Susannah Cogburn is a Master of Environmental Science student at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she studies the effects of chemical contaminants on bull shark physiology and their implications for Florida’s marine ecosystems. She was awarded the Florida Sea Grant Guy Harvey Fellowship in 2024. Susannah holding a Bull Shark in Pumpkin Bay. When I … Read more
TDI experts answer Texans’ top auto insurance questions. What should auto insurance cost, and what’s the best kind to get? To answer a question about cost, you need to know what a policy covers first. TDI’s automotive insurance guide can help, and there’s a policy comparison tool at www.opic.texas.gov. It’s important to know what you … Read more
Flipaclip, an animation creation app that is particularly popular with youngsters, has exposed the details of over 890,000 users. A vulnerability in the frame-by-frame animation app, which is available for iOS and Android, was initially discovered this month by researcher “BobDaHacker” who responsibly reported it to FlipaClip’s developers Visual Blasters. The vulnerability allowed unauthorised parties … Read more
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recently launched a new Light Duty Complaint Resolution Office, for the purpose of resolving disputes over transitional and permanent job assignments for both state fund and self-insured workers’ comp claims. This is an important (and potentially problematic) development for … Read more
Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways. Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper ballots through the mail. In … Read more
