A virulent strain of malware attacked critical infrastructures throughout Europe today. Croatia has been hardest hit so far, reminding many of the Christmastime episode two years ago when the country’s electric power grid in…
The Internet was attacked on Friday, May 12, 2017, by a fast-spreading piece of malware that asks infected users to pay up if they want to see their data again. It has already affected 200,000 victims…
President Trump signed the congressional repeal of online privacy rules that had been put forth by the Federal Communications Commission in the final days of the Obama Administration. In the short term, that amounts practically…
An historically large online data breach against Yahoo! that exposed the data of over half a billion of its customers has been traced to a team of Russian hackers. The perpetrators carried out the breach…
James Comey stated the obvious today. He suggested, “There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.” Does this shock anyone? Does this even disappoint anyone? It doesn’t shock or disappoint me. And I’m…
Airline disruptions have been in the news a lot over the past few years. Failures in information technology services have caused a number of these problems. These incidents make very clear the dependence of modern…
The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences took home the Third Place trophy at the State of Illinois Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (IL-CCDC) on Saturday, February 18. The eight students who represented Lewis Computer Science…
Iteration and recursion are two ways to repeat a set of instructions. Iteration involves using loops to control the repetition. Loops can be either counter-controlled or sentinel-controlled. Counter-controlled loops repeat a set of statements a…
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, manage. American voters, or at least the Electoral College members, have placed their faith in the seasoned acumen of the businessman (and the occasional business woman). They celebrate…
Donald Trump correctly claimed “No computer is safe.” He then went on to espouse the virtues of delivering important messages by courier and talking up his knowledge of cyber security, saying “I know a lot…