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Greetings,

This is the first NetHappenings Headlines and Resources for the 2006
new school year. I hope you enjoyed your summer vacation!!! The
following happened over the June through August summer vacation but I
thought important enough to share with you. September will follow.


<Karen>

1)
Computer Trends
By 2010 the Time Teens Spend With Digital Will Be 80 Percent
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/trends.html
The 44 Hour Day: "Multitasking aided by technology extends most
people's day by several hours. The average day now amounts to 43
hours' worth of activities. In an early Yahoo study that looked at
women, an average day equaled 38 hours of activity. Activities include
sleeping; working; commuting; and technology and media-based
activities, such as e-mailing; using an MP3 player; text messaging;
and watching TV." http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623530


2)
The Next Voting Debacle?
Database problems may disqualify legitimate voters in upcoming U.S. elections
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4663
The Help America Vote Act of 2002, or HAVA, has garnered most of its
notoriety because it required election officials throughout the
United States to replace old paper-based voting machines with
controversial new electronic equipment by 2004. But there are other
provisions in the law that took effect only in January 2006, and
these are quietly creating their own potential for disrupting
elections this November-including the 468 House and Senate contests
that will determine control of Congress.
The new HAVA rules concern the databases that contain the voter
rolls-and in 49 of the 50 states, if you are not on the rolls, you
can't vote. Elections have often turned on the question of who gets
to vote and who does not. This time around, voter eligibility will
depend in large part on the contents of a number of databases, most
of which have been in existence for less than a year and some of
which have not been constructed in accord with the best practices of
the database industry. <more>


3)
First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In
Young Children
Researchers have found the first evidence that young children who take
music lessons show different brain development and improved memory
over the course of a year compared to children who do not receive
musical training. The findings, publishedin the online edition of the
journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of
musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to
those of the untrained children, but also that the training improves
their memory as well. After one year the musically trained children
performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general
intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial
processing, mathematics and IQ.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musicsmart.html


4)
MarketingSherpa.com interviewed 3,944 marketers on what's working in
Search Engine Markting (SEM) for their annual report on the topic.
Here's a downloadable (free) excerpt: SEO TOOLS http://tinyurl.com/jylqc


5)
Teen victimized in Web attack
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/BIZ04/608220342
ROCHESTER HILLS -- A 33-year-old man was arrested Monday, accused of
extorting nude photographs and videos from a Rochester Hills teenager by
convincing her he had hacked into her computer and could ruin her
parents' credit rating, authorities say. The scheme involved computer
transmissions made in Dubai and Germany and "literally there could be
victims around the world."

Real-world risks in the virtual universe of its games.
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15444687.htm>

"Internet Addiction Disorder," is explained by anthropologist Stephen
Juan at the University of Sydney.
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/22/the_odd_body_internet_addiction/>.



6)
Wi-Fi drivers open laptops to hackers
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsID=6272
Hackers can take control of laptops by Wi-Fi, even when the user is
not connected to a wireless LAN, according to security researchers.


7)
CDC releases SCATTERCHAT program
http://tinyurl.com/eh6se
ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical
human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate
securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is
also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where
privacy is desired.

8)
Study: Most Technology Companies Have Data Losses
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1979924,00.asp
Over half of all companies doing business in the technology, media and
telecommunications sectors have experienced data breaches that
potentially exposed their intellectual property or customer
information, a new research report shows.

9)
Is it Legal to Teach a Course on Computer Hacking?
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20060724.html
By ANITA RAMASASTRY July 24, 2006
In Dundee, Scotland, Abertay University recently made headlines with
the announcement that it is offering a degree in computer hacking! For
some, this is like teaching a class in safecracking or burglary. But
others strenuously disagree.
The degree program is meant to teach "ethical" hacking - to educate
white-hat hackers. Indeed, its promotional literature states "it takes
a thief to catch a thief." Put another way, in order to know how to
combat the enemy, you need to know how the enemy operates. No wonder,
then, that consulting firms and companies train their own computer
professionals about hacking.
 The degree program nevertheless poses a significant risk: What if a
black-hat hacker pretends to be a white-hat hacker, and signs up? The
University has promised to work with the U.K. government to screen
potential students to keep out black-hat hackers. But such screening
will surely be imperfect. And some students may become black-hat
hackers only after graduation. Still others may be tempted to commit
some unauthorized or harmful hacking just for the fun of it.
Ethical Hacking http://tinyurl.com/fvjjr

10)
People-chipping tech cloned by hackers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/25/verichip_cloned/
By John Leyden 25th July 2006
Hackers demonstrated how to clone a copy of an human-implanted RFID
chip at a hacking conference this week. The demonstration goes against
claims from people-chipping firm VeriChip that its technology, the
subject of the experiment, can uniquely identify an individual.
By cloning a chip it would be possible to assume someone's identity,
at least in situations where VeriChip devices are used as the sole
means of identification.

11)
Crypto malware close to being 'uncrackable'
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBas
ic&articleId=9001997>
By John E. Dunn TechWorld.com July 25, 2006
File-encrypting Trojans are becoming so complex that the security
companies could soon be powerless to reverse their effects, a new
report from Kaspersky Lab has said.
The report notes the rapid evolution of the public key encryption used
by one family of crypto malware, Gpcode, which went from using 56-bit
to 660-bit RSA in a matter of weeks.
Commonly termed "ransomware," Trojans that encrypt data files on a
user's PC before demanding a payment in return for supplying the key
to unlock the files, have come from nowhere in recent months to become
a measurable problem.

