The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China’s armed forces, embedded a tiny microchip in servers manufactured by SuperMicro, one of the largest manufacturers of server-class motherboards. Once installed in a server, the rogue chips, which resembled…
Did you have to re-login to Facebook this week? You’re not alone. Some fifty million people were impacted by a new data breach in Facebook that could have given hackers access to user profiles. Facebook’s…
In 2004, The Department of Homeland Security designated October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And with each passing October since, as the leaves turn gold and the air turns crisp, we are reminded of our shared…
I loved A.P. English in high school. It was, by far, my favorite subject. The teacher did a good job preparing us for the A.P. English test, but that isn’t what made the class so…
I was quite amused this week by an article on The Onion website entitled “Young Girls Creeped Out By Older Scientists Constantly Trying to Lure Them Into STEM”. The article concludes with the observation that so…
A colleague in the Humanities shared a provocative article in Wired magazine with me today about a new initiative called the Ethical OS. “OS” means “operating system”, which, in computerspeak, is the software that enables your…
When I was kid, my parents stressed to me that there were certain topics you just didn’t talk about in public: religion and politics. You never knew whom you would offend if you brought up…
In 2016, Lewis University launched its Master of Science in Computer Science degree. The degree includes three concentrations: Software Engineering, Intelligent Systems, and Cybersecurity. That last concentration in Cybersecurity raised some eyebrows. We had been…
I was going to title this article “How to Make Talented People Feel Valued”, but that sounded a bit disingenuous. A leader’s goal shouldn’t be to give people the illusion of having a say and…
The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CaMS) at Lewis University proudly applauds the students of its Cyber Defense Group for winning the Department of Energy’s 2018 National Cyber Defense Competition. Computer Science majors Joey…