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		<title>Albuquerque – Best Spot to View May 20 Eclipse Spectacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 coverage. And the view should be truly awesome as the Sun sets as a burning ring of fire. Solar eclipses are, of course, caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun. But the Moon&#8217;s distance varies, and so those eclipses where the entire Moon is between us and the Sun vary also. Since the Moon was at its closest to Earth recently with the &#8220;supermoon&#8221; when it was last Full (and therefore opposite the Sun), now on the other side of its orbit it will be at its farthest point from us when it passes in front of the Sun, and will appear smaller. While during a total solar eclipse, the Moon exactly covers the entire solar disk, in an annular eclipse like this, a thin brightly-glowing strip around the edges will still be visible. This means that when the Moon passes before the Sun that afternoon, it will not cover it completely but leave a red burning circle in the sky. Though the sky should not blacken and the stars come out as the flaming atmosphere of our parent star suddenly becomes visible, the view from right here should be pretty &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/abq-best-viewing-eclipse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CISPA: The Fight for Privacy Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Stop Online Piracy Act&#8220;, the last proposed draconian legislation aimed at protecting copyright and intellectual property, had not even ended before another such bill was proposed. This one is called CISPA, the &#8220;Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act&#8220;, which indicates it&#8217;s a somewhat different beast than SOPA, directed against hackers rather than file-sharers. (You can download a PDF of the actual bill, H.R. 3523, here.) It&#8217;s not quite SOPA risen like a zombie from the grave, but it is written in such ambiguous language that many privacy advocates consider it even more insidious and potentially harmful. CISPA, opponents claim, allow &#8220;cyber entities&#8221; such as ISPs, social networks, and cell phone and other service providers, to circumvent Internet privacy laws. It allows the government to monitor online communications if it suspects any kind of cybersecurity threat to be involved. And since the bill does not really define cybersecurity, that leaves the door wide open, allowing virtually anyone to be spied on for any reason. Not only the government is given this power. If a cyber entity thinks a threat is involved, it can take action. The only safeguard built in is that it cannot be done for &#8220;unfair competitive advantage&#8221;. All that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/cispa-privacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback Trojan is a Warning to Mac Owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 owners of over a half-million Mac OS X computers share the pain – and some of the vulnerability – that Windows users have long been familiar with. The malware is called Flashback, and was discovered not long ago by Kaspersky Labs, a leading Moscow-based software security firm. Flashback can hijack a Mac without even an administrative password, due to its exploit of a flaw in Java. Though discovered last September, Oracle, the company that makes Java, patched the hole back in February, but that didn’t solve the problem. It turns out Apple ships its own version of Java, and their patches weren’t issued until early April. (Obviously, the company has a learning curve about prompt and effective security responses in front of them.) By now there are a lot of infected Macintoshes – not really all that many by Windows standards, but it can still spoil your day if you have one. The virus masquerades as an installer for Adobe’s Flash, and it can install itself. All you have to do is visit an infected website with an unprotected computer. As of the latest reports, the trojan has created a botnet – a network &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/flashback-macs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What to do about your out-of-date Joomla site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;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 Joomla software are vulnerable to being taken over by cyber-vandals or crooks. The Joomla authors have done a great job of releasing new versions quickly as exploits are found.  However, older versions of Joomla (1.5.x especially) are somewhat difficult to update.  It&#8217;s not a simple button-push. Depending on how extensively the site has been customized, portions of the update may need to be applied file-by-file to avoid breaking functionality of the site. It&#8217;s tempting to just ignore the problem and hope your site won&#8217;t be found by hackers or vandals.  However, the bad guys are quite adept at scanning the internet for sites running vulnerable versions of various software.  If you don&#8217;t update your site, there is a very high probability that it will get defaced, or worse.  At SWCP we have seen three Joomla sites compromised in the past month. So what to do?  If you have a Joomla 1.5.x site you have 3 options: 1. Update to the latest 1.5.x Joomla release This is the simplest and probably cheapest option in the short term, but may not be good for the long haul. Have your web developer apply the latest Joomla update to your site. &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/what-to-do-about-your-out-of-date-joomla-site/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IRS helps enable online tax fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2012/irs-helps-enable-online-tax-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve wound up helping Internet tax scammers, too. And it&#8217;s not a phishing scheme or involves hacking, but is based on filing false online returns and collecting the refund. So this tax season, the government is warning people of the dangers. Identity thieves are very busy – last year, the IRS identified nearly a million fraudulent returns to the tune of $6.5 billion. Over half of these were related to identify theft, which is three times the amount of just three years before. And those are just the ones caught before any refunds had been issued. The IRS can&#8217;t, or won&#8217;t, even estimate how much money they&#8217;ve actually sent to scammers. Tax fraud has become an epidemic especially in areas like South Florida, with some gangs replacing drug sales and robberies with online crimes committed with iPads. Gangs even hold work parties to teach each other and commit hundreds of crimes in a single session. So many local officials are complaining about the lack of governmental concern and effective action. Working the fraud, authorities claim, is quite simple, and there are even written tutorials for thieves. The criminals first acquire victims&#8217; Social Security numbers and other