¤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 Greetings, Happy reading for today. best, <Karen> 1) Football and Brain Damage? Yes it's very true. What should parents and schools do to protect everyone? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/sports/football/18waters.html Expert Ties Ex-Player's Suicide to Brain Damage former National Football League player Andre Waters killed himself in November, an explanation for his suicide has remained a mystery. But after examining remains of Mr. Waters's brain, a neuropathologist in Pittsburgh is claiming that Mr. Waters had sustained brain damage from playing football and he says that led to his depression and ultimate death. The neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading expert in forensic pathology, determined that Mr. Waters's brain tissue had degenerated into that of an 85-year-old man with similar characteristics as those of early-stage Alzheimer's victims. Dr. Omalu said he believed that the damage was either caused or drastically expedited by successive concussions Mr. Waters, 44, had sustained playing football. 2) New York City 911 to accept images http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/nyregion/18cameras.html says that New York City is planning to upgrade its 911 and 311 (non-emergency city services) numbers to accept images sent from cell phone cameras and the like. 3) Breach affects 79,000 MoneyGram accounts http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/16450376.htm MoneyGram International Inc., which wires money and provides electronic bill paying, said Friday computer hackers may have stolen personal data on about 79,000 customers. 4) Inside the Ring: NDU hacked http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070112-123024-8199r.htm Computers and information networks at the National Defense University (NDU), the Joint Chiefs military education school at Fort McNair in Washington, were hacked and damaged by unknown attackers, defense officials said. 5) E-security in Vietnam shaken by crimes http://english.vietnamnet.vn/biz/2007/01/654412/ According to VNCERT (the Vietnam Computer Emergency Respond Team at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications), a series of 2006 online attacks seriously threatened e-commerce in Vietnam. 6) Botnet herders face jailtime http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2172694/botnet-herders-face-jailtime Authorities are seeking jailterms of up to 3 years against two botnet operators who alleged to have commanded a network of 1.5m computers. 7) Feds offer cybercrime tips to local cops http://news.com.com/Feds+offer+cybercrime+tips+to+local+cops/2100-1028_3-6150676.html Police trying to learn how to use the Internet to investigate everything from cyberstalking to spam and illegal hacking have some new advice, thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice. 8) Our Data Went Where? http://www.cio.com/archive/011507/fea_tec.html Aflac had to get its smart phone house in order not only to reduce management complexity but also to meet federal requirements around data management and security. Aflac's ultimate strategy: Ban all non-company-issued handhelds from connecting to enterprise servers and computers, lock down PCs so handheld-synchronization software couldn't be installed by users, and forbid the use of POP3 and SMTP e-mail access to the corporate network so wireless Internet users couldn't sneak in the back door. Aflac also decided to rely on a mobile e-mail server to manage both e-mail access and the handhelds themselves, and ensure automatic installation of firmware patches and enforcement of password policies. This strategy is common in the financial services sector, with similar policies currently in use at Citigroup's Primerica subsidiary, Farmers & Merchants Bank, IndyMac Bank and Russell Investment Group, among others. 9) Computer Privacy in Distress http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72510-0.html By Jennifer Granick My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is stored on it. I have e-mail dating back several years, my address book with the names of everyone I know, notes and musings for various work and personal projects, financial records, passwords to my blog, my web mail, project and information management data for various organizations I belong to, photos of my niece and nephew and my pets. In short, my computer is my most private possession. I have other things that are more dear, but no one item could tell you more about me than this machine. Yet, a rash of recent court decisions says the Constitution may not be enough to protect my laptop from arbitrary, suspicionless and warrantless examination by the police. At issue is the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures by government agents. As a primary safeguard against arbitrary and capricious searches, property seizures and arrests, the founding fathers required the government to first seek a warrant from a judge or magistrate. 10) Coast Guard IT controls leave TSA data vulnerable http://www.fcw.com/article97377-01-17-07-Web Information technology management problems at the U.S. Coast Guard are causing concerns about the Transportation Security Administration's financial and operational data, according to an inspector general's report [1]. The agency has made some gains since an earlier audit by the IG's office, but more needs to be done, according to the report. Until that happens, the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the TSA data cannot be assured, the report states. 11) TJX says it suffered computer systems intrusion' customer data stolen http://tinyurl.com/39b7b7 TJX Cos., operator of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount stores, said Wednesday its computer systems were hacked late last year and customer data has been stolen. 12) CIBC loses info on 470,000 Canadians http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070118.wcibc0118/BNStory/Business/home The personal information of nearly half-a-million customers at a CIBC mutual fund subsidiary has gone missing, prompting fears of a potential security breach and inciting an investigation from Canada's federal privacy commissioner. A backup computer file containing application data for 470,000 investors at Montreal-based Talvest Mutual Funds disappeared in transit on the way to Toronto recently, the bank said in a news release Thursday. 13) Does your mom know how to use the internet? If not you can sit her down in front of this page to get here started. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Read_This_First.html 14) Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285547,00.htm Swedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona up to 580,000 in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist. Over the last 15 months, Nordea customers have been targeted by emails containing a tailormade Trojan, said the bank. Nordea believes that 250 customers have been affected by the fraud, after falling victim to phishing emails containing the Trojan. According to McAfee, Swedish police believe Russian organised criminals are behind the attacks. Currently, 121 people are suspected of being involved. 15) Honours probe police hacked No10 computers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/21/npeers21.xml Detectives in the cash-for-honours inquiry were forced to "hack" into Downing Street computers in the search for evidence, The Sunday Telegraph has discovered. Police used computer experts to obtain confidential material, and are also believed to have approached Number 10's internet suppliers to gain access to government email records. Scotland Yard became suspicious that potentially vital information was being withheld after it twice asked Downing Street for all emails, letters and other material relating to the system of awarding peerages. Concerns grew among officers that there had been a cover-up. 16) Generation Next http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/300.pdf The report is divided into four main sections: (1) Outlook and World View, (2) Technology and Lifestyle, (3) Politics and Policy, and (4) Values and Social Issues. <>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<> Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List ©1993NetHappenings: the largest and oldest K12 Education Mailing List Email Preferences -- Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Digest
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