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1)
Announcing A Celebration of the NSFNET: The Partnership That Changed the World
http://www.nsfnet-legacy.org
A significant building block in Internet history will be celebrated with a symposium and celebratory event on November 29-30 in Arlington, Virginia. Scientists, scholars, technologists, business leaders and educators will gather to celebrate the NSFNET, a program of networking projects funded by the National Science Foundation beginning in 1985.The NSFNET comprised a set of projects that encouraged the adoption of internetworking in education and research. At the start of the program, networking was neither strongly standardized nor ubiquitous on campuses. The NSFNET program vastly expanded network availability, advanced technological development, and helped prove the value of the set of services that ultimately became today's commercial Internet.The NSFNET backbone network connected colleges, universities and research centers throughout the U.S.and exchanged traffic with many overseas networks. The network grew from 56 kbps bandwidth in 1985 to T1 (1.5 Mbps) in 1988 and finally to T3 (45 Mbps) in 1991, reflecting the explosive growth in usage during this period. The T3 network was the immediate precursor to today's Internet, transitioning in 1995 from a private network to an infrastructure connecting the resources of countless commercial network providers. At the same time, outreach initiatives helped early adopters in academia use the new resource for scientific and educational progress.
The theme of the November event, "The Partnership That Changed the World," points to the NSFNET's signature integration of public and private resources: a collaboration of academic, commercial and governmental institutions working toward a single goal. The sum of those efforts, greater than any organization could have achieved on its own, led to technical, operational and academic advancements that have had immense influence on modern life.
At the event, participants will discuss the NSFNET's history, celebrate its contributions, and consider the major impact the Internet has had on science, education, research and commerce. The program includes speakers and panelists who directed the NSFNET program, did research and scholarship across the network, and built services and businesses in the resulting network economy.The November event is planned by a group of NSFNET program leaders, with organizational support from Merit Network and Internet2. Sponsors include Advanced Network & Services, Inc., Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks and the National Science Foundation. The event will be of particular interest to those who participated in NSFNET projects or conducted research and education that benefited from early advances in network services. There will also be a webcast of the event, available to the public.
The event will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, It begins the morning of Thursday, November 29, with a formal program throughout the day and a gala reception and dinner following in the evening. The program resumes the morning of Friday, November 30, and concludes that afternoon.

2)
Telecom amnesty update
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/27/amnesty/index.html
Several developments over the past few days demonstrate real progress in the effort to stop telecom amnesty. This Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball details the efforts triggered by bloggers, along with MoveOn, to stop the bill, led by Chris Dodd:A White House campaign to win quick passage of a major surveillance bill has hit a new snag in recent days: four Democratic presidential candidates have signaled their intention to oppose the measure as it is currently written.Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut took the lead last week when he vowed to filibuster a version of the bill overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee. . . . In a statement blasting the program as "unconscionable," Dodd said he would "do everything in my power to stop Congress from shielding this president's agenda of secrecy, deception, and blatant unlawfulness."

3)
Encrypt data stored off site, warns Louisiana agency
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9044122
The loss of unencrypted storage media from an Iron Mountain Inc. vehicle last month renewed calls for IT managers to better protect data stored off site.  The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOFSA) said the unencrypted data lost from the vehicle of its contractor on Sept. 19 included the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of thousands of state residents.The state agency, based in Port Allen, La., administers several state scholarship programs as well as the states 529 College Savings Plan.

4)
Scoop: Facebook employees know what profiles you look at
http://valleywag.com/tech/scoop/facebook-employees-know-what-profiles-you-look-at-315901.php
My friend got a call from her friend at Facebook, asking why she kept looking at his profile," says a privacy-conscious source at a major tech company. Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone's profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed -- a major privacy violation. If you've been obsessed with a workmate or classmate, Facebook employees know. If Barack Obama's intern has been using the campaign account to troll for hotties, Facebook employees know. Within the company, it's considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun."

5)
Navy tightens grip on BlackBerrys
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45301-1.html
The Navy has implemented tougher security settings for BlackBerry devices used by naval personnel. Administrators for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet activated the new settings Oct. 17 for the Navy and Oct. 23 for the Marine Corps. The Office of the Department of the Navys Chief Information Officer based its strengthened security configuration on Wireless Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) BlackBerry Security Checklist v5, Release 1.2, published May 23 by the Defense Information Systems Agency, and on additional guidance from the Marine Corps and Navy Designated Approving Authority. The new settings work with readers used to access the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet with Common Access Cards, according to the CIOs office. The changes to the Navys BlackBerry security settings were implemented to protect the devices against unauthorized access and to turn off features that potentially compromised their security. Users received a message on their devices that the new settings had taken effect, and that users did not have to change the settings because the Navy would automatically reset the security settings of all of its devices through updates on the Navys BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

6)
San Francisco Gallery Shows Hacker's Work as Art
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138991-c,hackers/article.html
Joe Grand has never really thought of himself as an artist, but on Saturday night he's having his first gallery opening.Grand is a hardware hacker: He's at home with a soldering iron in one hand, the guts of some electronic device opened up in front of him. A former member of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacker collective, he designed the programmable conference badges used at this year's Defcon 15 hacker conference and a cheap RFID (radio frequency identification) reader, soon to be on store shelves at Radio Shack. His show, called "When Electronics Become Art," is happening at the 20 goto 10 gallery, on the fringe of San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. It's the kind of place where you'd expect to see a hacker art exhibit: it's populated by junkies, liquor stores and dive bars. Gallery owner Christopher Abad says the space was filled with old TVs and other junk hoarded by "dumpster-diving meth heads" before he moved in earlier this year.

