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The CryptoWall Virus has been making its way through hundreds of thousands of computers and earning cybercrooks literally millions of dollars.  This new breed of virus, called ransomware, takes all of your computer files hostage by encrypting them with military level encryption.  Unencrypting the files manually would be impossible.  To get the key to unencrypt and recover your files, you are asked to pay a "ransom" in BitCoin, an untraceable form of digital currency.

One of the strong upsides to using Drupal or WordPress for your website, is the fact that an open source community is constantly tinkering away, making the platform better and more secure.  Keeping up with core updates and module or plug-in updates is important.  Updates for both of these platforms come out fairly frequently and with a little knowledge can be completed fairly easily...assuming nothing goes wrong.  If you're in the tech industry and work with websites or code, you know the cardinal rule is to backup your site before you begin.

So you have a new website and you are all jazzed up about keeping your content fresh and staying active on social media.  It doesn’t take long before the reality of running your daily business tasks puts your website on the back burner!  Enter the interns.

Many community colleges who offer Web Development programs often have an internship requirement.  Students need to spend a certain number of hours working in the real world for a real client. 

Recently, while building a page full of audio snippets for a client, we ran into a show-stopping bug.  The page was comprised of 12 blocks.  Each block highlighted a voice artist and included a pure HTML5 player to allow users to hear voice samples.  In the initial testing, we had just 3 of these voice artist blocks on the page.  We had successful playback in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 as well as Chrome, Sarfari and Firefox.