Earlier this year, pen-testers hired by the Internal Revenue Service attempted a time-worn attack as part of their assignment: They phoned up 102 people who work at an IRS office while pretending to be tech support and asked them for their usernames. The people called were also asked if they could temporarily change their passwords to something simple (love? sex? secret? god?) as part of a troubleshooting effort.

61 of the 102 people complied with the request of complete and total strangers. If this hadn't been a pen-test, those office networks would have been sitting ducks. Only eight people called …

An old chewing gum commercial says "Double your pleasure, double your fun," but I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind.. one hannah Kersey, age 23 from the UK have birth to triplets. Triplets carried to term in her two uterii. I'm not pulling your leg, folks, she really does have two wombs. The three girls (two identical twins, and an odd one out) were born by cesarian section seven weeks early.

Does anyone out there have a USB scanner that I can borrow? Mine just died in the middle of something important... The new threat to …

One Todd Shriber, age 28, press aide to US Representative Denny Rehberg, tried to hire a couple of hackers to edit his college transcript so that he'd look like a better student. The thing is, he e-mailed the guys at attrition.org, who have having a field day with this.