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Twenty-four years ago, Microsoft launched one of the best remembered ad campaigns in the history of Madison Avenue. The focus of the campaign, albeit elliptically, was the then-pending release of Windows 95, the 15th iteration of the world's most ubiquitous (even at the time) computer operating system. The tag line, "Where do you want to go today," is still alive and well in the vernacular.

A refrain one often hears in educational circles is that U.S. universities and colleges are the “envy of the world.” Based upon the number of foreign students attending each year, there does appear to be some validity to that claim. These institutions are certainly doing something right.

Every once in a while in life, weird and unexpected things happen. Quite often this phenomenon is observable in nature, with prominent examples frequently forming the backbone of clickbait sinkholes on the internet. Take, for example, the Blood Falls formation of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. If you've ever seen a picture, such as the one below, then the name makes perfect sense.

We here at the TestOut Continuing Education news desk and blog factory consider ourselves to be relatively plugged in when it comes to both the IT industry and the wider world beyond that. We try to write about current events and real-world challenges. It's probably more interesting for you to read about those things, and it keeps us both on our toes and with one ear to the ground.

Equifax, Yahoo, the National Security Agency, Verizon, the U.S. Department of Defense, Home Depot, Target, Edmodo, VeriFone, eBay, TJX Companies, Uber, JP Morgan Chase, Sony PlayStation, Jimmy Johns — what do these companies and organizations, along with countless others, have in common? They have all been the victim of at least one devastating cyberattack.