http://support.lcc.gatech.edu news from the LCC Computer Support office Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:26:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a reminder that no member of the Georgia Tech community should ever consider sending his or her GTAccount password to anyone via email, or even telling it to anyone on the telephone. OIT will never ask you for your password over email, the telephone, or anywhere else! You’re ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/its-not-for-real/ Many of the world’s recent technological developments were envisioned in fiction long before they became physically realized. This news blog chronicles science news in context of the Science Fiction that inspired new discoveries. Take a look at http://www.technovelgy.com/ to find out who thought of it first! http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/news-blog-where-science-meets-fiction/ The GT Library is hosting a student Flash animation competition, supported by the Library’s Multimedia Studio! The Multimedia Studio is a wealth of resources that benefit students in developing media and incorporating rich media into their coursework and projects. Competition details, including deadlines and prizes can be found at: ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/gt-library-hosts-student-animation-contest-2/ The GT Library is hosting a student Flash animation competition, supported by the Library’s Multimedia Studio! The Multimedia Studio is a wealth of resources that benefit students in developing media and incorporating rich media into their coursework and projects. Competition details, including deadlines and prizes can be found at: ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/gt-library-hosts-student-animation-contest/ http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/tsquare/reg.php CETL is running several classes on T-Square, including basic classes as well as sessions focused on more specific topics. If you’re wondering what the extent of T-Squares capabilities are, they can answer your questions and provide a place to suggest improvements. T-Square is Georgia Tech’s implementation of the open-source project, ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/t-square-upcoming-training/ Are you seeing spam emails giving you account login information for MP3 and game websites? We’ve just gotten word that a few of these are making their way through the GT email system. As usual, they contain a link that will send you to a webpage which tries to download ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/zero-day-virus-warning-are-you-getting-emails-for-website-accounts-that-you-didnt-request/ The virus-bearing greeting card spam is still a prominent threat; we’ve been seeing messages about this on the GT computer support staff mailing lists, and the problem is getting media coverage as well: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/07/notsofriendly_greeting_cards_1.html Virus greeting cards can appear to have been sent by real people, perhaps even someone you ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/more-on-greeting-card-viruses/ Some of our department’s faculty have started seeing a ramp-up in E-Card spam messages. These have been around for a while, but the latest batch of Fourth-of-July-themed messages may have prompted more Internet users to click on the bogus cards and infect themselves with viruses, causing an increase in virus ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/e-card-virus-spam-is-making-rounds-again/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6065534.stm Are lawmakers really trying to tax in-world transactions? Or do they simply want to level-up their orcs? We may never know. http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/mmorpg-economies-in-the-news/ According to various sources across the web, the vulnerability in Firefox announced by a pair of presenters at the ToorCon hacker convention is not very threatening. The presenters claimed to have code that would exploit the security flaw and install rootkits on the host machine. As it turns out, they ... http://support.lcc.gatech.edu/news/in-the-news-fabled-firefox-flaw-is-a-halfhearted-hacker-hoax/