Security Risks in Public Hot Spots

"Whenever you open a laptop or tap a mobile device in an area with a lot of people also using such equipment, you’ll invariably see a network named “Free Public Wi-Fi” or some variant. Such
networks are often the result of a quirk in Windows XP,3 which can be innocent (but annoying), but the networks can also be spawned by identity thieves looking to grab personal information from the unwary.
The urge to connect to “free” Wi-Fi is strong, but these networks are really computer-to-computer connections masquerading as an available network.

Understand Seucity Threats

If you ever needed ammunition for your management about getting better network-based defenses for your enterprise, a new study by F5 Networks should help you. Earlier this fall, the company asked 1000 IT managers from around the world about their existing security measures and the cost of various exploits that they have observed over the past year. Strikingly, 100% of them have observed DNS attacks and nearly as many have observed denial of service attacks, both of which are worrisome.
Don't know about DNS attacks? Here is an amusing video from F5 that explains the situation (and also pushes their own DNS server solutions, too.)

Global Population... In Water.

UJam: Sing and it does the rest

Kinect turns 1: Wow. When MS open sources, wow.

Student Work: Lindsay loves Photoshop Brushes

One of my students has taken it upon herself to experiment with brushes. The entire work is hers, a self-portrait, and the shadow a carefully drawn sketch in Photoshop. The background is a combination of brushes and effects. Fabulous.

Open Source Cancer Research: Yeah.