The hack of T-Mobile is more akin to smashing a window, grabbing merchandise, and running. The attack that exposed the personal information of millions of T-Mobile customers spotlights a common type …
The Dallas Independent School District will require face masks on district property beginning Tuesday, a move the district says is necessary to help prevent the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus.
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa made the announcement during a Monday morning news conference, defying an executive order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that prohibits districts from mandating face masks.
“Governor Abbott’s order does not limit the district’s rights as an employer and educational institution to establish reasonable and necessary safety rules for its staff and students,” a district statement read. “Dallas ISD remains committed to the safety of our students and staff.”
The Dallas Independent School District will require face masks on district property beginning Tuesday, a move the district says is necessary to help prevent the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus.
Hinojosa, who leads the largest school district in North Texas and second-largest in the state, referenced the recent UT Southwestern COVID-19 forecast which predicts a worrying spike in virus-related hospitalizations by the end of this month if behaviors aren’t changed.
According to the study, should behavior in Dallas and Tarrant counties continue in the current unmitigated, pre-pandemic patterns, with no masking and no social distancing, the number of occupied hospital beds in Dallas County is predicted to reach 1,500 by Aug. 23 and could reach 4,000 by October.
Parents both in and outside of Dallas ISD reacted to the news — many positively.
“My son is behind in school he’s been virtual since March 2020 and he has to go back,” said Brittany Liles, a Frisco ISD parent who chose in-person learning, despite what…
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News Summary:
From the beginning of the pandemic and throughout the recovery journey, Cisco has remained committed to helping people and communities around the world drive an inclusive recovery. As part of the ongoing effort, today, Cisco announced the availability of purpose-built technology and solutions that help companies reimagine how they work – and keep employees safe.
Whether an organization’s goal is to bring people back into the office, or to evolve support for a remote or hybrid workforce, Cisco’s new innovations – and the breadth of Cisco’s networking, security, cloud and collaboration portfolio – support multiple options to create a Trusted Workplace that helps enable a Safe-Return-to-Office and a Secure Remote Workforce: from automating, securing, and scaling network connectivity, to social density and proximity insights for employee health and safety, to securely bringing people together to work however and wherever they want through Webex and collaboration devices that leverage AI, sensors and alerts.
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Recent research shows:
The fact that the computer is infected with a computer virus is today synonymous with disbursement of money. The vast majority of malware (or malicious code) that circulates on the internet seeks a direct financial reward, for example by encrypting data and asking for a reward for releasing it ( ransomware ). In some cases, the victim will only find out that they have been attacked when they see the amounts stolen from their checking account.
Viruses were not always this discreet. At the dawn of the consumer computing age, malware was more of a pastime for early hackers; a way of demonstrating your knowledge and putting yourself to the test. Its display was very visual: colorful lights invaded the screen at a frantic pace, cascades of windows opening incessantly, letters falling to the bottom of the monitor; Apparitions of ships, marijuana leaves, naked women, supposedly funny messages … Those infected were harmed, who could lose all their data, but they were not plucked.
Times have changed so much in the world of viruses that there are true nostalgics of the first malware . Among them the Texan Daniel White (Danooct1), who has almost 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. It shows what happens when a computer is infected with any of these malicious codes .__ AOPEN__0 In its most watched video, , which exceeds 4.5 million views, you can see how the windows of the YouAreAnIdiot Trojan are displayed incessantly until the computer restarts. He has also made demonstrations with more recent examples, such as the media Wannacry or NotPetya , from 2017. And he has even recorded experimenting with viruses developed for the occasion by his own followers.
The virus as a form of
expression “I think I will have taught how about 400 different malware works. I especially like the flashier ones. The ones that affected MS-DOS and early Windows were especially known for that, ”explains White from Dallas. “Although the majority of malware from the last 15 years is silent and financially motivated, the common perception of viruses still conjures up the mental image of airplanes flying across the screen, windows with rude messages, and the random and total destruction of…