12)
82.6% of Laptops Made in China July 26, 2006
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17724&hed=82.6%25+of+Laptops+
Made+in+China
Factories in or near Shanghai make nearly 83 percent of the worldÂ?s
portable computers, and that figure is expected to increase within a
couple of years.
Jeffrey Wu, an analyst from research firm iSuppli, said on Wednesday the
number of notebooks made in that region of China will increase from 82.6
percent in 2005 to more than 90 percent by 2008.
In addition, global laptop shipments will grow to 141.4 million units in
2010 from 61.9 million in 2005. That means 51.13 million portable
computers shipped in 2005 came out of China, and 127.26 million in 2010
will have been made there.

13)
 Tech Execs Charged With Industrial Espionage July 28,2006
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200607/200607280015.html
Three former executives with a technology firm and a university professor
have been charged with industrial espionage over their attempt to steal
their employer's non-memory chip technology and set up on their own in
China. The four were caught by prosecutors with the help of the National
Intelligence Service.
Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office indicted the former executives,
one of them identified as Park (42) and the academic identified as Kwak
(56), an outside director on the electronic firm's board, with industrial
espionage. Park is accused of conspiring with his fellow executives to
pirate three of the company's non-memory chip products in China at far
lower prices and sell them there, and stealing circuit diagrams and chip
design files. They then informed the academic, who assisted them in
stealing the technology and became a co-founder and CEO of the Chinese
pirate operation.
The four allegedly completed the circuit plans based on their theft last
September, and the Chinese firm got as far as producing 12 wafers -- from
which chips are cut - by the time the operation was uncovered.  Estimated
damage if mass production had gone under way was W235 billion
(US $1=W954), prosecutors said.


14)
Hackers Clone E-Passports
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71521-0.html
By Kim Zetter Aug, 03, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- A German computer security consultant has shown that he can
clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries
are beginning to distribute this year.
The controversial e-passports contain radio frequency ID, or RFID, chips
that the U.S. State Department and others say will help thwart document
forgery. But Lukas Grunwald, a security consultant with DN-Systems in
Germany and an RFID expert, says the data in the chips is easy to copy.
"The whole passport design is totally brain damaged," Grunwald says.
"From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of
money. They're not increasing security at all."


15)
Blog feeds may carry security risk - August 4, 2006
http://news.com.com/Blog+feeds+may+carry+security+risk/2100-1002_3-6102171.html
LAS VEGAS -- Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose
computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warns.

Rootkit Removal Tools and Suggestions
http://tinyurl.com/k63c6

16)
Cybercrooks add Ajax coding to bag of hacking tricks 8/4/2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2006-08-04-
ajax-attack-usat_x.htm
LAS VEGAS - The hot new technology behind slick Web pages has suddenly
become the hot new tool for cybercriminals.
The technology, Ajax coding and Web tools, enables popular websites such
as Google Maps (GOOG) and MySpace.com (NWS) to come alive. It is also the
technology behind Windows Live, the slate of cutting edge online services
Microsoft has begun testing.

17)
College signs deal with Ruckus for Music Download
http://tinyurl.com/92jcm
Ruckus Network, a company that offers legal music and movie downloads
to college students, has named a new chief executive
officer -- Michael Bebel, formerly the president and chief operating
officer of Ruckus's adversary, Napster. Mr. Bebel, by contrast, is
something of a music-industry insider: He has held senior positions at
Universal Studios and Pressplay, a digital-music venture created by
Universal and Sony.

18)
RIAA sues LimeWire and the people using it. 8/7/06
http://tinyurl.com/zrq62

Pay Us Off, Dead Man
The Recording Industry Association of America seemed to hit the bad-PR
jackpot months ago, when an official with the trade group allegedly
suggested that a student drop out of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to settle an antipiracy lawsuit. The student wrote about
the incident in The Tech,
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N15/RIAA1506.html
MIT?s student newspaper­and her account was gobbled up by bloggers and
peer-to-peer advocates who were only too happy to bash the RIAA for
its apparent insensitivity.
Now, though, the trade group may have done itself one better. After
the death of the defendant in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, a
run-of-the-mill antipiracy suit, industry lawyers have evidently moved
to stay the case for 60 days before they start taking depositions of
the defendant?s children.
The motion­reported in Recording Industry vs. the People,
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/08/riaa-wants-to-de
pose-dead-defendants.html
a blog run by lawyers who have opposed the RIAA­is, at the very least,
another piece of questionable public relations from a trade group that
doesn?t exactly seem to have a sensitive touch. A number of popular
Web sites, including Ars Technica, Boing Boing, and Slashdot, have
already jumped on the story, and commenters on those sites haven?t
exactly rushed to the RIAA?s defense.



Saturday, August 12, 2006

RIAA to grieving family: We depose your children in 60 days
The RIAA brought a file-sharing lawsuit against a guy who died; they
offered the departed's family a 60-day grieving period before they
began to depose his children for the suit against his estate.
3. Plaintiffs do not believe it appropriate to discuss a resolution of
the case with the family so close to Mr. Scantlebury?s passing.
Plaintiffs therefore request a stay of 60 days to allow the family
additional time to grieve.
4. In the event the parties do not reach a resolution with Mr.
Scantlebury?s estate or the other family members involved, Plaintiffs
anticipate amending the complaint following depositions of members of
Mr. Scantlebury?s family.

19)
Finally Crypto available for VOIP
http://tinyurl.com/j6qws

20)
Most Damaging Attacks Rely On Stolen Log-ins
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192300841
More than 8 out of every 10 computer attacks against businesses could be
stopped if enterprises checked the identity of not only the user, but
also the machine logging onto its network, a report released Monday
claimed. Learn How.

21)
Dropload
http://www.dropload.com/
Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them
picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are
sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are
removed from the system after 7 days.

22)
Eluta
http://www.eluta.ca/
Eluta lets job-seekers search the career websites of more than 71,000
employers across Canada directly.

23)
College Search, and Apply for Scholarships Online Tool
http://tinyurl.com/jj3mg

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