All posts by Geof Franklin

Researching ways to improve scientist's access to data. Programming software to solve humanity's problems. Disseminating emergency preparedness knowledge. Sharing knowledge about science. Practicing amateur radio. Serving humanity through volunteer efforts. Drives a robot to work.

Data breach!

…I’m speechless.

This past week there was an announcement from a local university that they exposed the private information of 18,931  employees from 2002 had been published for “at least three years.” They caught it by total accident when a current worker found the file online and quickly moved to remove the data.

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Secure web connection snooping?

Oh you’ve got to be kidding me.

A published report came out a bit ago about a hacker who basically destroyed the entire trust relationship scheme on the internet. I’m talking about digital certificates, those little pieces of computer code that verify the identity of a web site, or are used to secure a web connection between a server and a user. So why is this important? Continue reading Secure web connection snooping?

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Computer Monitoring

Do you have a computer network? How is the health of each piece of hardware in your network? The answer for most small businesses is surprised uncomfortable silence.

A screen capture of the network scanner
Not much hard drive space left here…

A friend first contacted me because one of their servers ran out of hard drive space and no one noticed for weeks. Continue reading Computer Monitoring

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