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best,
<Karen>
1)
SPYWARE REMOVAL DIRECTIONS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITY.html
There is a 50 % chance your unprotected Windows
PC will be compromised within 12 minutes of going online.
#1! - Learn about Badware so you won't download it like
ComScore Networks the Big Brother of the Internet. The widely-used
online research company takes virtual photos of every Web page viewed by
its 1 million participants, even transactions completed in secure
sessions, like shopping or online checking. Then comScore aggregates the
information into market analysis for its over 500 clients, including
such large companies as Ford Motor, Microsoft and The New York Times Co.
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM (NEVER RESPOND to SPAM)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/e-mail/Email2.html
Spam Soars, Expect Worse In 2007
A huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major
jump in the use of both image- and document-based spam
have caused the volume of spam to increase 143% this year.
2)
How Kids outsmart School Web Filters
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/filtering.html
3)
DHS Passenger Scoring Illegal?
http://tinyurl.com/y6jhjq
When passengers deplane, Customs and Border Protection
personnel then target the high scorers for extra screening.
The notice says the data and the scores can be kept for 40
years, shared widely, and be used in hiring decisions.
Travelers may neither see nor contest their scores.
The Identity Project, http://www.papersplease.org/wp/
founded by online rights pioneer John Gilmore.
4)
The Never Ending Education Scams out of Texas
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/E-rate.html
A federal grand jury has indicted Rafael G. Adame on nine counts
of wire fraud in connection with what federal authorities said was a
practice of defrauding the E-Rate program which provides funds
to extend Internet access to schools and libraries.
5)
Specialized Academic & Scientific Meta Search Engines
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/Home_Teachers6.html
Library and Reference Tools, search engine directory
Why we love librarians.
6)
Aruba and Darpa build super wireless defence software
http://tinyurl.com/vxark
Launched in summer of 2005, Project MAP is funded by the Department of
Homeland Security through Darpa. The researchers are starting to analyse
the results of a test MAP deployment. Those results will guide changes,
tweaks, and refinements to the software through the first half of 2007.
By the end of 2006, researcher plan to have deployed a full-production
MAP system.
The pilot consists of off-the-shelf Aruba RF sniffers, which basically
are 802.11a/b/g access points that listen only for radio signals. The
MAP software listens to the traffic on all channels, measuring a range
of statistics, aggregates that information to create an accurate picture
of what's happening in the air, and then scans for evidence of attacks,
says David Kotz, a Dartmouth professor of computer science and one of
the lead MAP researchers.
7)
Youtube pulls video because of copyright violations.
http://tinyurl.com/v6vum
No problem they turn up again on copycat site in Paris.
7)
Hacking leads to prison sentence
http://tinyurl.com/vht29
Jeremy Hammond plotted to use the credit cards to make donations to
humanitarian and charity groups opposed by the Protest Warrior Web site
into which he hacked, but he changed his mind, according to court
records.
According to his lawyer, Hammond has extreme left-wing political views.
He admitted to the FBI that he was a member of hackthissite.org, which
identifies itself as "an online movement of hackers, activists and
anarchists," the court records show.
8)
Watch your wireless
http://tinyurl.com/v6nfd
They have quirky names, such as AirSnort, Aircrack, CoWPAtty and
THC-LEAPcracker. They are the implements of 21st century burglary.
Widely available online -- tutorials sometimes included -- these are a
few of the latest tools hackers are using to pilfer information from
supposedly secure wireless networks. Experts in the field agree it no
longer takes much interest in computers, or much skill, to penetrate all
manner of networks, from the typical user's home connection to those
used by small businesses and local governments. Whole communities exist
online for the purpose of sharing tips and techniques for breaking into
wireless networks.
9)
Fx for zero-day flaw in Word released 12/12/06
http://tinyurl.com/56kn4
six security bulletins at least two of them deemed "critical."
Five of the security bulletins will include fixes for vulnerabilities in
Windows, Microsoft said in a notice on its Web site Thursday. The sixth
bulletin will offer an update for Visual Studio, it said.
