The Financial Services Authority (FSA), a financial watchdog organization in Britain, has called on the country’s banks to increase online security. According to the FSA, losses to online banking fraud tripled in the first half of 2005 compared to a year earlier. A study conducted by the FSA revealed that half of online banking customers […]

Responding to complaints that its iTunes software infringed on user privacy, Apple has made changes to the application. At issue is a feature called MiniStore, which recommends songs to users based on what they are listening to. When the new feature was released earlier this month, some users discovered that the feature transmitted information about […]

A study by the FBI estimates that yearly losses to computer crimes exceed $67 billion. The study is based on the results of a survey of more than 2,000 organizations, of which 90 percent reported having suffered some form of computer attack in the previous 12 months, and 64 percent said they suffered a financial […]

Officials from research centers on opposite sides of the United States announced a project that will link the two centers with extremely fast connections, allowing researchers at each site to collaborate with colleagues at the other as if they were in the same location. The Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis […]

Online stock broker E*Trade has announced a “zero liability” policy in which it will cover all losses resulting from online fraud. Although some other online brokerage firms said they have absorbed some or all of the costs of fraud in past incidents, E*Trade becomes the first to establish such a policy. Losses due to fraud […]

Despite the obvious benefits of putting lecture materials online, some faculty have seen a sharp rise in absenteeism that results from students’ having access to class content over their computers. Terre Allen, a communication studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, said that when she posted most of her notes online, attendance in her classes […]

I finally got caught up with publishing some photos to the site. Check out the new sections (Alberta October 2005, Christmas 2005, and Jolene Thacker Visit January 2006) as well as several new pictures in the Emery’s Infant catagory.

This was Emery’s First Christmas. I think we enjoyed it more than he did.

If you are a chocolate fan it does not get any better than this cheese cake. It is one of the richest deserts out there and goes nicely with a ice wine.

A government Web site for contractors has been shut down due to a security flaw that allowed users of the site to see and change data submitted by other vendors. The General Services Administration (GSA) closed eOffer after a consultant reported the problem. Three weeks passed, however, between the reporting of the flaw and the […]