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It Can Be Done!

It Can Be Done!

Aug 23, 2010

Congratulations Brandon, so far you are the only one to accomplish this feat!

Week Two Discussion

Week Two Discussion

Aug 22, 2010

Welcome to the weekly discussion board topic. The purpose of the board is to spark interest, research, and conversation. The instructor will post a weekly topic and the students will respond to the instructor and fellow students’ comments for points. The replies will briefly be discussed during the following class meeting. In the news this week Germany...

It’s go time.

It’s go time.

Aug 14, 2010

Well it’s that time once again, you can see what we are doing the first week of class on your class page; look up top and to the...

The backup plan

The backup plan

Jul 1, 2010

Not only is he a talented photographer, but Chase Jarvis is also backup savvy. There is nothing fun about losing your “files” but clients losing their data is another painful story. In this short video Chase shows in great detail the workflow of his studio from start to finish. blah You can read more about Chase and see his work at Chase Jarvis...

Fried electronics

Fried electronics

Jun 11, 2010

By Bill Detwiler Photography by Brad Rowden Full Article When lightning strikes a computer, charred metal, melted plastic, and burned circuits are the results. This computer’s modem was hit with a power surge during an electrical storm. The computer was protected by a surge protector but not one with modem outlets. The owner brought the machine to IT...

Welcome back

Welcome back

Jun 10, 2010

The redesign is coming along, welcome back. CHMOD and a 777 will go a long way while reducing frustration at the same time. I forget how fast time goes by while designing! I am liking how WordPress works compared to the previous site which had a Joomla! back...

Break the glass

Break the glass

Jun 10, 2010

By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld.com Full Article Just how strong is the new glass housing on the upcoming Apple iPhone 4? You might want to hold your iPhone 4 tight, as it turns out just a few drops on a flat surface can cause the special glass housing to shatter to pieces. When he introduced the new iPhone 4 at the WWDC conference earlier this week, Apple CEO Steve...

Spam masquerading

Spam masquerading

Jun 10, 2010

by Elinor Mills Full Article E-mail inboxes are getting hit this week with spam campaigns that appear to be legitimate Twitter messages but which lead to malware and phishing sites, security firms warned on Wednesday. Some e-mails masquerade as messages from Twitter’s customer support team warning the recipient that the site has detected an attempt to...

PDF exploited

PDF exploited

Jun 10, 2010

By Sebastian Porst Full Article I spent the last two days with a friend of mine, Frank Boldewin of reconstructer.org, analyzing the Adobe Reader/Flash 0-day that’s being exploited in the wild this week. We had received a sample of a malicious PDF file which exploits the still unpatched vulnerability (MD5: 721601bdbec57cb103a9717eeef0bfca) and it turned out...

iPad users exposed

iPad users exposed

Jun 9, 2010

By Tony Bradley, PC World Oops. AT&T has egg on its face after leaving sensitive information on 114,000 owners of the iPad 3G exposed on the Web. A group known as Goatse Security has published the personal e-mail addresses of the victims–many of whom are popular celebrities, prominent executives and high-ranking dignitaries–that it obtained by...