January 2012 Archives

A Horizon (Nebraska) High School student used a cell phone to hack into the school's network and shut it down.  Computer expert Dr. Robin Gandhi, assistant professor of information assurance at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, said it is not that difficult to do.  Sheriff's deputies said the student used a process called "ARP spoofing" which allows an attacker to alter routing on a network, and set up a "man-in-the-middle attack."

In Software Assurance in Education, Training & Certification Life Cycle Support Volume I – (Version 2.1, March 1, 2011), Gandhi writes:

Current events related to cybersecurity encourage a fundamental shift in the way we think about educating and training a workforce prepared to address security issues in all phases of a software system.

Read more: http://faculty.ist.unomaha.edu/rgandhi/.

Real estate expert Julius M. Feinblum says several of the Kmart and Sears stores that are closing may provide locations for the furniture industry.  The expert is president of Julius M. Feinblum Real Estate, Inc., a national real estate brokerage and consulting firm based in Plainview, NY, which specializes in new site locations and dispositions to the home furnishings industry.

Read more: http://www.furniturerealestate.com/index.php.

Paul Gores of the Journal Sentinel writes that the real estate market is returning.  Real estate expert  and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business Professor Morris A. Davis, said that although a European economic disaster could hurt the recovery, it looks like the risk of a further real estate decline is dwindling.  

Read more: jsonline.com.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that prostate  cancer screening with prostate specific antigen showed no obvious prostate cancer mortality benefit in a study of 76,000 men over 10 to 13 years.  Prostate cancer expert Gerald L. Andriole, Chief, Division of Urologic Surgery and Director, Men's Health Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis says “The message is that routine mass screening is not the way to go.”

Read more: http://urology.wustl.edu/Physicians.