| What Are Your Technological New Year's Resolutions?
I resolve to not use my email box as a primary CRM (customer relationship management) database and make better use the one that I am supposed to employ when managing my contacts. I also resolve to keep to a regular podcasting regiment and make sure that my VOX Daily blog postings at Voices.com are as they say, "daily"! With so much technology around me, for sanity's sake, I resolve to get out of my office at least once each day to enjoy the fresh air and social network more in the classical sense than simply online. I hereby challenge other web companies and entrepreneurs to do the same. Posted by: Stephanie Ciccarelli | December 12, 2007 12:13 PM | website .
Loan Scandal Escalates
Asked about Lehmann running its financial aid office while being paid by a lender, Silber said, "I don’t know if it raises concerns" for the university. As the loan scandal has grown in the last two weeks, more and more institutions have become involved. Cuomo started off with a series of information requests and then agreements with colleges to stop taking payments from lenders based on the business the companies gained from being on recommended lender lists maintained by the colleges. Many of the colleges also agreed to repay these funds, which Cuomo called "kickbacks," but many colleges defended as a means of obtaining funds for student aid. Many of those agreements were with Education Finance Partners, whose CEO is also scheduled to appear at the Key West conference on protecting institutions from questions about inducements.
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. Alex Dragulescu created the images for six cyber security threats using code detected by MessageLabs, including viruses, phishing, spam, spyware and Trojans. This is the Ghost spyware which saves the keystrokes, screen shots and websites visited. The information gathered can then be used for criminal purposes. Picture credit: MessageLabs .
Calendar -- Ankeny
Ankeny Parks & Recreation Building, 210 S. Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny.
Urbandale Garden Club - 1 p.m. Tuesday. Melvin Visser, a master gardener, will share his expertise on shade plants. Aldersgate United Methodist, 3600 75th St., Urbandale. 221-2580. Reservations required.
- LECTURES
"Focus On Design, Not Disease" - 7 p.m. Monday. Presented by Dr. David Wilkins. Huff Theatre, DMACC Building #6, 2006 S. Ankeny Blvd. (Hwy. 69), Ankeny. $10 per account holder; dmaccdrama@juno.com. Dialogue on Diabetes - 7-8 p.m. Tuesday. A1C Champion, a Success Story. Iowa Lutheran Hospital, 700 E. University Ave. 241-5074; www.iowahealth.org.
- LIBRARY
Early Winter Story Time Session - 9:15 a.m. Mondays-Tuesdays and Thursdays-Fridays, 11:15 a.m.
BCS Championship game: Online ticket buyers risk getting sacked
Use a credit card or PayPal, which offer some protection and the potential for reimbursement. Many sellers will include pictures of the tickets with their posts on auction sites or bulletin boards. Scrutinize the tickets for any inaccuracies or alterations, and cross-check the seat assignment with the map on the venue's Web site before you buy. Source: Better Business Bureau .
New York Jets Fansite Drops Yahoo Webcam Vulnerability Exploit
Yet another web attack targeting the visitors of a very popular website and the vulnerabilities discovered on their computers. This time, the affected page is a New York Jets fansite, which obviously has a lot of visitors every day. Just like the past attacks, the website has been compromised with an embedded Iframe that attempts to take the visitors on another website, apparently hosted in Estonia. "First, the iFrame (or an obfuscated JavaScript iFrame) contains a redirect to another website .
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