Is this a real threat or a “Give me a
bigger budget to waste” plea? Since she compares hurricane Sandy
to terrorsts, I strogly suspect the latter...
Homeland
Security chief: Banks 'under attack' by hackers
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano said today that hackers are "actively" attacking
some of the country's largest financial institutions.
According to a report
in The Hill, America's top security official issued the warning at a
Washington Post event today, but didn't specify the nature of the
attacks.
"Right now, financial institutions
are actively under attack," The Hill quoted Napolitano as
saying. "We know that. I'm not giving you any classified
information... I will say this has involved some of our nation's
largest institutions. We've also had our stock exchanges attacked
over the last [few] years, so we know... there are vulnerabilities."
Napolitano also said that the hackers
have been successfully pilfering funds from the banks, but wouldn't
elaborate.
For the “How NOT to do it” folder:
“We don't need no stinking (secure) logs! If we have logs then we
have detailed records of what happened.”
"The final
report that was handed to the Dutch government today indicates
that all 8 certificate servers of the Dutch company DigiNotar were
fully
hacked. (Report
PDF in English.) Because the access log
files were stored on the same servers, they cannot be used to find
any evidence for or against intrusion. In fact,
blatant falsification has been found in those log files. A series of
so-far unused certificates has also been found. It is unknown if and
where these certificates have been used."
For the “How NOT to do it” folder:
ToS shouldn't be an after-thought.
"In January, hackers got hold
of 24 million Zappos customers' email addresses and other personal
information. Some of those customers have been suing Zappos, an
online shoes and clothing retailer that's owned by Amazon.com.
Zappos wants the matter to go into arbitration, citing its terms of
service. The problem: A federal court just ruled
that agreement completely invalid. So Zappos will have to go to
court—or more likely settle to avoid those legal costs. Here's how
Zappos screwed up, according to Eric Goldman, a law professor and
director of Santa Clara University's High Tech Law Institute: It
put a link to its terms of service on its website, but didn't
force customers to click through to it."
For the April First folder: “Hello,
I'm Mitt Romney and my cellphone was just stolen. Would you please
cancel ###”
"U.S. cellphone carriers took a
major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of
smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases
that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks.
The initiative got its start earlier this year when the FCC and
police chiefs from major cities asked the cellular carriers for
assistance in battling the surging number of smartphone thefts. In
New York, more than 40 percent of all robberies involve cellphones
and in Washington, D.C., cellphone thefts accounted for 38 percent of
all robberies in 2011."
If it's this easy, why don't we do it
in the US? Encrypt the files by default and you have full (not just
plausible) deniability?
MegaUpload
will be reborn as Me.ga in January
Kim DotCom is once again making news
and thumbing his nose at authorities.
DotCom told Reuters
today that he will launch Mega, the son of MegaUpload, near the first
anniversary of the police raid on his home and the shutting shut down
of MegaUpload, a storage service accused of hosting millions of
pirated movies, music and other digital media.
… The new cloud storage service
will differ from MegaUpload in an important ways, according to
DotCom. First, instead of using the .Com domain name, it will operate
on the Gabon-based domain Me.ga.
The service will also not make use of
any U.S. hosting companies. Me.ga will also enable copyright owners
will be able to get "direct delete access" of pirated
content provided they agree not to hold Me.ga's operators responsible
for the infringement, DotCom told Reuters.
The future of education? Somehow, I
doubt it.
Not content with being the young
upstart in the LMS industry taking on the aging giants of Blackboard
and Desire2Learn, Instructure
has now decided to enter another market and take on some of the
upstarts there, namely Coursera and edX. That is, tonight it
launches the Canvas Network, which
in the words of CEO Josh Coates, is “our answer to the whole MOOC
hype.”
It’s an answer that Instructure’s
current clients have helped devise, too, Coates says, noting that
many of the schools that run its LMS Canvas are pondering that hype
and weighing whether they should join the Coursera or edX platform
(or fear
being left out of the MOOC race entirely). In many
cases, these schools already offer online classes to their own
students, but simply don’t have the reach — the marketing reach
or the instructional reach — that the xMOOCs promise.
The Canvas Network
So with the new Canvas Network,
Instructure has compiled a catalog of free, open online classes run
on the Canvas LMS by Canvas customers. The network launches with
participation from a dozen institutions, including Brown, the
University of Washington, and the University of Central Florida.
There are 2 dozen courses, including “Introduction to Openness in
Education” taught by BYU’s David Wiley and “Gender Through
Comic Books” with lectures voiced by Stan Lee. (Yes, that
Stan Lee.)
Registration opens now, with the first
classes beginning in January.
… But Instructure does have some
experience on the MOOC front, having been the platform used for the
MOOC MOOC run by the Hybrid
Pedagogy folks back in August. Coates said that the company was
able to learn a lot during this week-long MOOC about how it would
have to tweak the LMS features to account for open participation at a
massive scale.
[For me to “borrow”
ideas from?
Basic Arithmetic
https://www.canvas.net/courses/basic-arithmetic#
College Algebra
https://www.canvas.net/courses/college-algebra
The Beauty and Utility of Mathematics
https://www.canvas.net/courses/the-beauty-and-utility-of-mathematics
For my lawyer friends who are planning
that 6,000 square foot wine cellar...
There are a lot of CAD applications
we’ve covered here at MUO, including Angela’s review
of LibreCAD, which I used for a little bit of interior
design as well. Then, in Directory we’ve covered apps like
BabyCAD
and DesignYourRoom.
However, I think the absolute best application to “sketch up” a
room design like this is obviously SketchUp!
A couple of FONT tools for my website
class...
WhatFont is a simple tool that you can
use to find out what a type of font is.
The most direct way to acquire it is
through the website,
especially for the bookmarklet. I would also recommend this method
for downloading the Safari extension. For Chrome, you can head right
to the Chrome
Web Store and get it that way.
(Related) Now that you have a few
thousand favorite fonts, you need to organize them.
NexusFont gives Windows users the
ability to effectively organize and manage the fonts installed on
their computers. Once installed and started, NexusFont runs a scan
and locates all the fonts installed on your computer system. The
software allows you to view each font as a sample text, giving you a
clearer idea of what your text will look like.
The sample text used can be modified by
the users. You can then easily browse through these fonts and select
the one you want to use.
Perspective
How
Teens Do Research in the Digital World
… According to this survey of
teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet &
American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the
National Writing Project, the internet has opened up a vast world of
information for today’s students, yet students’ digital literacy
skills have yet to catch up:
- Virtually all (99%) AP and NWP teachers in this study agree with the notion that “the internet enables students to access a wider range of resources than would otherwise be available,” and 65% agree that “the internet makes today’s students more self-sufficient researchers.”
- At the same time, 76% of teachers surveyed “strongly agree” with the assertion that internet search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily.
Read Full Report
Tools for geeks...
Get
Windows 8 for Dummies: Pocket Edition e-book for free
Tools for literate geeks... Not free,
but perhaps my students would program a free App for that...
Romeo:
But soft, what light through yonder
window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Juliet:
Relax Romeo. Tis but my iPad, glowing
as I read.
Shakespeare
has been brought kicking and screaming up into the iPad generation,
with the launch of a new set of apps intended to leverage the
tablet’s multimedia flexibility with a splash of Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth apps, the
handiwork of developers Agant and Cambridge
University Press, match the classic texts with audio recordings
featuring actors such as Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale,
interactive timelines showing key themes, and glossaries to better
understand arcane English.
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