DOD reveals viral infection:
A virus infected two computers managed by the Army Space and Missile Defense Command operating on the Defense Department’s classified Internet recently, according to Lt. Gen Larry Dodgen, head of the command.
Dodgen, speaking here at the Army Director of Information Management (DOIM) conference said two computers in the Space and Missile Defense [...]
If you said “Microsoft” you wouldn’t be too far off, but according to Bruce Schneier the biggest threat in the IT age is people.
Since the beginning of time, people have always been the biggest security threat. That hasn’t changed because of computers. People are why firewalls are invariably misconfigured. They’re why social engineering works. They’re [...]
From Robert Paterson’s Weblogis this review of Joe Trippi’s The Revolution will Not be Televised: Democracy, The Internet, and The Overthrow of Everthing.
I have been feeling that we are indeed at a point of paradox where a new and better world is in sight just as we see the world of corporate power and [...]
Could you live without your e-mail for a day? That’s the question posed by Eric Mack in More productive with[out] e-mail? After a brief history of e-mail’s climb to the top, Eric points to They’ve got less mail, a Fast Company article about the Veritas Software marketing department making Friday a “no e-mail [...]
From EduBlogInsights is a discussion of Instructional Models for Using Weblogs in eLearning: Case Studies from a Hybrid and Virtual Course, published in Syllabus magazine. The article includes survey results and observations from the integration of blogging into online and hybrid courses over the last year at the University of Arizona.
In various [...]
There are a lot of great tools out there: high-tech, low-tech, no-tech, and everything in between. Some tools are for individuals, some for organizations, some for both. Though all of these tools will likely work for some of the people some of the time, it is very unlikely that these tools will [...]
An article from the New York Times online, In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards discusses the role that blogs can play in the classroom. An excellent example of how blogs can be much more than just a way to say something, they can actually be a way to help you [...]
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