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Response to the PHP2Shell Vulnerability
Approximately two weeks ago, on October 20th, an extremely serious security flaw was disclosed for PHP—the software that powers the vast majority of web servers and roughly 70%...
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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
Continue ReadingSome of the spammers we're tracking and why
We've been annoyed by spammers nearly as long as we've been online - and that's more than 20 years. We've been managing our own mail servers since 1994 and have watched with dismay as...
Continue ReadingGeeknet.ca spam for Tristar Mercedes via Rackspase.com - Geeknet.ca contact page broken
Mark Stevens @ Geeknet.ca obviously doesn't like receiving spam like the collect call spam he's been sending to my cellphone...which might be why there's no company email address on...
Continue ReadingMercedes cellphone spam from Geeknet.ca / Rackspace.com
Despite the high cost of mobile data communications in Canada, some of us get email to our cellphones.
On the one hand, it's convenient. On the other, we get to pay for...
Continue ReadingIf you lose your data, you could lose your business (Globe & Mail)
Small and medium-sized businesses are highly vulnerable to a range of cyberthreats, experts say. Backing up your data is vital, they tell GEORGE BUTTERS
Special to The Globe and...
Continue ReadingAliant - Insecure security? (part 2)
"It is an unsettling message," says Aliant spokesperson Joe Mosher. But he also says that the company's online credit card payment system is "no less secure" as a result.
The problem...
Continue ReadingInternet and Copyright - a sample IP address search (Session 4)
If you thought we've thoroughly covered techie Internet search techniques, let me set you straight: we have hardly scratched the surface.
In this session, we're going to take a look...
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