A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Department of Trade and Industry indicates that British businesses are making strides in their efforts to thwart computer attacks. Overall, the number of U.K. businesses to suffer computer incidents dropped from 74 percent in 2004 to 62 percent in 2005, according to the Information Security Breaches survey. By […]

Six years after it was launched in an effort to bolster the numbers of high-tech graduates, the Colorado Institute of Technology (CIT) has announced it will close its doors due to insufficient funding. CIT, which was once billed as the next Caltech or MIT, relied on private support, much of which dried up in the […]

UCLA is set to launch the first online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia of Egyptology. According to Willeke Wendrich, associate professor of Egyptian archaeology at UCLA and editor in chief of the encyclopedia, the project is largely a response to students’ increased use of the Web, which is rife with inaccurate and misleading information about ancient Egypt. The […]

Today is Emery’s first birthday. The last year has been full of many new experiences and exciting times.
This was his second Birthday celebration as we also had one out in Alberta when we went out for Easter. He recieved many gifts and has been playing with them for the last week.
Today the family […]

Despite pressure from a number of quarters to introduce restrictions on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress appears to be headed the other direction. Drafts of the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 are circulating among lawmakers, and a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee said the bill will likely be introduced soon. The bill […]

Officials at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) said a hacker broke into a computer system at the university’s McCombs School of Business and may have accessed sensitive data on nearly 200,000 students, faculty, and alumni. The breach is the second major incident for the university after a former UT student was found to […]

Jeaniene and Emery just got back today from Alberta. We had all gone out there for Easter but I had to return for work earlier in the week.
It was busy out there as it was calving time. We had lots of fun and Emery had his first horse ride. We took lots […]

Amid a number of reports warning that the United States is at risk of losing its global lead in technology fields, the University of Maryland will hold an event called Protecting Maryland’s Competitive Edge Summit. Attendees will include representatives of business, education, research, and technology interests. The event will focus on several key goals, including […]

Houston-based NextiraOne has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the government and the Oglala Nation Educational Coalition through the federal E-rate program. The work for which NextiraOne was under investigation took place at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. According to a complaint by the Department of Justice, NextiraOne […]

Charges have been filed against a network administrator in San Diego related to a June 2005 incident in which a server at the University of Southern California (USC) was compromised. Federal authorities have charged Eric McCarty with gaining unauthorized entry to a USC computer system for applications that contained information on more than 275,000 applicants […]