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Thursday | January 16, 2025

What’s Happening to TikTok? Cybersecurity Instructor Has Answers

The future of the social media platform TikTok is changing by the day. However, unless the U.S. Supreme Court overturns a proposed ban, or there is other federal intervention, the platform will go dark for 170 million US users on January 19. Under federal legislation approved last spring, TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance was ordered

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Monday | April 24, 2023

The Intrigue of Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Specialist program creates ‘turnkey’ graduates It involves mystery. Fascination. And a healthy dose of suspicion. Those are just a few of the qualities that have attracted students Kim Hinson and Bhuwan Tiwari to Cybersecurity at Fox Valley Technical College. IN PHOTO (l-r): Kim Hinson, Bhuwan Twari and instructor Joe Wetzel in the FVTC Cybersecurity Command

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Friday | December 9, 2022

Caution Over TikTok: FVTC Instructor Explains Why

Around the country, lawmakers are sounding an alarm about the use of the social media platform TikTok. Just this week, Gov. Tony Evers was urged by U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher to ban TikTok from Wisconsin government devices. While the app is widely used to share funny dance videos and cooking tutorials, Joe Wetzel, department chair