You are sitting at work, just a normal day when you hear a confrontation in the office. There is yelling and screaming and all of a sudden there is a string of gunshots… “Shots fired” what do you do? There is a company out there that is trying to make it so that people can prevent these situations from becoming bigger then they need to be, and hopefully from ever happening.

With our world as it is today there are so many contributing factors as to why our students, and why common man, can snap at anything. There are so many things that happen in our daily lives, so many stresses, that can turn a person into a malicious mob. Yesterday in the United Press international, I found this article on “Violence Prevention Training” and thought that it would be a good blog to post.

The Washington-based Center for Personal Safety and Protection is urging university and corporate security officials to take action against violence.

As the anniversary of the Virginia Tech University shootings approaches, the Center for Personal Safety and Protection is calling on security officials in academe and in corporate environments to take preventative measures to safeguard against violence. Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on April 16, 2007, the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Center for Personal Safety and Protection officials say workplace violence costs employers $36 billion while affecting millions of Americans each year. The organization announced its training program, Shots Fired, is an effort to provide guidance for employees and students on handling an incident similar to what happened at Virginia Tech or more recently at Northern Illinois.

“Colleges and universities have spent a great deal of time and money since Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois in trying to make their campuses safer,” Allen Bova, Cornell University director of risk management, said in a statement. “Showing the Shots Fired video to our employees is one of the best things we can do. Every employee that has viewed it says there should be mandatory viewing for every student, staff member and faculty member.”

This article was very interesting to me, so I wanted to research it further and find out more about the shots fired video. I did my research and found that it is done by a company called OPSGEAR that is out of Salt lake city, Utah. I found a trailer for the video “Shots Fired” and wanted to show it here on the blog. The full video can purchased for $17.99 off of the OPSGEAR website.

Well today Al-Qaeda’s number 3 guy, Abu Laith al-Libi went down in the books. He was killed in Pakistan, the full details have not come in as of yet, but new details, are saying that he was killed by a drone missile. They are saying that al-Libi was the third ranking official for Al-Qaeda.

Abu Laith al-Libi was involved in many different conspiracy’s including, the February 2007 bombing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during the time that Dick Cheney was in the country. He is behind the plotting of multiple attacks on the US, and its forces, as well as afghan officials.

So after the events of the day this has got to be stirring some emotions, in the administration of Al-Qaeda. It would be the equivalent of a member of the presidential administration being taken out, which should cause some major chaos for Al-Qaeda.

This would be a prime time to keep a major outlook on the number one man who I would imagine would take one of two steps. One he either bunkers down deep and lays low to make sure that he cannot be found, to keep out of the reach of our intelligence, or any intelligence for that matter. The second approach that I could see them taking would be for him to keep moving constantly, so that we are always hours behind him, but never catch up.

There is many different tactics that can be taken into consideration, our job would be to find out which one and focus on it. To be able to catch number one would be an extreme increase in comfort, and would put a calming feeling in most, but will not be the end of Al-Qaeda. I would imagine that resources are already being put in place, to replace the fallen member today. Until the complete Al-Qaeda is dissolved, we will not be at peace, nor will the citizen’s of Afghanistan.

Yesterday I was at work, just typing along helping customers, when I got a message from a co-worker. The message started blinking I opened it up and the content said “hey isn’t this you, and it showed a jpeg file from Photoshare. The message being from a trusted co-worker I clicked on the file to open it, and all HELL broke lose.

Symantec freaked out and told me that it had detected multiple Trojan Horses. Immediately after I clicked on it, I saw my email address I knew exactly what I had done. It spread throughout our entire coporation, infecting hundreds of computer.

It initially started with a co-worker that got it from an outside source and worked its way through his contact list, to multiple people that eventually made it to me and I continued the cycle because I was not warned early enough. Still today we have not been able to get it off numerous computers including mine, that we are now not able to use until IT makes it over here to clear them off.

People out side of the company have told us that it took hours of work yesterday to get it off of theirs. I was told by a co-worker that she had sent it to her cousin that works for a different company, and it pretty much shut down operations for the day.

This is pretty much the series of events that happens. Someone on your contact list gets infected, after they had downloaded the executable file, it then attaches to the messaging program that you are using, and sends out a message with the file, to random contacts on your list posing as you.

So if you get a message from a trusted contact, that asks you “Hey isn’t this you?” don’t download it just close the screen, open up a knew one and ask that person if they just sent you a picture… mostly likely the won’t have.