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What’s in a Name – Blackboard or
CE6?
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While Blackboard, Inc. is the new owner of the latest version of
WebCT (Campus Edition 6) and quickly transforming the product to
reflect its own branding, faculty should be careful not to confuse the
course management system with Blackboard, Inc.’s original product,
Blackboard. The name distinction is going to be important to faculty who
use e-learning publisher-ready materials, such as test banks and “e-Paks.” Please note that these materials must be
requested for Campus Edition 6 (or CE6). Additionally, faculty
who use test-development software, such as Respondus, will need to make
sure they upload assessments in the CE6-Vista formats. At
some point, the course management system formerly known as WebCT may be
fully integrated with the course management system known as Blackboard,
but the two systems are significantly different to date and may remain
significantly different for some time. This distinction will be reflected
soon in the language OIT uses to describe the course management system.
You will hear us call it Blackboard-CE6 or by either of its diminutive
forms: BB-CE6 or CE6. Look for more information on CE6 on the DSU
website as well as future newsletters. If you need assistance or
are uncertain what to purchase, please contact the OIT Help Desk @ 4444
for assistance.
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Predator Alert -MySpace Users!
No,
OIT is not preaching but we are going to lecture a bit here.
Internet security is a complicated, comprehensive, and expanding dilemma
that faces IT managers every day. Social web sites, such as MySpace
and Facebook have proven to be lucrative hunting grounds for
predators. Yes, these sites are “cool” as my teenage daughter tells
me daily; however, these sites provide opportunities for evil. The
challenge is that information is placed on the web under the guise that
it is secure or private - however the web sites themselves are neither
necessarily secure nor private. It does not take much to “hack” a
web site and any associated information. This information can be
used in a plethora of not so good ways. Today, seven sexual
predators have been arrested for utilizing MySpace profiles in an attempt
to lure unsuspecting victims.
Please
take note of these events and work to protect yourself and your
children. Never include personal information like your address,
cell phone number, or birth date. Be unspecific, utilize email with
close friends for personal items, change up your passwords and user ids,
and be careful. For more information, check out: MSNBC - Sex offenders on
MySpace arrested
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Issue No. 86 – June 15, 2007
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 Long Distance
Authorization Code Update
OIT is quickly moving to production with the new
telecommunications billing system. This system provides many new
features to the campus, including e-billing, online payments, and better
reporting. We have migrated over existing authorization codes so a
new code will not be required for the most part. However, as
part of this new system, every authorization code does require that it be
associated with an individual. Joanna Barnes will be contacting
affected departments over the next several weeks to address this
requirement. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding
this process, please don’t hesitate to contact Joanna at 4444 or email
her at jbarnes@deltastate.edu.
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 Identifying
Spoofed Websites
From
www.htmlgoodies.com
“You
click a link on a page or in an email you have received. And why
not? The email is from the bank, it has their familiar logo and
all their usual wording in it. The clicked link takes you to a
page with the usual account login fields for you to put in you username
and password. The URL up in the address bar is the usual URL for
your on-line banking and so you're pretty comfortable. You type
in your username and password but for some reason it doesn't
take. You try again and you're logged in the usual fashion and
see all your account details. Everything is as it should
be. Or is it?” Read more on the latest cyber crime technique in
Identifying
Spoofed Websites
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Technology Term of the Week
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(from Webopedia )
(v.) Spoof To fool. In networking,
the term is used to describe a variety of ways in which hardware and
software can be fooled. IP
spoofing, for example, involves trickery that makes a message
appear as if it came from an authorized IP
address. Also see e-mail spoofing.
Spoofing
is also used as a network management technique to reduce traffic.
For example, most LAN protocols send out packets
periodically to monitor the status of the network. LANs generally have
enough bandwidth to easily absorb these network management packets.
When computers are connected to the LAN over wide-area network (WAN) connections,
however, this added traffic can become a problem. Not only can it strain
the bandwidth limits of the WAN connection, but it can also be expensive
because many WAN connections incur fees only when they are transmitting
data. To reduce this problem, routers
and other network devices can be programmed
to spoof replies from the remote
nodes. Rather than sending the packets to the remote nodes and waiting
for a reply, the devices generate their own spoofed
replies
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