10)
Computer Hacking Results In Armed Police Raid
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff.html
My Goodness: this could be my mother or your mom! <Karen>
TIPS FOR THE VERY VERY NEW COMPUTER USER
and find the tools every parent needs to supervise and keep
children and teenagers (or mothers) safe on the internet.
11)
Are you in the mood to give it away?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Computers_for_Learning_pro.html
How about recycling/disposing of the technology the etrash?
Got some environmental concerns about just throwing it in the dumpster?
12)
EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2005 Summary Report
http://www.educause.edu/apps/coredata/reports/2005/
Core Data Service survey questions higher education information
technology leaders about
various aspects of IT on campus. According to the results, the
percentage of colleges and universities that choose to contract any of
several IT functions to outside vendors rose for the second straight
year, to 57 percent, up from 53 percent last year. Other notable
changes included a rise in the percentage of institutions that have
deployed wireless connectivity on campus, particularly in libraries,
and a rise in the percentage of campuses that have undertaken an
assessment of computer security. Greater proportions of colleges said
they track bandwidth usage this year than last year, and campuses also
saw a rise in the number that installed ERP systems.
13)
Get a whiff of the latest trend in advertising
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=537438
As another indication that we're all just lab rats running
through a maze of advertising, bus shelters in San Francisco
will begin enticing riders with the artificial scent of chocolate
chip cookies to make them crave milk. Did you get that?
Starting Monday, the transit system will allow California's milk
marketers to install adhesive strips chemically infused with
the sweet smell of cookies.
14)
Dutch stop over-the-air analog TV
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Netherlands-TV.html says
that the Netherlands has stopped transmitting analog TV. The practical
import is limited, since the overwhelming majority of Dutch households
use cable.
15)
Geotagger 1.1
http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/Geotagger.html
With Geotagger1.1 and Google Earth, users can take digital photographs
and insert GPS coordinates into these various images, then put them online.
16.
Active Web Reader 2.46
http://www.deskshare.com/awr.aspx
Download application and use the auto discovery
feature to find new RSS feeds while browsing new websites.
17.
Favorite old time film Video Clips
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/video_favs.html
18)
BATTLE LOOMS OVER EPA LIBRARY CLOSURE
The battle in Washington is escalating over a move by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to close its nationwide
network of scientific libraries. EPA began closing some of its
regional branch libraries and one at its Washington, D.C.
headquarters earlier this fall. The agency is not only closing the
facilities, but also has reportedly begun to destroy documents or
shipped them to repositories where they are uncataloged and
inaccessible to EPA employees, scientists, and the general public.
In addition, EPA has authorized the U.S. General Services
Administration to begin selling off library equipment.
This week, four Democrats who will likely chair key House
committees in the 110th Congress sent what amounted to a cease and
desist letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson urging him to
halt the library closures. In the letter, Ranking Members Reps.
Bart Gordon (D-TN), John Dingell (D-MI), Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and
James Oberstar (D-MN) expressed their serious concerns over the
current implementation of "library reorganization" plans and the
"destruction or disposition" of library holdings. "It is
imperative that the valuable government information maintained by
the EPA's libraries be preserved," wrote the Ranking Members.
In September, the four Democrats asked the Government
Accountability Office to initiate an investigation of the impact of
EPA's proposed library closures. They want Johnson to halt his
reorganization until the GAO issues its report. The closure of the
libraries was included in the administrations' proposed FY 2007
budget for EPA. The initiative is estimated to save EPA $2 million
annually. However, since the federal government is operating under
a continuing resolution, Congress has not technically signed off on
the proposed cuts.
19)
Call for Reviewers: TAH Grants: The Department of
Education is soliciting qualified persons to serve as grant
reviewers for the 2007 "Teaching American History" (TAH) grant
competition. The department is reaching out to numerous historical
councils, societies, and agencies hoping to establish a new pool of
grant reviewers. If you or someone within your organization is
interested in serving as a grant reviewer, please forward a resume
to Mia Howerton at mia.howerton@xxxxxx by 15 December 2006. For an
overview of reviewer qualifications, as well as what is expected of
each reviewer, please visit: http://www.oah.org/teaching/tah_reviewers.html .
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