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1)
White House accidentally exposes data in PDF file
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37688-1.html
By Patience Wait GCN Staff 12/05/05
Government agencies continue to stumble over security procedures
designed to conceal certain information embedded in documents posted
to the Internet.
In the latest error, the White House posted a copy of President Bush's
"Plan for Victory in Iraq," the heart of his speech last week at the
Naval Academy. But the Adobe portable document format file on the Web
site also contained the hidden name of the original author of the
document: Peter Feaver, a Duke University political science professor
who joined the National Security Council staff last June as a special
adviser.
The discovery that Feaver was the originator of the plan has stirred
controversy in Washington.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PoliticalScience/faculty/pfeaver
 The New York Times has reported that Feaver
co-authored an analysis of surveys regarding the popularity of the
Iraq war with the American public and concluded that citizens will
support the war, despite fairly heavy casualties, as long as they
believe it will ultimately succeed.
<snip>

2)
Hacker posts image on Foreign Office website
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/12/06/213289/HackerpostsimageonForeignOfficewebsite.htm>
By Bill Goodwin 6 December 2005
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office website was defaced by a hacker last
week, raising questions about the department's security procedures.
The hacker, using the alias Shadow Moon, bypassed the department's
firewalls to post a picture of a space alien on the website
http://forms.fco.gov.uk in the early hours of Monday morning.
The hacker is believed to have exploited vulnerabilities either in the
Windows 2000 operating system or in applications running on the site.
Web defacement was common three years ago, but today it is unusual for
high-profile websites to leave themselves open, said Phil Robinson,
technical director at security firm IRM.

3)
Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
[ http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm ]
Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)
summarizes findings of an international study on
information-seeking habits and preferences.
With extensive input from hundreds of librarians and OCLC staff,
the OCLC Market Research team developed a project and
commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. to survey a representative
sample of information consumers. In June of 2005, we
collected over 3,300 responses from information consumers
in Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom
and the United States.
The Perceptions report provides the findings and responses
from the online survey in an effort to learn more about:
- Library use
- Awareness and use of library electronic resources
- The Internet search engine, the library and the librarian
- Free vs. for-fee information
- The "Library" brand
The findings indicate that information consumers view
libraries as places to borrow print books, but they are
unaware of the rich electronic content they can access
through libraries. Even though information consumers
make limited use of these resources, they continue
to trust libraries as reliable sources of information.
Inside the Report
Introduction
Part 1: Libraries and Information Sources--Use, Familiarity and Favorability
Part 2: Using the Library--In Person and Online
Part 3: The Library Brand
Part 4: Respondents' Advice to Libraries
Part 5: Libraries--A "Universal" Brand?
Conclusion
Appendix A: Supporting Data Tables
Appendix B: Sample Verbatim Comments
About OCLC

4)
Student Summary of Performance (SOP)
 is required under the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004)
Virginia College Quest - Student Summary of Performance
http://www.vacollegequest.org/charting/performance_form.shtml
The Summary of Performance, with the accompanying documentation,
is important to assist the student in the transition from high school to
higher education, training and/or employment. This information is
necessary under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the
Americans with Disabilities Act to help establish a student's eligibility
for reasonable accommodations and supports in postsecondary settings.
It is also useful for the Vocational Rehabilitation Comprehensive
Assessment process. The information about students' current level
of functioning is intended to help postsecondary institutions consider
accommodations for access. These recommendations should not imply
that any individual who qualified for special education in high school
will automatically qualify for services in the postsecondary education
or the employment setting. Postsecondary settings will continue to
make eligibility decisions on a case-by-case basis.

5)
Firm Allegedly Hiding Cisco Bugs
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69762,00.html
By Kim Zetter Dec. 06, 2005
The computer security researcher who revealed a serious vulnerability
in the operating system for Cisco Systems routers this year says he
discovered 15 additional flaws in the software that have gone
unreported until now, one of which is more serious than the bug he
made public last summer.
Mike Lynn, a former security researcher with Internet Security
Systems, or ISS, said three of the flaws can give an attacker remote
control of Cisco's routing and gateway hardware, essentially allowing
an intruder to run malicious code on the hardware. The most serious of
the three would affect nearly every configuration of a Cisco router,
he said.
"That's the one that really scares me," Lynn said, noting that the bug
he revealed in July only affected routers configured in certain ways
or with certain features. The new one, he said, "is in a piece of code
that is so critical to the system that just about every configuration
will have it. It's more part of the core code and less of a feature
set," Lynn said. <snip>

Also see Ethics http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/ethics.html

6)
New Sony CD security risk found
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984764.html
By John Borland  ZDNet News December 6, 2005
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found,
and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the
record label's CDs.
The danger is associated with copy-protection software included on
some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. The
vulnerability could allow malicious programmers to gain control of
computers that have run the software, which is typically installed
automatically when a disc is put in a computer's CD drive.
The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the
copy-protection gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last
month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record
label.

For complete bckg story see:
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html


7)
White House accidentally exposes data in PDF file
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37688-1.html
By Patience Wait GCN Staff 12/05/05
Government agencies continue to stumble over security procedures
designed to conceal certain information embedded in documents posted
to the Internet.
In the latest error, the White House posted a copy of President Bush's
"Plan for Victory in Iraq," the heart of his speech last week at the
Naval Academy. But the Adobe portable document format file on the Web
site also contained the hidden name of the original author of the
document: Peter Feaver, a Duke University political science professor
who joined the National Security Council staff last June as a special
adviser.
The discovery that Feaver was the originator of the plan has stirred
controversy in Washington.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PoliticalScience/faculty/pfeaver
 The New York Times has reported that Feaver
co-authored an analysis of surveys regarding the popularity of the
Iraq war with the American public and concluded that citizens will
support the war, despite fairly heavy casualties, as long as they
believe it will ultimately succeed. <snip>

8)
Hackers Steal Sensitive Data using Digital Cameras
http://www.it-observer.com/articles.php?id=966
By IT Observer Staff 6 December 2005
Following a spate of reports about Bluetooth and iPods devices being
used to steal sensitive data from organizations, businesses are now
urging to be vigilant as hackers use digital cameras to sidestep
security measures.
"Camsnuffling", the latest IT managers headache being used to computer
attackers to extract and store data with the help of digital camera.
The digital camera device, just like iPod and Bluetooth, is a simple
digital storage devices. Hence, simply plugging it into a computer's
USB can allow hackers to obtain sensitive data.
Ian Callens, Icomm Technologies, explains: "This is a very difficult
issue to manage and a real threat to business continuity and data
security. If someone is seen in the workplace using an iPod it's more
than likely that it's for the wrong reasons - either podslurping or
downloading music without permission. This is relatively easier to
police." <snip>


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