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1)
According to educators surveyed by the Center on Education Policy,
Reading First is having a positive and significant impact on student
achievement.
9/2006 The Inspector General of the Department of Education says the
Bush administration's $4.8 billion dollar a year Reading First program
ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted and
the conflicts of interest . Four major issues that should alarm
educators and taxpayers alike. http://tinyurl.com/ewgqn

Check the Literacy statistics http://tinyurl.com/hhd2u
Americans are illiterate or functionally illiterate.
What are the Literacy Levels of American Adults
and What can so-called literate adults do?
http://tinyurl.com/nz73c


2)
If you can't read you won't vote.
Voter Education For Americans
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Statewide Databases of Registered Voters
Did you send in some money to someone's presidential campaign?
Did your neighbor? How much and to who? Type in your address
and see who your neighbors have donated money to.
Or type in someone's name to see who they contributed to.
http://tinyurl.com/h36mf

One Third of Nation's Voters To Face New Voting Equipment in 2006
Professors told members of Congress that current eVoting
technology can easily be compromised, possibly leading to
widespread voter fraud at a Congressional hearing on eVoting
software and machinery.

3)
ATM Maker Readies Anti-Hack Patch
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71832-0.html
The maker of a popular line of automated teller machines is planning a
software upgrade that forces operators to change a default
administrative pass code, after a surveillance tape showed a high-tech
thief successfully hacking one of its ATMs in a Virginia gas station.

4)
Twenty Top Women on Leadership includes Marissa
Mayer, Vice president of search products, Google:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870541/site/newsweek/page/5/

5)
Review: Security flaws place DHS inspectors' laptops at risk
http://tinyurl.com/fxkuu
The Homeland Security Department inspector general's office has not
taken the necessary steps to properly secure laptop computers holding
sensitive and classified information, a report released Monday stated.
The heavily redacted Aug. 8 report [1] from Frank Deffer, assistant
inspector general for information technology at DHS, said considerable
risks remain despite the many essential security controls in place,
including adequate physical security. Most examples of inconsistent
security practices were redacted.

Commerce Department loses 1,137 laptops
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4205692.html
WASHINGTON - The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers
since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said
Thursday night.
The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans,
lost 672 computers. Of those, 246 contained some personal data, the
department said in a statement. However, no personal information from
any of the missing computers has been known to have been improperly
used, the department said.


Purdue notifies alumni of 2000 computer breach
http://tinyurl.com/krd7s
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - People who attended Purdue University in 2000
were being notified of a security breach that might have resulted in
unauthorized access to identifying information, including Social
Security numbers.
University officials discovered the incident this month during a check
of a workstation in the chemistry department. The incident involved a
file dated Feb. 4, 2000, that contained Social Security numbers,
names, e-mail addresses and other information for nearly 2,500
students.


Davis seeks standard IT breach notification policy
http://tinyurl.com/kxr8x
Federal agencies have been losing laptop computers, including those with
personal data, without public notification and sometimes undetected by
the government.
Agencies are finding out now, and disclosing the information, because
House Government Reform Committee chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) requested
summaries of data breaches over the last several years.

UI warns research subjects of possible security breach
http://tinyurl.com/zslsx
The University of Iowa is contacting subjects in research studies
following attacks on a computer in which personal information about
those subjects was stored.
The computer, used by UI psychology professor Michael O'Hara and UI
psychiatry professor Scott Stuart, contained the Social Security numbers
of some 14,500 subjects who were participants in research studies on
maternal and child health from 1995 until the present.

GE: Laptop with data on 50,000 staffers stolen
http://tinyurl.com/luxn5
General Electric Co. said today that a company laptop containing the
names and Social Security numbers of 50,000 current and former employees
was stolen in early September.

St. Louis police lose crime files
http://tinyurl.com/h5svu
Police officers might be forced to dig out their
notes and re-create parts of a week's worth or more of reports on
crime and traffic crashes after the department's computer system
crashed.
The worst-case scenario is that the narrative portions of as many as
6,000 records may be missing, said Barbara Wright, executive director
of planning and technology for the department.


6)
Red alert on Web 2.0 Security
http://tinyurl.com/kgf57
One by one internet sites and major portals continue to upgrade their
sites with latest trend, web 2.0. But according to the experts, web 2.0
has many security vulnerabilities.
On the 18th, Daum Communications (Korea's second largest Internet firm
after NHN) introduced its AJAX based new homepage with improved UI (User
Interface), personalized oriented services. Once the users are logged
in, the newly designed start page enables checking e-mails, updates from
blog and cafe a breeze, all without having to go to different pages.

Hackers: Firefox has JavaScript flaw
http://tinyurl.com/jqcgm
Mozilla is investigating claims that its Firefox browser is vulnerable
to a zero-day attack. The hackers claim they know of about
30 unpatched Firefox flaws. They don't plan to disclose them,
instead holding on to the bugs.


7)
By the year 2020, technologies like virtual reality will come of
age, and snazzy tools like "smart agents" -- which scour the Web
on behalf of their human controllers -- will be standard. But Web
users will find their privacy eroding, and computer junkies will
be more prone than ever to technology addiction, say a panel of
experts interviewed by Elon University and the Pew Internet &
American Life Project.

Understand The Past of Internet II
http://tinyurl.com/oq9em
to Understand The Future of the Internet II
http://tinyurl.com/rf6of


8)
Cybersecurity chief quits after unusual contract expires
http://tinyurl.com/fdmjq
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief, who
worked under an unusual agreement with a private university that does
extensive business with the office he manages, is leaving his job.
Donald ``Andy'' Purdy Jr. will step down as acting director of the
National Cyber Security Division, part of the Department of Homeland
Security. Under the contract, the government paid Purdy $245,481
in salary and benefits each year, not including travel reimbursements;
Carnegie Mellon paid him an additional
$43,320 a year. His contract drew congressional scrutiny after The Associated Press
reported in June that Purdy's cybersecurity division has paid Carnegie
Mellon $19 million in contracts this year, almost one-fifth the unit's
total budget.

8)
Microsoft sues over source code theft
http://tinyurl.com/qnmbt
Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who
broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery
developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code.
For more than a month, the Redmond, Wash., company has been combating a
program released online called FairUse4WM, which successfully stripped
anticopying guards from songs downloaded through subscription media
services such as Napster or Yahoo Music.

9)
Some States collect details on state colleges, information on how to apply, and links
to aid programs and state-sponsored scholarships.
Find them here http://tinyurl.com/jj3mg

10)
Higher Ed Intellectual Content
Find out who owns the IP the professor or the college?
http://tinyurl.com/l7rfp

11)
U.S. joins European cybercrime convention
http://tinyurl.com/ewvc6
The U.S. government has embraced European legislation meant to help
the global fight against cybercrime. The Council of Europe Convention
on Cybercrime calls on countries to coordinate international law to
investigate and prosecute online criminal activity. The convention has
now been signed by 43 EU member states and 15 other parties, including
the U.S. It will come into U.S. law on Jan. 1.

12)
Pick-A-Prof
http://www.pickaprof.com/
a company that publishes online reviews of faculty members,
has been tussling with universities as it seeks to obtain the
grading histories of their professors.
And the company seems to be winning, with the University of
California agreeing recently to hand over such records.


13)
Hackers invited to break the security on $100 laptops
http://tinyurl.com/es957

14)
Halloween Songs, Music, tradition just in time Resources
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