Mark Jackson reports:
A security flaw in the
third-party service that Virgin Media uses to
process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of
between 30,000 and 50,000 people to the Internet.
A student called Alikhan Uzakov discovered the problem while filling
out an application form for the operator (like this one).
At this point he was offered the
option to upload his CV, but the URL
that this generated also revealed the name of a directory (folder) where his CV
was being stored.
Alikhan Uzakov said:
“When I opened the directory I was able to see all past and present
applications.
Read more on ISPreview.
This seems to be a rather hot trend.
Toyota invests in U.S. car-sharing service
Toyota Motor Corp on Friday said it has invested in U.S.
car-sharing company Getaround, a move that comes as global automakers seek to
shore up their presence in new technology sectors amid growing competition from
transport startups.
… Automakers
have been scrambling to partner with tech firms to head off competition from self-driving cars and car sharing
services that threaten to eventually trim demand for car ownership.
Over the years I have learned most of these, but it never hurts to pass
these infographics on to my students.
8 Awesome Microsoft Word Hacks (Infographic)
Even though it's so widely used, many people don’t realize
Word's full potential. Sure, you
probably know how to change the font size, create columns or add bullet points
-- but you can do so much more with the word-processing application.
For my students with vines.
Let your Vines live on forever with this Giphy conversion
tool
In a brief post on Medium, Giphy
explained that, because of the company’s love of all things looping, it’s making a tool that
lets you download and keep your Vines forever, or just keep them alive on Giphy
itself.
Having no artistic skills, I rarely include images in my
blog, but this looks easy enough even for me.
Canva Can Help You Increase Your School's Social Media Reach
One of the things that I always talk about in my workshop
on Blog & Social
Media for Teachers and School Leaders is using high resolution
graphics to draw attention to your blog posts and social media posts. Canva
is a free tool that can
help you create high quality, high resolution graphics to make your posts
stand-out in a crowded stream of social media posts. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how
to use Canva to create graphics for social media posts.
Dilbert explains why Computer Security is an important
field of study.
No comments:
Post a Comment