In his latest Baltimore Sun opinion column, political science professor Thomas Schaller suggests that persistent and growing dependence on federal subsidies like food stamps, unemployment insurance and Medicaid “implies that economic inequality is worsening” in the U.S., in contrast to “preposterous warnings about creeping socialism.” Schaller cites data indicating that between 2009 and 2011 overall household incomes grew by 14%, but while wealth rose by 21% for the wealthiest 13% of Americans, it actually declined for every other wealth category in the bottom 87%.

In time for Labor Day, the New Republic has highlighted another of Schaller’s Baltimore Sun columns, this one on the discrepancy between increases in U.S. worker productivity and flat-lined compensation.

“First The New York Times; now the Canton Kayak Club?

The website for the group of urban paddling enthusiasts was the victim of an apparent hacking Wednesday and Thursday, bearing an image of a man on a horse with a spear and the messages “NO WAR!” and “All Hail the Islamic world, we’re here!,” wrote Scott Dance of the Baltimore Sun.

Dance interviewed UMBC’s Rick Forno for the piece. These days cybersecurity is more than just technology.

“In cyber security nowadays having a good situational awareness of world events is crucial,” said Rick Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Center for Cybersecurity.”

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/technology/blog/bs-bz-canton-kayak-club-website-hacked,0,5296086.story#ixzz2dr99CXuU

Forno was also recently interviewed by SpiderOak University about the topic of cybersecurity.