¤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/ Educatonal 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 Happy Reading for today, <Karen> (^..^) 1) Banking on Security http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=111503&WT.svl=column1_1 We were recently hired by a regional bank to assess its security. When negotiating the services agreement with the bank president we agreed to perform the standard network security penetration testing, but he insisted we also test the security awareness of the bank staff. What he really wanted to discover was whether employees have become complacent in verifying credentials of the customers, but more importantly checking out the people who service the bank's needs. The bank had recently outsourced its IT functions, and although they were promised a dedicated technician by the outsourcing firm, the revolving door of technicians coming and going had become the standard. Kids are galloping ahead in their Digitally enabled informal learning, music, video, photos and text on connected devices; while their formal school education isn't much different from their parents. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/HowToIntegrateTech.html 2) YouTube's coming to a smartphone near you. It just struck a deal with Verizon http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclawdeals.html 3) Chinese hackers prompt Navy college site closure http://washingtontimes.com/national/20061130-103049-5042r.htm Chinese computer hackers penetrated the Naval War College network earlier this month, forcing security authorities to shut down all e-mail and official computer network work at the Navy's school for senior officers. 4) About Viral Marketing Nowadays. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/ViralMarketing.html 5) Information about military movements in Iraq ends up on Internet http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41855 NAHA, Okinawa Japanese officials confirmed Thursday that information about U.S. and coalition military movements in Iraq were broadcast by mistake on the Internet. 6) PDFs open critical hole in Internet Explorer http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/adobe_vuln/ A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software which affects Internet Explorer users. As well as causing crashes, the frailty could allow a botnet to take control of the whole computer when a PDF is opened within Explorer. The hole is present in Acrobat Standard and Professional versions 7.0.0 to 7.0.8, and Adobe Reader 7.0.0 to 7.0.8. Only Microsoft's browser is vulnerable. Adobe's programmers are working on a patch, which should be available on its support site soon. In the meantime, deleting AcroPDF.dll from the will prevent Explorer from opening PDFs in the browser window. Adobe's advisory is here [1]. [1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html 7) IT Caught Off Guard by Flu Pandemic Warning Call to make quarantine preparations a priority is 'eye-opener' for execs http://tinyurl.com/ymlmz4 Real Disaster Plan http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster.html 8) China a major cyberthreat, commission warns http://www.fcw.com/article96975-12-01-06-Web China is fielding information warfare units and developing anti-satellite capabilities aimed at countering U.S. military technology, according to a U.S. congressional commission. China's cyberwarfare strategy has switched from a defensive to an offensive posture, with the goal of attacking enemy networks and denying adversaries access to information, said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) [1] in its annual report, released Nov. 16. Chinese strategy focuses on U.S. systems that perform command and control or deliver precision weapons, the report states. 9) Romanian indicted after NASA, navy computers hacked http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/01/hacker-indicted.html A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the navy nearly $1.5 million US. 10) Vista's image-based install is great for hackers http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36134 USERS HOPING for pirated copies of Vole's latest operating system Vista might find themselves downloading some heavy duty malware. In an interview with APC Magazine, a Volish technology specialist John Pritchard said that the installation process and the ease with which administrators can pre-install software into a Vista install DVD could be to blame. Pritchard said that pirated copies of Vista could easily come with malware preinstalled. 11) Three guilty of identity fraud which netted millions http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1961441,00.html On the eve of "Black Thursday", the Russian banks' liquidity crisis of August 1995, Anton Dolgov, the head of the Moskovsky Gorodskoi Bank, disappeared leaving debts of around $100m. Yesterday, after hiding behind dozens of aliases, Dolgov stood in the dock of a London court as the head of an international identity theft gang that had defrauded thousands of account holders out of millions of pounds. 12) TSA has started "test" deployments of human body x-ray backscatter systems at U.S. airports. http://tinyurl.com/w7lfd TSA claims that they now blur the "naughty bits" of the images, as if that could really make the system any less intrusive. But just for chuckles, let's not forget the June 2003 backscatter x-ray demo by Susan Hallowell, the director of the TSA's security laboratory, featuring her with and without her clothing: http://tinyurl.com/yn2z48 13) Feds rate travelers for terrorism http://tinyurl.com/yd4tre "Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. "The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years. "Sobel said in the interview the government notice also raises the possibility that faulty risk assessments could cost innocent people jobs in shipping or travel, government contracts, licenses or other benefits." 14) Google The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search2.html Google won't discuss specifically how it detects bad clicks. 15) Drawing Women http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 16) Scholarships for Women in IT Announcement on-line application http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/cwit_scholars.html Ms. Amera Bilal Director, University Initiatives Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle, ITE 409 Baltimore, MD 21250 Phone:410-455-8076 Fax:410-455-8931 abilal@xxxxxxxx www.umbc.edu/cwit I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland Baltimore County has significantly increased scholarship funding for CWIT Scholars for the upcoming class. The results are clear; young women and men who enroll in IT or engineering at UMBC and are selected as CWIT Scholars are retained to graduation (94%) and become the leaders on the campus and in their jobs upon graduation! CWIT's scholars program primarily targets freshmen women for enrollment, but young men who are interested in supporting the mission of CWIT are also welcomed. If you know someone who is graduating from high school this year and is interested in majoring in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering and would like to become a CWIT Scholar, which provides scholarship funding, academic support, and leadership development activities, please consider joining us for a special presentation during the final UMBC Visit Day on Monday, December 4th, 2006. This full day program will include an informative joint presentation from the specialty scholarship programs focused on science, technology, and math; campus tours; financial aid workshops and classroom visits; and a lunch hour open house at which you can learn more about what UMBC has to offer you or your prospective student. To register: http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad/v_openhouse.html 17) Learn the Difference between Gossip and Rumors. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Folktales.html 18) Idealware.org is software for NonProfits 19) A Short Boogie Woogie History http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/video_favsMusicBoogie.html 20) What is the correlation between rhyming and reading? Answer: Rhythmic Synchrony governs conversation, and is part of life from infancy to old age. Tempos may vary from culture to culture and person to person but folks who successfully relate manage to stay in sync. Speech and Rhythm Experts http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch4.asp Reading and Music http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch5.asp Bckg. How to begin http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch6.asp Native languages influence the way people group non-language sounds into rhythms. Exposure to certain patterns of speech can influence one's perceptions of musical rhythms. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/originvocal.html Linguistics Speech and Song http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/iecspeechandsong.html National Children's Folksong Repository http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/ Adults and Kids are invited to participate: An historic electronic online archive of children's folk songs. A public folklore project built by the citizens of the United Statesand territories. Watch the streaming video. 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