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MUFON meets in Fayetteville, Rick Parker speaks to historians

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Historians

Rick Parker will present “The Goingsnake Massacre Story” when the Benton County Historical Society meets at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at 306 N.W. Second St. in Bentonville.

Goingsnake Massacre refers to the 11 victims of a fatal shootout on April 15, 1872, in the Goingsnake District of Oklahoma. The United States Marshals and the Cherokee Nation have differing accounts of this shootout. Parker has researched and written the catalog for the Goingsnake Massacre and expects to publish in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Museum.

Rick Parker is a sixth-generation Arkansan and conservator who did his undergraduate work at John Brown University and his graduate work at the Smithsonian Institute. He has worked on objects from the White House, Mount Vernon, Monticello, The Hermitage, Biltmore, Beauvoir, Old Ironsides, NASA, The Cherokee Nation, Clinton Presidential Library and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library.

Please join us for this interesting piece of history. Seating is limited, so arrive early. Refreshments will be served.

Information: (479) 273-3561.

Computers

The Bella Vista Computer Club will meet at 7 p.m. Dec 12 at Highland Crossings Center, Room 1001, 1801 Forest Hills Blvd. in Bella Vista. The program will be “Google Search Technique” with presenter Joel Ewing.

Sometimes more advanced search techniques than looking for keywords are required to eliminate items that are not of interest and find those that are. This will be an in-person meeting with Zoom simulcast.

The following classes are currently scheduled for December:

• Dec 20: 2-4 p.m. “Basic Computer Security, Part 1,” with Justin Sell;

• Dec 21: 1-3 p.m. “Installing WiFi Printers,” with Pete Opland.

Next Help Clinics will be from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 21 and Jan. 7.

Information: bvcomputerclub.org or (479) 696-8867.

Calico Cut-Ups

Calico Cut-Ups quilt guild’s Christmas luncheon will begin at noon Dec. 12 in the lower level at St. Theodore’s Episcopal Church, 1001 Kingsland Road in Bella Vista.

Prizes will be awarded in the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest.

Visitors are asked to bring food assigned to their last name: A-I, desserts; J-Q bread, rolls or dips; and R-Z, salads. Please have your food to the luncheon by 11:30…

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Students at Fayetteville Technical Community College find themselves on the front lines of 21st century warfare

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — Fayetteville Technical Community College is training people to protect others from cyber attacks.

The FBI issued a new warning about the possibility of Russian cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure, placing some students in Fayetteville on the front lines in a way they didn’t initially expect.

Christopher Barksdale is a retired veteran and former Army aircraft mechanic. Now, his new boot camp is inside a classroom at Fayetteville Technical Community College.

“It does kind of feel like you’re on the front line but in a digital sense,” Barksdale said. “You hear about digital attacks here and digital attacks there and it’s almost like you’re getting involved in a major conflict going on again.”

Barksdale enrolled in a six-week program designed to teach students foundation in cyber security.

Instructor Darryl Carter specializes in taking students with zero experience and building them into finely-tuned experts.

“The same technology that they use to operate your car is the same technology that they are going to use to try and break into your computer at home,” Carter explained. “So we have to (get) them scripting and we have to teach them software development and teach how programs are written and how to do that safely and effectively.”

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Auditor: Harnett Clerk of Court office had computer security problem – Fayetteville Observer

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Auditor: Harnett Clerk of Court office had computer security problem
Fayetteville Observer
LILLINGTON – Four of the 27 employees with the Harnett County Clerk of Superior Court office had inappropriate access to secure areas of the office's computer system, the state Auditor Office said in an audit published on Tuesday. "Improper segregation …

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Cyberwarfare training gets new priority at service academies – Fayetteville Observer

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Cyberwarfare training gets new priority at service academies
Fayetteville Observer
Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more courses and participating in elaborate cyberwarfare exercises as the military educates a generation of future commanders in the theory and practice of computer warfare. The academies …

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