Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Headlines and Resources 5/11/06

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1)
Schrenko pleads guilty
http://tinyurl.com/jlnut
Former State School Superintendent Linda Schrenko pleaded
guilty this morning to defrauding the government and money laundering.
She has been sentenced to eight years in prison and is waiving her right
to appeal. She faced a maximum 25 years on the charges.
Part of her sentence requires her to participate with the government in
the prosecution of her co-defendants, A. Stephan Botes and Peter Steyn,
and hand over any evidence against them. She will also be required
to make full restitution, regardless of her finances.

( I originally read about this when clicking around on my News page
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/News/)

2)
12 boys accused in sexual assault of second-grader
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14538658.htm
ST. LOUIS - Twelve boys in the first and second grade at a
St. Louis elementary school are accused of sexually assaulting
a second-grade girl during recess, authorities said Tuesday.
One teacher who was supposed to be supervising the recess has
been fired, and another suspended with pay, St. Louis schools
superintendent Creg Williams said. Ten of the boys, ages 6 to 8,
were suspended for the rest of the school year, and the other two
received five-day in-school suspensions.

3)
If you are a primary school educator, it's not too late to join
A Dance With the Butterflies.
<http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/butterflies/index.htm>http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/butterflies/index.htm

4)
UK hackers condemn McKinnon trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4984132.stm
The UK's hacking community has strongly criticised how fellow hacker
Gary McKinnon has been treated.
Accused of hacking into US military computer networks, Mr McKinnon
this week is expected to find out if he is to be extradited for trial
in the US.
British hackers say he is being made an example of to serve political
ends rather than improve computer security.

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Educational CyberPlayGround
Admins, Parents & Teachers Learn How to Keep Your Child
Safe on the Interent -- Trouble Areas for Kids

Find out what your kids have put up online, their names,
address, pictures, what they think. This needs to be
supervised and you won't be able to keep up with
what is going on here. Chat Rooms, Blogs, Instant
Messaging, IRC, Newsgroups - they don't understand
that they have gone public and have lost their privacy.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html
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5)
Congress shaping telecom law in private
Real work will be done in conference committee, where the public has no
influence but lobbyists do.
<http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/ technology/05/7telecom.html>

6)
Bush challenges hundreds of laws President cites powers of his office
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/>
WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to
disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting
that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress
when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and
regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that
Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle- blower"
protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards
against political interference in federally funded research.
"... Far more than any predecessor, Bush has been aggressive about
declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws -- many of which he
says infringe on power he believes the Constitution assigns to him
alone as the head of the executive branch or the commander in chief
of the military. ..."

7)
C-Span Sends Take-Downs to YouTube, Allows Google (after $$$)
<http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=324288> (with links)
C-Span, the nonprofit network that first showed Mr. Colbert's speech,
wrote letters to the video sites YouTube.com and ifilm.com, demanding
that the clips of the speech be taken off their Web
sites.

8)
Nevada's cyber-security chief charged with embezzlement
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/may/06/050610367.html

9)
Museum unscrambles secret agency's past
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/09/inside_nsa/
Inside the NSA A few of us got through the metal detectors before the
National Security Agency (NSA) realised we were in the wrong place. We
had arrived, expunged of all electronic devices from mobile phones to
cameras, at the Visitors' Centre, a security outpost for visiting
security personnel, instead of the National Cryptologic Museum 370
metres away by eagle. Oops.
There was a time when the very existence of the National Security
Agency was completely secret. Many of the sort of people who are
interested in it (such as this crowd from the annual Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy conference) are, therefore, somewhat surprised by
the idea that it has a cryptologic museum.

10)
Utility may face investigation for sale of unscrubbed drives
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000333>
State and federal regulatory agencies have not yet determined whether
Idaho Power faces any penalties after a salvage operator offered
unscrubbed hard disk drives for sale on eBay Inc.'s auction Web site.

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11)
Windows, Exchange flaws patched
http://news.com.com/Windows%2C+Exchange+flaws+patched/2100-7350_3-6070350.html
Microsoft on Tuesday released three security updates, two of which
address critical flaws in its Exchange e-mail server and third-party
software in Windows.
Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Calendar and Adobe's
Macromedia Flash Player in Windows can lead to a remote execution of
code on a user's system, according to Microsoft's security bulletins.
The software giant also issued a "moderate" update for flaws in
Windows, according to the software giant's bulletin. A malicious
attacker could launch a denial-of-service attack by sending a
specially crafted network message through the system to exploit the
flaw.

12)
"Sounding Off to Support Net Neutrality"
Kojo Nnamdi apublic-radio program proponents of
network neutrality voiced their concerns about the prospects of a
"two-tiered Internet." Edward W. Felten, a professor of computer
science and public affairs at Princeton University, and Gigi B.
Sohn, president of an advocacy group called Public Knowledge,
both appeared on the program [listen]
http://www.wamu.org/programs/kn/06/05/09.php#10817
Net Neutrality
21ST CENTURY LINGUISTIC RIGHTS
ACCESS AND YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW.
What is network neutrality and why should you care?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/technology/gap.html

13)
RFID Hacking Underground
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/rfid.html?pg=2&topic=rfid&topic_set=>
But hundreds of libraries have deployed the tags.
According to Mussche, Libramation has sold 5 million
RFID tags in a "convenient" unlocked state.

14)
ICANN rejects .xxx domain
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=1947950

15)
Spot a Bug, Go to Jail
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/circuitcourt/0,70857-0.html
By Jennifer Granick
May, 10, 2006
A new federal prosecution again raises the issue of whether computer
security experts must fear prison time for investigating and reporting
vulnerabilities.
On April 28, 2006, Eric McCarty was arraigned in U.S. District Court
in Los Angeles. McCarty is a professional computer security consultant
who noticed that there was a problem with the way the University of
Southern California had constructed its web page for online
applications. A database programming error allowed outsiders to obtain
applicants' personal information, including Social Security numbers.
For proof, the man copied seven applicants' personal records and
anonymously sent them to a reporter for SecurityFocus. The journalist
notified the school, the school fixed the problem, and the reporter
wrote an article about it.The incident might have ended there, but didn't.

16)
Voting glitch said to be 'dangerous'
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_3804675
Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and
limit the risk from a "dangerous" security hole found in Diebold
Election Systems Inc.'s ATM-like touch-screen voting machines.
Armed with a little basic knowledge of Diebold voting systems and a
standard component available at any computer store, someone with a
minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen could load virtually
any software into the machine and disable it, redistribute votes or
alter its performance in myriad ways.
VOTER EDUCATION
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/vote.html

17)
Alleged hacker can be extradited
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Britain_US_Hacker.html
LONDON -- A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be
extradited to the United States to face charges in the largest attack
on U.S. government computer networks - including Army, Air Force, Navy
and NASA systems.

18)
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ALL HAVE LANGUAGE - LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
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