¤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 All, Happy reading for today. best, <Karen> 1) National Bolsheviks ousted from Runet http://tinyurl.com/23mmda For several days now the National Bolsheviks web-page www.nbp-info.ru hasnt been operating. The Bolsheviks (or "limonovsti" as they call themselves) say the FSB is behind the attack. IT experts do not share the view. The website was hacked on February 21st and it is still out if service. Eduard Limonovs party representatives say a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) has been conducted by the FSB. They say the number of attacking computers exceeds 120 thousand. The partys spokesman Alexander Averin claims the queries to the server, which is in Germany, come from Russia and the neighboring countries, the Netherlands and South Korea. He added there had been no such massive attacks on a web resource so far. 2) Microsoft probes IE 7, Vista bug reports http://tinyurl.com/2h99md Microsoft is investigating two recently disclosed security vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, the company said Monday. The vulnerabilities aren't considered high-risk, yet they affect the latest releases of Microsoft's Web browser and operating system software. Microsoft has promoted the security of both IE 7 and Windows Vista. The flaws could let attackers get their hands on sensitive user information, security experts have warned. 3) The Power and Peril of praising your own kids http://tinyurl.com/3y7zud What do we make of a boy like Thomas? 4) How Language and communication evolved in humans. http://tinyurl.com/25mat4 5) Origin of English http://tinyurl.com/2ca5fs 6) US Cyber Storm will test NZ's national security http://tinyurl.com/27wuej New Zealand organisations will find their online defences tested for the first time in a huge international cyber-security exercise being coordinated by the US Department of Homeland Security next year. 7) FBI unsure if missing notebook PCs contain sensitive data http://tinyurl.com/2db4qg The FBI has reduced notebook PC losses by 312 percent since 2002, but the bureau has failed to adequately report whether stolen computers contain classified or sensitive data, the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General said in an audit report [1] last week. 8) New and Improved Oracle Exploits Coming at Black Hat http://tinyurl.com/2xbbgw Updated: Oracle's slated to be the whipping boy in two Oracle-specific Black Hat briefings and will be among the clump of databases faulted in one general database communication protocol weakness briefing. Expect at least one zero-day exploit and an entirely new class of attack technique, all with Oracle in their crosshairs. 9) What are your Fair Use Rights? http://tinyurl.com/2nnj6v Boucher and Doolittle Introduce the FAIR USE Act of 2007 What is Legal in the K12 Classroom. U. S. Copyright Law that addresses fair use. The bill (HR 1201), the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007, or Fair Use Act, would amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow librarians, archivists, and others to bypass copyright protections on digital content in certain circumstances. Among the supporters of the legislation are the American Library Association and the American Association of Law Libraries. 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Education Vendor Directory <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> -------- 10) SEC Sues Company For Using Hacked Information In Trades http://tinyurl.com/yv9ss7 Symantec and RealNetworks corporate press releases were among those accessed by Blue Bottle before they were made public and used to make insider trades, the agency claims. 11) Q&A: Reverse hacker describes ordeal http://tinyurl.com/2c7e6v A New Mexico jury recently awarded Shawn Carpenter $4.3 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer Sandia National Laboratories. The former network intrusion detection analyst was fired in January 2005 after he shared information relating to an internal network compromise with the FBI and the U.S. Army. Sandia alleged that Carpenter had inappropriately shared confidential information he had gathered in his role as a security analyst for the laboratory. 12) Report: VA funds wasted in data loss http://tinyurl.com/ypjj8w WASHINGTON - While the Department of Veterans Affairs reeled last year from the theft of a computer loaded with personal data on 26.5 million vets, VA officials wasted as much as $135,000 on a bungled analysis of the missing information. A report by the VA's inspector general is a tale of favoritism, a late-night contract award, inept contractor employees, expensive restaurant meals and a sabotaged office computer. 13) Lawsuits, patent claims silence Black Hat talk http://tinyurl.com/2xehrc RFID hacking demo pulled after HID threatens legal action Patently Bad Move Gags Critics http://tinyurl.com/2mdc8f Guess what? Radio frequency identification tags are insecure. But don't demonstrate the technology's problems at a security conference. If you do, HID Global, a manufacturer of access-control devices, might sue you for patent infringement. 14) About News Sniffer http://tinyurl.com/yukp5nThe News Sniffer project aims to monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias.
Latest articles, Latest revisions 15) Shop Class as Soulcraft http://tinyurl.com/l9exj Anyone in the market for a good used machine tool should talk to Noel Dempsey, a dealer in Richmond, Virginia. Noel's bustling warehouse is full of metal lathes, milling machines, and table saws, and it turns out that most of it is from schools. EBay is awash in such equipment, also from schools. It appears shop class is becoming a thing of the past, as educators prepare students to become "knowledge workers." 16) Apple plans to offer two iPhone models priced at $499 and $599. Apple Inc. predicted that 10 million customers will pay at least $499. The phones will only work on AT&T's wireless network. 17) IT employers cool on tech degrees http://tinyurl.com/2ff7gh 19) Academy Scotland News http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/natfundedprogs/AcademyScotlandNewsJan2007.pdfThe fifth edition of the Higher Education Academy's newsletter for the Scottish sector is now available.
20) Association for College Management http://www.acm.uk.com/ The Association for College Management is a TUC affiliated tradeunion and professional association which represents managers of post 16 education and training.
21) Association of Colleges http://www.aoc.co.uk/ "The Association of Colleges was created in 1996 as the singlevoice to promote the interests of further education colleges in England and Wales. The Association provides a broad range of services to its subscribers. It represents their interests locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Its management, split into various directorates, provides a pool of expertise on which the sector draws."
22) Business Podcast Directory http://www.ibizradio.com/ Business Podcast Directory organized by subject 23) Educational feeds directory http://www.educational-feeds.com/ RSS feeds in education. 24) How to get your credit card report repaired in 30 days. http://tinyurl.com/3xyley 25) What you can do to Save the Tazmanian Devil from extinction. http://tinyurl.com/3dzhe7 <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest
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