Firefox add-on allows identity theft
A new add-on for an everyday Internet browser could cost students personal information on popular websites.
The add-on, called Firesheep, is for Mozilla's Firefox. Firesheep users have the ability to steal personal information from websites and pose as any user.
Firesheep targets 26 online services, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, The New York Times, Twitter and Yahoo.
Miami University students connected to MU-Wireless are safe from Firesheep, but other network connections like MU-Guest could allow Firesheep users to steal personal information for a particular website. When navigating the website, the password is constantly being confirmed by the cookie file. With Firesheep, users are able to steal the cookie and make Facebook think they are the user. They would be able to post photos, write on walls, send messages and chat through Facebook as the user.
Miami students should use MU-Wireless only to avoid Firesheep users.
MU yearbook to appear in national publication
The 2008-09 Recensio, the yearbook for Miami University, was selected by Walsworth Publishing Company to be included in a prestigious publication called Possibilities.
The publication is an annual book produced by Walsworth that displays the best work of yearbooks across the nation. The volume features 187 yearbooks and 623 different examples. Miami's yearbook is featured twice in the book.
Recensio, a 288-page yearbook, will serve as an example for other yearbook groups across the country.
The yearbook was produced by Editor in Chief Maren Monitello and Assistant Editor in Chief Brianna Mulligan.
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To order a copy of the yearbook, visit www.orgs.muohio.edu/recensio/order.htm or visit 18 MacMillan Hall for more information.
Students get chance to help Darfur
The Save Darfur Club at Miami University will celebrate its annual Save Darfur Week Nov. 8 to11.
Fundraising events will include a letter writing campaign, bake sale and benefit concert featuring a capella groups The Cheezies, Remants, Misfits, Mergers and Treble Makers.
All proceeds will benefit the Global Hope Network International's efforts at the Otash IDP Camp in Nyala, South Darfur. Proceeds will go to a women's training center and a community health education program. While the women's training center provides income-generating and vocational training for women at the camp, the community health education program provides a variety of classes that address topics related to health and hygiene.
For a full list of events, visit http://www.muohiosavedarfur.com/index.html.
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