Analytics Awards Program?

Award finalists and winners will be featured on the event website, in an event press release, Computerworld magazine, Computerworld.com and all conference literature.

Additionally, all award recipients will have the opportunity to participate in a lively panel discussion at the conference and to share your winning project and BI strategies with other honorees and conference attendees.

This program identifies and acknowledges excellence in the following four areas:
• Running the Business on BI
• Driving Process Change with BI
• Integrating BI Across the Organization
• Improving Results through Cloud-Based BI
To Nominate, visit http://bestpractices.computerworld.com/2010/BIP/

If you have questions, please contact Abbey Weintraub at aweintraub@idgenterprise.com.

Eligible nominees are exclusively IT end-user organizations. Nominations of IT end-user organizations are accepted from IT users themselves, their public relations representatives, or vendors on behalf of their IT end-user customers. Multiple submissions of case studies describing different deployments per IT end-user/organization will be considered.

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Black Hat Gets Its Video Feed Hacked

IDG News Service - A security expert found a way to catch the talks at Black Hat for free, thanks to bugs in the video streaming service used by the security conference.

Michael Coates, the head of Web security for Mozilla, said he discovered several problems while trying to sign up for the US$395 service. As he went through the sign-up procedure, he was "quickly sidetracked by a few oddities in the design," he wrote in a blog post describing the incident.

He poked around a bit more and discovered that he could register an account without providing anything more than an e-mail address, and then use that account on a test login page to access the videos for free.

"Now, to be fair, Black Hat didn't operate this video service themselves," Coates wrote. "But its still a bit ironic that the largest hacking conference in the world has this security hole in their video streaming service."

Black Hat's video streaming was provided by Inxpo this year.

This is the first year the conference has made video streaming of conference sessions available, Black Hat Director Jeff Moss said. Like other companies, the conference takes a risk when it works with third parties. "I'm always nervous about those systems, because we don't get access to their source code and we can't review it," he said. "We don't have time to write video streaming software, so we picked a vendor that we thought was good... apparently they'd never hosted a security stream before."

The hotel partners for Black Hat and its sister conference Defcon usually get a similar type of security penetration test when they start hosting the conferences. For the first year or so, the hotel's TV systems or phone lines will get hacked, and then they eventually lock things down. "It's kind of like their trial by fire: Welcome to Black Hat," said Moss.

Coates said that he notified the video streaming company before blogging about the issue, and they quickly fixed the bugs. Inxpo couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Moss, who runs a conference devoted to the disclosure of security problems, had nothing but praise for Coates' security find. "Well good for him, that's cool," he said. "If you can't protect your stuff, that's what happens."

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