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10:00Cyber Threats

Some cyber security experts believe hackers may have caused the massive 2003 blackout in the Northeast.Two U.S. lawmakers recently alleged that Congressional computers were targeted by someone or some group from inside China. We talk about growing concerns over cyber attacks in the public and private sectors.

Guests

Paul Kurtz, cyber security consultant, formerly served as senior director, Office of Cyberspace Security at the National Security Council

Alan Paller, director of research, SANS Institute

Stephen Spoonamore, cyber security consultant

Congressman Jim Langevin, Rhode Island, D, 2nd District

11:00Readers' Review: "One Writer's Beginnings" by Eudora Welty

Please join Diane and her panel this month as they discuss Eudora Welty's memoir "One Writer's Beginning." Ms. Welty discusses growing up in the South and how her family and surroundings influenced her personality and writing.

Guests

Suzanne Marrs, Professor of English and Welty Foundation Scholar in Residence at Millsaps College. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Eudora Welty, including 'Eudora Welty: A Biography.'

Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."

E. Ethelbert Miller, poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, Board Chair of the Institute for Policy Study. And author of the forthcoming book "On Saturdays I Santana With You.”

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