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Today, we have Cisco Systems visiting us to see what our college is all about. This is also an opportunity for IST students to learn how Cisco manages to recover from extreme disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Cisco’s Network Emergency Response Vehicle (NERV) is currently parked at the west end of the IST Building. The […]

I logged into my Citi Cards account today only to find this glaring red message staring me in the face.
Remember the TJ Maxx security breach where hackers stole hundreds of thousands of customer credit card numbers?
This happened way back in early 2007, but I guess my credit card was finally identified as one of the […]

Lee recently started his new blog at www.BloggerFusion.com, and to his surprise, his domain has already been hijacked by a search engine spammer. It started out by Lee’s thinking that he was the shit because his domain was already showing a PageRank of 1. I had to question this because he had just bought the […]

I exported all of my feed subscriptions from Google Reader and I am offering it for you in an OPML file. For those of you who aren’t already taking advantage of RSS technology, here’s a shortcut to jumping in head-first by using my own aggregated collection. You can download it and upload it into your […]

The webmaster for the East Stroudsburg Area School District (Pennsylvania) made a big mistake by publicly revealing the district’s mailing lists on its website. It’s not necessarily a security vulnerability, but this small collection of e-mail addresses sure does make it a nice time for spammers, since dozens of mailing lists can reach thousands of […]

Like always, I am learning something new over at SEOmoz, like the fact that Rebecca is a Korean. Rebecca, in her “Roundup Thursday,” links to an article about Google heeding to the web censorship request of the South Korean government. Now Korean netizens must type in their names and social security numbers before being able […]

The only wireless signal I am picking up at my new apartment in Wilkes-Barre is Prolog Unleashed. Damn, there aren’t any ignorant homeowners nearby to leech off of. I get as much thrill and excitement from discovering unsecured wireless networks as I would from stumbling upon a uranium deposit.
Apparently, Wilkes-Barre is working hard to advance […]

Stephen Davis, over at Vulnerable Minds, explains the irony of insecure college networks, considering that schools like Penn State University offer a Security and Risk Analysis major. He even goes as far as saying that he “no longer feels safe using a school desktop/laptop” because of the extreme likelihood of identity theft. Maybe Stephen has […]

Since I’m transferring to University Park next semester, that opens up a plethora of new options for me in IST, including the SRA major.
SRA is the new Security and Risk Analysis major in the College of IST, which is supposed to be a hot job lander. I’m not obsessed with the employment prospects, but I […]

You probably heard about the recent theft of TJ Maxx’s customer records. Hackers stole thousands of credit card numbers from their database. If you have shopped at TJ Maxx, how do you if your credit card isn’t being maliciously sold in the black market right now?
Take this short online quiz from www.onguard.gov to test your […]