October 2009
2 posts
Windows users must do more than antivirus
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara describe a four-month study in which they connected their servers to a collection of compromised computers known as the Mebroot botnet. 13.3. percent of systems had been modified by malicious or unwanted files. Moreover, more than half—about 54 percent—were running some sort of antivirus software. About 12 percent of those...
Open College Textbook Act of 2009 (Introduced in... →
The Open College Textbook Act of 2009 has been introduced in the Senate with the purpose of lowering costs and increasing accessability. From the bill:
Making high quality open textbooks freely available to the general public could significantly lower college textbook costs and increase accessibility to such education materials…Open textbooks can improve learning and teaching by creating course...
