UCLA’s cityLAB presents two visions of a more urban, pedestrian-friendly Westwood

The general decline of Westwood Village ““ characterized by a loss of retail stores, a decline in moviegoers, a lack of parking and the issue of homelessness ““ compelled the Westside Urban Forum to engage UCLA’s cityLAB in developing a future plan to restore the community on Monday.

_Techski: A simple experiment easily bypasses UCLA login protection levels_

BY damien sutevski

With only his last name, university ID number and birth date, I reset and changed a friend’s password to gain access to his UCLA law school email account Thursday.

I then told Eric Bollens, a software architect at the Office of Information Technology and a fifth-year computer science student, about this “exploit.” Bollens relayed the information and within an hour, the IT security department had disabled the reset password feature for LawNET.

While researching this column, I attended DEF CON, an annual hacker convention, in Las Vegas this summer.