Albuquerque – Best Spot to View May 20 Eclipse Spectacle

Like many things, astronomical events rarely live up to the advance hype excited enthusiasts promise, but this one should. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 20, there will be an annular eclipse of the Sun – and Albuquerque is dead-center along the path of maximum...

CISPA: The Fight for Privacy Continues

The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance. That has been demonstrated once again in the ongoing legal struggle over privacy on the Internet. The celebration and congratulations among the people who united to defeat SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy...

Flashback Trojan is a Warning to Mac Owners

It finally happened: for the first time, Macintosh computers have been attacked by a trojan virus in a big way. Few viruses have ever targeted them before, and for decades Apple owners were told simply not to worry, that viruses were a Microsoft problem. Now the...

What to do about your out-of-date Joomla site

We’ve noticed there are several Joomla sites out there which have not been updated to the latest version of the Joomla software.  This is alarming since many security exploits have been discovered in Joomla over the past couple of years.  Sites running older...

IRS helps enable online tax fraud

Your friends at the Internal Revenue Service are eager to get everyone to do their federal taxes online. But in their efforts to make everything quick and easy, they’ve wound up helping Internet tax scammers, too. And it’s not a phishing scheme or involves...