[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Headlines and Resources
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Hi,
Happy reading for today.
best,
<Karen>
1)
A California court made it clear to Apple that if the company
wanted to find out who leaked details of an in-development product
to bloggers, they'd actually have to do it legally. That lesson cost
the company almost $700,000 in legal fee reimbursement.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/84547440/article.pl
2)
eEye Enters Antivirus Business with Blink Suite
http://tinyurl.com/2e44k4
The security research firm known that first came to prominence in 2001
after having discovered the gaping security hole in Microsoft Internet
Information Services exploited by the worm it dubbed "Code Red," has
thrown its hat all the way into the security software ring. This
morning, eEye becomes an anti-virus company, going to bat against
Symantec and McAfee, and integrating Norman anti-virus technology into
its Blink Professional security suite.
What will distinguish the new Blink from its competition is Norman's
approach to evaluating executable program behavior before it runs. As
eEye Chief Technology Officer Mark Maiffret explained to BetaNews, the
new Blink system will actually run executable files in a protected
virtual machine, which the company says will still be called the Norman
SandBox.
3)
Duo jailed over Royal phone tap scandal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/29/royal_phonetap_scandal/
"Neither journalist or private security consultant are above the law,"
Judge Gross added.
News of the World editor Andy Coulson resigned hours after the duo were
sentenced, saying the responsibility for the scandal ultimately rested
with him.
A senior journalist at UK Sunday paper News of the World has been jailed
for four months after being convicted of a plot to intercept voicemail
messages of the Royal family.
4)
Vista's "fine print."
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/175801
Vista's legal terms and conditions + the technical limitations
that have been incorporated into the software at the insistence of the
motion picture industry. includes extensive provisions granting
Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy of the software
and holds the prospect of deleting certain programs without the user's
knowledge. During the installation process, users "activate" Vista by
associating it with a particular computer or device and transmitting
certain hardware information directly to Microsoft.
Microsoft has the right to revalidate the software or to require
users to reactivate it should
they make changes to their computer components. In addition, it sets
significant limits on the ability to copy or transfer the software,
prohibiting anything more than a single backup copy and setting strict
limits on transferring the software to different devices or users.
Windows Defender will, by default, automatically remove software rated
"high" or "severe," even though that may result in other software ceasing
to work or mistakenly result in the removal of software that is not unwanted.
Better to start learning to get along with Open Source stuff
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Linux.html
like Ubuntu - it will do everything you need and do it for free and
Microsoft can't "Get YOU" anymore.
5)
TJX Stored Customer Data, Violated Visa Payment Rules
http://tinyurl.com/39ahmj
Before being hacked late last year, TJX Companies committed a very big
no-no in today's era of cybertheft.
The company, whose assets include 826 T.J. Maxx, 751 Marshalls, and 271
HomeGoods locations, was storing customer cardholder information in
violation of Visa and MasterCard's Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard, according to a Visa Compromised Account Management System
alert sent Jan. 15 to financial institutions that issue cards and manage
Visa transactions.
6)
Botnets could eat the internet'
http://tinyurl.com/3doe2o
Father of the internet Vint Cerf has warned high-powered attendees
at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the internet is at serious
risk from botnets.
Vast networks of compromised PCs, used by criminals for sending spam
and spyware and for launching denial of service attacks are reported to be
growing at an alarming rate in terms of their potential and Cerf, now an
employee of Google, warned they could undermine the future of the internet -
likening their spread to a pandemic.
(Can you imagine how many computers in schools have become part of the botnets
used to serve up porn and spam totally out of the teachers control? yikes!)
6)
CRAFTING RELEVANT CULTURAL CONTENT
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch9.asp
How to build a thematic reading unit
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch7.asp
Please link to the Educational CyberPlayGround
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7)
Multi Cultural Education Resources
GOOD OL' U.S.A. FOLK MUSIC resources
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/m_sites.html
8)
Halifax Bank of Scotland,sent 75,000 statements of its
other customers to a 22 year old.
http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7959
The unexpected mail was delivered to her door in five large parcels,
each containing 500 statements the UK's BBC News reported today.
The package included names, addresses, account details and sort codes of
HBOS' customers.
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has
recently cracked the 100 million mark for lost or stolen records. under
California's 1386 bill, Beoing was obligated to report to individuals
the loss of 382,000 records via a stolen laptop. No similar law exists
in Australia or the UK.
7)
Educaton is a Business
Digital Diploma Mills:
The Automation of Higher Education history of how this got started &
the connections
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Latest.html
8)
GoDaddy, Meet NoDaddy
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/godaddy_meet_no.html
In the wake of GoDaddy's one-minute's-notice shutdown of his site last
week, Fyodor has launched an anti-GoDaddy website at NoDaddy.com.
The previous owner of NoDaddy.com turned down a cash offer and donated
the domain to the GoDaddy Sucks cause, Fyodor says. "I made an offer to
buy the domain from the owner, thinking I didn't have much hope because
.com domains are so expensive now. But he had such bad experiences with
GoDaddy that he refused money and donated the domain."
The Internet Archive shows the domain was previously used for gay male
porn. The question now, What will GoDaddy do?
9)
Links to Popular Entertainment, Arts and Literature
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/infotainment.html
find a free selection of the best broadband
internet television channels. (over 1400).
10)
Cambridge Information Group announces
http://www.csa1.co.uk/news/csa-pressrelease.php
agreement to acquire Proquest Information and Learning
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) announced it has entered into an
agreement to acquire ProQuest Information and Learning, a segment of
ProQuest Company (NYSE: PQE), for approximately $222 million.
11)
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
http://tinyurl.com/2ob5fn
12)
Master Degree in Gaming from Michigan State
http://dmat.msu.edu/degrees/gamespecialization.html
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