¤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 Enjoy the news and resources for today. <Karen> 1) State seeks cyber sleuths http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/12/11/news/iq_11224417.txt In May, Las Vegas Metro received information from two children who claimed a live-in family friend was molesting them. Detectives were able to confirm the accusations and, in the process, found what is believed to be the largest collection of child pornography ever uncovered in the Las Vegas Valley. "There must be several hundred thousand, if not a million photos of child pornography," Metro Sgt. Leonard Marshall told a small group of federal, state and local law-enforcement officials in October. "We are still in the process of forensically examining the digital evidence." Nevada employs only one forensic computer analyst for the whole state. the state's seven-year-old Technological Crime Advisory Board has voted to push legislation authorizing the employment and training of at least five new computer forensic specialists. 2) Learn why the entire population of some cultures have perfect pitch and others cultures don't. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/perfectpitch.html 3) Teenager ran internet banking scam http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3896626a28,00.html A 16-year-old who police sent on a computer training course to improve his behaviour has admitted using a computer in an attempt to defraud banks of nearly $45,000. It is just six months since banking ombudsman Liz Brown said banks had been slow to introduce two-factor authentication measures to fight internet fraud. Police say he posted a computer virus on an internet message board and used it to capture details from people's personal computers. "They basically take control of your machine. They access your bank accounts but also steal your identity." 4) Teenagers are crazy. Teenagers and Brain Development. What Brains? They cannot process the consequences. That's why parents are legally responsible for what they do. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html 5) CIO: VA is working toward gold standard in IT security http://www.fcw.com/article97072-12-11-06-Web A new day is dawning at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said Bob Howard, the VAs assistant secretary of information and technology and chief information officer, explaining the departments major information technology reorganization and its plans to strengthen data security. Life changed big time, he said, in May, when a VA laptop computer and a hard-disk drive with about 26.5 million veterans personal records were stolen from the home of a department employee. It was a wake-up call for us and a wake-up call for all of government. Howard said the departments determination to become the gold standard of data security is on its way to becoming a reality. Were encrypting everything in sight, he said. 6) Top Ten Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online http://tinyurl.com/y9ad5z Can you use encryption too? http://tinyurl.com/y4b8wx E-mail has a lengthy afterlife http://tinyurl.com/tjvpg Don't ever put anything in an e-mail that you wouldn't want to read on the jumbotron at Times Square. http://tinyurl.com/y555kk 7) UCLA Major breach of 800,000 people's computer files!! [YIKES !!] http://tinyurl.com/vrqnd In what appears to be one of the largest computer security breaches ever at an American university, one or more hackers have gained access to a UCLA database containing personal information on about 800,000 of the university's current and former students, faculty and staff members, among others. UCLA officials said the attack on a central campus database exposed records containing the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates the key elements of identity theft for at least some of those affected. Comprehensive statistics on computer break-ins at colleges do not exist. But in the first six months of this year alone, there were at least 29 security failures at colleges nationwide, jeopardizing the records of 845,000 people. Both private and public institutions have been hit. In 2005, a database at USC was hacked, exposing the records of 270,000 individuals. UCLA has established a website to provide information and answer questions about the incident at http://www.identityalert.ucla.eduand a toll-free call center, (877) 533-8082. Petersen said that in a survey released by Educause in October, about a quarter of 400 colleges said that over the previous 12 months, they had experienced a security incident in which confidential information was compromised. [geeze can it be any worse? - karen] AND Boeing laptop stolen, putting 382,000 at risk for identity theft http://tinyurl.com/yxohb3 CHICAGO ? A Boeing Co. laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of 382,000 workers and retirees has been stolen, putting the employees at risk for identity theft and credit card fraud. The theft, which the company confirmed Tuesday, was the third such offense in over a year. Files on the computer also contained home addresses, phone numbers and birth dates. Some of the files listed salary information. 8) What to do If you suspect you're a victim of identity theft: Put a Fraud Elert on your credit card and a lot more quickly. http://tinyurl.com/yamw9e Contact the FBI http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/fbi.html 9) Intrusion Detection: Playing a New Role In Network Security http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2069358,00.asp Until 2003, the city operated its power grid, which supplies electricity to its population of more than 104,000, via a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network, a physically isolated local-area network that mirrored the grid itself. Since it was isolated, Jarvis and his team didn't have any intrusions or threats coming in or going out. That soon changed: To predict how much power would be available for consumption, the city needed to figure in weather conditions. That meant Burbank had to tie the SCADA network to the municipal network, which left the SCADA setup susceptible to attacks. 10) Double Trouble: Microsoft Confirms Another Word Zero-Day Flaw http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2071558,00.asp Microsoft's security response center has confirmed that a second zero-day vulnerability in its Word software program is being targeted by unknown attackers. The latest flaw comes just days after the software maker issued a security advisory to warn customers against opening Word documents from untrusted sources. The two vulnerabilities are entirely unrelated. According to a US-CERT advisory, the latest bug is a memory corruption issue that occurs when a Word file is rigged with malformed data structures. No other details were made available. Microsoft has not yet issued a formal prepatch advisory but, in a blog entry, Security Program Manager Scott Deacon listed affected software versions as Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003. He said Microsoft Word 2007 is not affected by the second vulnerability. 11) Winny inventor convicted / Fined 1.5 mil. yen over copyright infringement http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20061214TDY01004.htm http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20061214TDY02009.htm http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/20061214TDY04005.htm (the editorial is titled, "Winny ruling spotlights engineers' moral duties"). The Kyoto District Court on Wednesday convicted a 36-year-old former research associate of Tokyo University's graduate school for enabling users to violate the Copyright Law by developing and distributing the peer-to-peer file-sharing software Winny, fining him 1.5 million yen. The defendant, Isamu Kaneko, plans to appeal to a higher court. Presiding Judge Makoto Himuro said in his judgment: "[Kaneko] deserves criticism for his selfish and irresponsible attitude. He clearly knew [Winny] was being used to violate the law and allowed users to do so." 12) Public Education http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Public_Education.html P2P http://tinyurl.com/k63c6 13) Man in Germany stops Brazil robbery via Internet http://tinyurl.com/v9g2u 14) Webcam Search Engine http://tinyurl.com/y8rejj Camsterdam has categorized thousands of easy to look up live webcams, only the best listed in our top100 webcam directory. Internet Tools http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/tools.html 15) IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group http://tinyurl.com/slrvd IBM will launch an official group in January to deal with Second Life and other virtual realms from which the company hopes to profit. Virtual reality and other visual interface work is the next project on IBM's plate, Irving Wladawsky-Berger said in an interview at CNET's Second Life offices. Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, led the company's response to earlier technologies that rewrote the rules of the computing industry, such as e-commerce and Linux. "I have been playing a strong role in helping us start our 3D Internet and virtual-world efforts. We are launching a new EBO in this area in January--that is, an emerging business opportunity--much like we did with Linux and the grid," Wladawsky-Berger said Tuesday. IBM believes the virtual realm has potential for training, conferences and commerce, he said. Second Life, an online community run by a company called Linden Labs, is an electronic universe where people's virtual representations, called avatars, can chat, fly, teleport, browse stores and purchase goods. IBM has one public island on Second Life, a site named after and mimicking its Almaden Research Center near San Jose, Calif., but the company plans to open up 12 more by Monday. <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993 NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html Copyright FAIR USE Statements to be included when reproducing annotations from NetHappenings. The single phrase below is the copyright notice to be used when reproducing any portion of this report, in any format: EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND http://www.edu-cyberpg.com NetHappenings copyright <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>