¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,ø¤º Please link to the Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com Add your SCHOOL OR SCHOOL DISTRICT URL http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/ Please Share and Add Your Song http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ncfr/ Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993 ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,ø¤º Greetings, Happy Reading <Karen> 1) Teachers @ Risk http://tinyurl.com/3yxexm 13-year old students posted classroom video taken with a cellphone of their teacher yelling at a fellow student on YouTube. 2) Ways they cheat in class using the cell phone. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html 3) Trivia Question :-) Who was the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer? Answer http://tinyurl.com/254qgj 4) Finding Vista's flaws http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16625572.htm Microsoft says the new Vista computer operating system is the most secure Windows yet. But in its millions of lines of complex computer code, there are bound to be at least a few holes. 5) New Zero-Day Threat Excels http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2090525,00.asp Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities are increasingly so commonplace, the risk is lost with the message. On Feb. 2, Microsoft issued another security alert, this one for Excel, that largely went unnoticed. In its security bulletin, Microsoft warned that "other Office applications are potentially vulnerable" to the zero-day flaw. 6) Hackers break into CDC's Web site http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2007/02/04/0204cdchack.html Computer hackers tapped into a Web site at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week, planting a virus that has possibly infected computers used by people who visited the site, agency officials said. CDC's podcast site, www.cdc.gov/podcasts, which contains audio and video on a variety of public health topics, has been taken off the agency's Web site and is expected to be down for at least a few days. 7) NIST prepares to hash out new standard http://www.gcn.com/print/26_03/43075-1.html The National Institute of Standards and Technology will conduct a public competition to select new hashing algorithms for the Federal Information Processing Standard. 8) Chinese suspected of hacking into MoD networks http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=193442007 MINISTRY of Defence computer networks have been repeatedly penetrated by hackers, raising fears that sensitive military information could have been obtained by foreign powers. 9) New Word "lifelogging" Yeah, people actually continually recording EVERYTHING they do, see and say. (tsk tsk - very sad for us - so big brother) 10) Slacker or hacker? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/06/insider_threat/ The vast majority of insider IT sabotage is carried out by employees - or ex-employees - who have already showed signs of concerning behaviour such as tardiness, truancy, arguing with colleagues, and poor job performance, according to US researchers. 11) NSA employee charged with giving wife $340,000 contract http://tinyurl.com/ynvbpd BALTIMORE - An NSA employee is accused of giving his wife's company a $340,000 contract for work on a computer security exercise he directed, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Tuesday. Wayne J. Schepens, 37, of Severna Park is scheduled for an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court on the conflict of interest charge. Schepens faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, said Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office. Schepens co-created the Cyber Defense Exercise in 2000 for the National Security Agency, the secretive Department of Defense spy agency. The annual competition involved teams from participating military academies who tried to protect their computer networks from attacks by teams of hackers, generally NSA employees and military reservists, according to court documents. 12) Hackers attack key Net traffic computers http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D8N4IR301.htm 13) U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling 05 Feb 2007 http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, officials said, a vast expansion of DNA gathering. The new forensic DNA sampling was authorized by Congress in a little-noticed amendment to a January 2006 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides protections and assistance for victims of sexual crimes. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/washington/05dna.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin> 14) What's Wrong With Vocational School? Too many Americans are going to college. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009535 The topic yesterday was education and children in the lower half of the intelligence distribution. Today I turn to the upper half, people with IQs of 100 or higher. Today's simple truth is that far too many of them are going to four-year colleges. 15) A Warning on Measuring Learning Outcomes http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/01/26/banta Among the recommendations contained in the report that Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education issued last September were these . . 16) The Bush Budget, 2008 http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/06/edbudget As promised, President Bush delivered a 2008 Education Department budget proposal on Monday that would increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4,600 in the coming fiscal year and to $5,400 by 2012. And as expected, he proposed doing so partly by reshuffling funds from several other grant programs for low-income students, and partly by further cutting into the profit margins of banks and guarantee agencies in the studentloan industry, drawing howls of protest from lobbyists for students and lenders alike.
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