personal information. Perhaps they buy the data from insiders with access to medical or financial records or &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/irs-helps-enable-online-tax-fraud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Mail Minder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southwest Cyberport is pleased to announce that our iPhone app, Mail Minder, is now available in the Apple App Store! Mail Minder &#8211; Intelligent Push Notifications for Email Mail Minder alerts you when important messages come in. Tell Mail Minder what to watch for: messages from a particular person, or location, or with certain key words in the subject. Then relax and let Mail Minder watch for them while you get on with your life. No more obsessively checking email every few minutes, wondering if the client has replied to your proposal, or your brother has emailed about the new baby, or the airline changed your flight after you left the hotel. The app is free (ad-supported) for up to 3 Minders, with in-app purchases avaialble for subscriptions. Paid accounts can add more Minders, get more frequent polling for new messages, and have no ads in the app. Mail Minder works with any standard POP or IMAP account (SWCP, GMail, etc.). Follow this link to download Mail Minder for free from the App Store! &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Passwords: Online Identity Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2012/online-identity-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtually everyone&#8217;s been stuck one time or another trying to remember a online password and thought, &#8220;There has to be a better way.&#8221; A recent article in our newsletter talks about the problem and suggests tricks to make it a little easier to deal with. But although a lot of smart people have tried to figure out a safe, reliable, and more convenient system, nobody&#8217;s come up with one yet. Now, however, the US Government has decided to gently encourage efforts. In the spring of last year, the Obama Administration announced the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, NSTIC. Like the National Broadband Plan, it&#8217;s not legislation or even regulation. Instead, NSTIC is a hopeful collection of idealistic principles and goals to promote development rather than a concrete plan with real funding and hard, measurable results. Nevertheless, many agencies and corporations are very interested. It&#8217;s easy to see why. Identity theft has become a major problem, costing millions each year, and passwords remain the weakest link in cybersecurity. Commerce might also be helped if you could buy books on Amazon with your Google account or download tax forms from iTunes. And public safety would benefit if your child could be automatically denied entrance to adult websites, or doctors could check in online to help provide medical services after a disaster. The dream is to build a safe method of sharing relevant sensitive information about users with online entities while &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/online-identity-standards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t bother backing-up your computers(unless you&#8217;ve actually tested recovery)</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2012/dont-bother-backing-up-your-computers-unless-youve-actually-tested-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is from guest blogger Peter H. Mantos of Albuquerque business consultancy Mantos Consulting, Inc.  (Also a long-time SWCP customer) The business community is well aware of the need to backup critical computer systems. However, very few small businesses have actually tested their backup system by performing a recovery. Business managers operate under a false assumption that they are protected from the worst. This article explains some common reasons that &#8220;successful&#8221; backups fail to meet business continuity needs. It encourages business owners to ensure that information technology (I.T.) systems can be recovered through actual testing. 1. INTRODUCTION You&#8217;re smart. You know that while wise use of computers (information technology, or &#8220;I.T.&#8221;) offers competitive advantages, they have now become a requirement, a &#8220;necessary evil&#8221; to stay in business. You also know that I.T. sometimes fails and without it, you are dead in the water. So, being smart, you do your backups; perhaps even regularly and even automatically. Perhaps you don&#8217;t back up every computer in the office every day or every week, but at least you back-up your important data; maybe even using an offsite service or by taking copies offsite. Good for you! But have you ever tried to recover using those backups? If not, don&#8217;t be smug about being backed-up! Many people have been unpleasantly surprised when the fickle finger of computer fate strikes. Some find that the backups don&#8217;t really restore the data or the functionality they &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/dont-bother-backing-up-your-computers-unless-youve-actually-tested-recovery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>February Portal is Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February, 2012 edition of our newsletter, The Portal, has been published. Pick up a copy here! This issue is dedicated to looking at Ebooks.]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Navigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heart of your Website &#8211; Navigation Navigation is the way your customers move around your website. The ease with which they find the information they want will make or break your site. See Mark&#8217;s previous article on restaurant websites with examples of how to alienate your customers before you even get started. This article, the third in a series on WordPress, discusses how to set up menus. Blog or CMS? First and foremost you need to decide if you&#8217;re building a blog or a CMS. The fundamental difference is in what you view as the most important parts of your website. Are you writing a magazine or newspaper where content changes often and is less important as it gets older, or are you writing a book, encyclopedia or catalog where articles remain valid and useful for long periods of time? Blogs have a natural organization that is time based. Your primary goal in organizing a blog is to choose good categories and tags. You need to be more careful with a CMS in how you make your information available to your customers. Some websites are a hybrid of a CMS and a blog. An example of this is SWCP&#8217;s home page. All of the product information, support references, pointers to email clients, and directories are Pages. On the Home page under Recent Articles or on the Articles page is a list of Posts, (like this one). Most company websites &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/wordpress-navigation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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