Archive for February, 2008

Summer employment opportunities

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Information Technology Services is accepting applications for summertime employment.
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Please be sure to check the position you are interested in AS WELL AS the “I am interested only in summer positions” boxes.
Summer Technical Support Associate
Classification: Category III pay rate
Hours: 8:30-4:30 weekdays; starting late May until Aug. 1
Duties: Upgrade faculty/staff computers according [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day?! Join a Botnet!!

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Malware writers are hoping that you’ll open that Valentine’s Day card they sent you. Unfortunately, in addition to a greeting, the seemingly innocent “card” will be downloading malicious software to your PC. Once downloaded, your PC will become a bot, or drone, and will then join a “botnet“.
The good news is that these [...]

Patches, patches, and more patches!!

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Whether you’re a Windows or Mac user, major software vendors have released multiple patches in the past several days to close existing security holes within your system. There are also important security fixes available for popular applications like Adobe Acrobat, Mozilla Firefox and QuickTime.
Beginning with Apple, there is a security patch for Mac OS [...]