Review of July 2005 General Meeting
 

Calvin Weeks, Director of the OU Cyber Forensics Lab, Shares Knowledge with CCOKC

Calvin Weeks was the speaker at the July General Meeting and he presented much information that all computer users should know. Calvin has many years experience with law enforcement and security, dealing with computers. In forensics, he works to eliminate trouble areas in the computer network at OU.

He talked about protecting yourself from viruses and hackers. Some of the methods by which these programs are allowed to be installed on your computer were pointed out. He also discussed what different functions these programs have and what they will do to compromise your information.
Calvin spoke on hard drive security, primarily what to do to clean the hard drive in the computer that you are about to give away or sell. He said that data can be retrieved from a supposedly clean drive if it is not properly "wiped." Formatting a drive does not clean this information from it; a wipe program should be used.

We would like to thank Calvin for giving his time to answer our questions and leaving us with much valuable information that will help us keep our computers more secure.


 

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