Tech Today w/ Ken May

Giltronix Several changes that Adobe made in Flash 11.3 aim to boost the browser plugin’s security and reduce its susceptibility to attacks. The most significant of those changes is the introduction of sandboxing on the Windows platform. Due to the frequent discovery of Flash vulnerabilities and the relative ubiquity of the plugin, Flash is one of the most heavily-exploited pieces of software. Adobe and browser vendors have been working to make it harder to exploit by isolating the plugin and working to ensure that users have easier access to the latest version. Most browsers already implement process isolation for plugins in order to prevent Flash crashes from taking down the whole application. In some browsers, such as Chrome, the plugin is sandboxed on Windows to prevent it from accessing sensitive platform functionality. Adobe has worked with Mozilla to bring that feature to Firefox on Windows. Read more | Comments

She said P Image from San Jose State Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technology in museums, research parks, and university-allied institutions of all kinds. Future U Future U: Read all about it! College newspaper heralds future of journalism! Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks Future U: Classroom tech doesn’t mean handing out tablets “What I would have had to do to access original sources 15 years ago!” Prof. Jeff McClurken McClurken , Associate Professor and Head of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington , told Ars. “Now I can get the entire text of Lewis and Clark’s journals online, or most books from the 19 th century or an archive of tweets related to the Arab Spring.” “Education is in the the process of changing,” agreed Jonathan Rees , Professor of History at Colorado State University at Pueblo . “Technology has given us opportunities the people who taught me didn’t have.” Technology has made the job of the professor, both teaching and research, easier and more exciting. At the same time, it has introduced stresses and worries that were not present before. Read more | Comments