"in an effort to put more credibility into embellishing their resume, some candidates are paying hackers to plug their names into a class list database of a university they claim to have attended." I am not a computer geek or anything like that. However I feel that this statement is a bit exaggerated. University student records are very very very well protected. So the chances of a hacker breaking into a university database and succeeding in adding someone's name to the list are probably like 1 in million.
Nonsense A quote from the article is complete nonsense: "Breaking into a database is relatively easy because most database servers are not password protected, said Alfred Huger, director of engineering at anti-virus company Symantec." Why would someone from an anti-virus company be an expert at databases, database servers, and system security. He may be the director of engineering at Symantec but that really does not address his qualifications. Every DB and every DB server I have ever worked with, and I have worked with quite a few as I was a DB2 DBA for a time, is of course password protected. Even if we are to accept his hypothesis that DB servers are not password protected the databases themselves are. CNN produces a great deal of nonsense and relies on a great number of dubious experts in my most humble opinion. Matthew
