Last week’s revelation that millions of LinkedIn passwords had been stolen was just the latest in a long line of data breach stories. While public…
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Malicious attacks on websites continue to make the news. Whether it’s Anonymous exposing a whole country’s control and data systems or hackers stealing huge amounts of…
Late in the afternoon on Black Friday, the oplin.org website was hit by an apparent Denial of Service (DoS) attack. DoS and DDoS (Distributed Denial of…
OPLIN 4Cast #204: Locking down WiFi
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Up until now, many public libraries have not been too concerned with the security of their public wireless networks. Libraries, after all, are open to…
OPLIN 4Cast #202: The Business of Bots
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Now that we’ve left Cybersecurity Awareness Month behind us (October, but you might not have seen it on your calendar) as well as the barrage…
You have heard it before, you will hear it again…security, security, security. Day after day we warn users that without good security, 1.) their e-mail…
1. New hardware on the horizon Dual-Screen Laptops?! Yes, They’re Real (and Coming Soon) IBM’s 8-core POWER7: twice the muscle, half the transistors AMD aims…
1. Server virtualization allows you to use a single set of hardware to drive multiple virtual servers. These virtual servers appear to the outside world…