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Dell announced a security incident and as a precaution reset every user's password. This episode talks about this incident and how it ties to password practices for your online accounts.

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Three officers charged with covering up for Jason Van Dyke are set to announce Thursday whether they will mount a defense.

Chicago has closed or shaken up 200 schools since 2002. That has left 34 vacant buildings on the South and West sides, a WBEZ analysis shows.

Phishing is still primary mechanism to deliver malware into an organization. There is an art to breakdown a phishing email. This episode talks about subject lines which is the first aspect you read in an email message that gets you to proceed with opening it.

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Attorneys presented emails from police officials to argue there was a broad cover-up conspiracy after Laquan McDonald’s shooting.

Part of the Cook County Board President’s education platform means she’d push to end more than two decades of mayoral control of CPS.

A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in the case of Daniel Green, who was identified as the triggerman in the 1993 death of James Jordan.

In a court filing, prosecutors say Detective Thomas J. McDonagh tried to involve police bosses in Van Dyke’s legal defense.

This episode talks about the Security In Five podcast and some changes and improvements I am making to the show. This is mainly around the social network and communication aspects. Listen to the episode, follow the new Facebook page, follow the Security In Five twitter account and send in any feedback you have to make the show better or an episode you want to hear about.

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Unionized teachers from one of the largest charter school networks in Chicago headed to the picket lines Tuesday after contract talks broke down. It's the first charter school teachers strike in America.

Qualifying students can earn a two-year degree while getting four-year experience and automatic transfer to DePaul.

The unwieldy, 21-candidate race to become Chicago’s next mayor could shrink as campaigns begin fighting over ballot access.

In a major victory for parents trying to keep their Near South Side elementary school open, a judge ruled Monday that the school district must stop taking steps to convert the building into a high school.

In the time it has taken for a child to grow up in Chicago, city leaders have either closed or radically shaken up some 200 public schools — nearly a third of the entire district — a comprehensive new tally by WBEZ finds. See the full presentation here...

Nexstar is offering to buy Chicago's Tribune Media for about $4 billion Monday, four months after the collapse of a similar bid from Sinclair Broadcast Group.The deal would make Nexstar, whose stations reach nearly 39 percent of all U.S. television hou...

This episode is a new series that I will release as the topics make themselves available and that's on the listeners. I get feedback all the time from listeners and I decided to take these questions and turn them into a podcast episode because the topics relate to everyone.

This first Listener Q&A comes from a question I was asked, How Do You Deal With Security Anxiety? This episode, which is over 10 minutes, goes into my answer to that question.

If you have a question like you would like to hear as an episode contact me via email or Facebook and we'll go from there.

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You know that what folks on your holiday gift giving list want is books, right?
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The severe weather in Illinois was part of a line of thunderstorms that raked areas of the central U.S. late Friday and into Saturday, killing one person in Missouri.