A computer hacking convention "DEF CON" will take place this week in Las Vegas. All you need is $150.00 in cash and make it over to the Rio Hotel Casino. It started 19 years ago where computer wizards would meet. The convention is four days long and 15,000 people. Hackers give up their identity and their secrets. They will expose the latest hacking tricks, lock picking and security breaching. The event is to inform everyday people and insiders about the risks of the digital world. Leave personal computers at home when attending this convention.
Sutter. J. (August 6, 2011). DEF CON: The event that scare hackers. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/05/def.con.hackers/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
On Thursday the sun released a massive solar flare. The flare effects are moving to earth and can affect radio communications, which include cell phones, GPS and airplanes. Don't solely rely on your GPS for directions when driving in your car bring a long a map. Research out of Cornell University in 2006, proved that the solar flare can affect GPS devices. This weeks flare "coronal mass ejection" registered M9.3 on the Richer scale of flares as being the highest in a medium category.
Gahran, A. (August 5, 2011). Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS. CNN Tech. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/08/05/solar.flare.gps/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
An unidentified substance washed a shore in an Alaskan village. Scientist are trying to identity a strange orange substance that has a oily feel to it. The orange substance was in the lagoon and it washed up on the beach. The substance might have rained down on the village because it was found in buckets that some residents collected from the rainfall night before. The substance was also found in the Wulik River that flows into the lagoon, which is used for the villages drinking water. There will be hold on using it as drinking water until the substance is identified as being safe.
CNN. (August 5, 2011). Mystery substance comes to shore of Alaskan village. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/mystery-substance-comes-to-shore-of-alaskan-village/?iref=obnetwork
Sutter. J. (August 6, 2011). DEF CON: The event that scare hackers. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/05/def.con.hackers/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
On Thursday the sun released a massive solar flare. The flare effects are moving to earth and can affect radio communications, which include cell phones, GPS and airplanes. Don't solely rely on your GPS for directions when driving in your car bring a long a map. Research out of Cornell University in 2006, proved that the solar flare can affect GPS devices. This weeks flare "coronal mass ejection" registered M9.3 on the Richer scale of flares as being the highest in a medium category.
Gahran, A. (August 5, 2011). Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS. CNN Tech. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/08/05/solar.flare.gps/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
An unidentified substance washed a shore in an Alaskan village. Scientist are trying to identity a strange orange substance that has a oily feel to it. The orange substance was in the lagoon and it washed up on the beach. The substance might have rained down on the village because it was found in buckets that some residents collected from the rainfall night before. The substance was also found in the Wulik River that flows into the lagoon, which is used for the villages drinking water. There will be hold on using it as drinking water until the substance is identified as being safe.
CNN. (August 5, 2011). Mystery substance comes to shore of Alaskan village. Retrieved August 6, 2011, from http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/mystery-substance-comes-to-shore-of-alaskan-village/?iref=obnetwork
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