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	from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide If you think this arrived an hour early you need to get with the Daylight Savings Time program and set your clock ahead an hour. On April 1 I posted an article about April Fool's Day and its impact on computer security as well as an article about hoax and chain-letter email. I re-posted an old article about the use of the term "hacker" and placed a shortcut to the Security Alerts and Bulletins subject in the Essentials box at the top left of the screen. Have a great week!
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Happy April Fool's Day!! April Fool's Day is the annual day to celebrate pranks, jokes and mayhem. The celebration dates back a thousand years or so- possibly having origins even further back in various pagan celebrations. There have been some tremendous hoaxes pulled throughout...read more					More Topics • Book Review: Myth of Homeland Security • Introduction to Port Scanning • Port Knocking • Book Review: Hacker's Challenge 2 • Free Vulnerability Scanning Software
Virus Hoaxes and Spam Chain Letters Users fall victim frequently to virus hoaxes and spam chain letters imploring them to share the information with everyone they know as quickly as possible. Emails of a "sky is falling" nature that claim to be from Bill Gates personally...read more
Hacker? Cracker? Web Surfer With Malicious Intent? This comes up again periodically- this question of whether an unauthorized intruder who infiltrates your computer network is a "hacker". True hackers bristle at the "mis-use" of the term. So, what exactly should we call someone who attacks your computer system...Read More
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