7)
'Terrorists of the future on web'
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article393069.ece
TERRORISTS of the future will use the Internet to wage attacks and wreak havoc across the globe, according to a US terror expert. Former US army intelligence chief Dan Verton believes the next  generation of Al Qaeda will be clever, net-savvy youngsters. And he fears it will take a crippling attack on the scale of 9/11 before world leaders act and realise what a sleeping beast the web is. He said: "The next generation of terrorists won't be mindless hordes of thugs living a hand-to-mouth existence in Afghanistan. "They will look and act very differently to the current generation. "The young kids that they are radicalising today are studying mathematics, computer science and engineering.

8)
UK mobile security still useless
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/uk_mobile_security/
UK mobile workers are often "left to their own devices" when it comes to security, according to a new survey. A survey by YouGov of 1,200 British workers who use PCs at work found that over a third (35 per cent) say responsibility for IT security is left up to the individual employee when they are outside the workplace. That's akin to leaving the lunatics in charge of the asylum, the survey suggests.

9)
Cyber Warriors
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1007/102907ol.htm
SAN ANTONIO -- Deep in the heart of cyberspace, something new called a Network Warfare and Ops Squadron fights battles 24/7 from a building in a nondescript office park here at Lackland Air Force Base. At one end of the room, a crew monitors the cyberspace highways for the first signs of a hacker infiltration, spreading virus, or network-jamming wave of spam. A second crew rapidly investigates every problem and scrambles other crews to counter each incursion with an armory of specialized software. And all of it is under the watchful eyes of a pyramid of officers and officials that ascends through the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice and eventually into the Oval Office. Every day, every hour, the squadron reacts to myriad trivial or significant attacks on some of the 650,000 computers that allow the Air Force to pay its personnel, manage day care centers, buy fuel, direct fighter-bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and launch nuclear-tipped missiles should the order ever come.

10)
Hartford Financial misplaces back-up tapes with personal data on policy holders
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9044801
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has notified about 237,000 policy holders of a potential compromise of their personal data. The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers of customers of the company's personnel lines claims center. The tapes were discovered to be missing on Sept. 27. So far, there is no evidence that the tapes were stolen or that the information has been misused, a company spokeswoman said. Hartford Financial Services has no idea if the tapes were misplaced while in transit to another location or if they went missing inside the company. But the information contained on them could only be read with "the use of sophisticated and expensive equipment," she added.

11)
Commentary: Data Loss "Unplugged"
http://attrition.org/dataloss/dlunplugged.html
Since July 1, 2005, attrition.org has "officially" been tracking incidents regarding the theft, loss, or exposure of personally identifiable information (PII). In the months since the creation of the Data Loss web page, Data Loss Mail List, and Data Loss Database (Open Source) (aka "DLDOS"), we have been asked many questions about not only why we maintain these resources but also about what criteria we use to determine the inclusion of events into the mail list, web page, and database. For anyone interested, we feel that we should try to clarify our "requirements" and answer any questions that may arise.  First, we can't "report" what we don't know. In most cases, we will only include events that are reported by a legitimate media source. While we could include blog rumors and tips via email from unverified sources, we feel that it's best to have a verifiable and reputable source of information in case there are any questions or concerns regarding the validity of the information contained in our resources. If an event isn't covered by a reputable media source, there's a good chance we may not include it in our resources. We do understand that work by others such as Chris Walsh, who finds additional breaches through Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, will uncover breaches not normally reported by media outlets, but attrition.org simply doesn't have the resources to actively pursue such additional information. We applaud Chris for his efforts and hope that he continues to keep up with his endeavors. [...]

12)
Austrian Police to use crime-busting Trojans
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=10446
The Austrian Police has become the latest European agency to express its intention to use specially-crafted Trojans to remotely monitor criminal suspects.  According to reports in Austrian media, the minister of justice Maria Berger, and Interior Minister Gunther Plater, have drafted a proposal that will be amended by legal experts and the cabinet with the intention of allowing police to carry out such surveillance legally with a judges warrant.  There doesnt appear to be a defined timescale for such a law, and it is not clear whether the move would face the legal challenges encountered by the German authorities in the last year as they attempted to get a similar law off the ground. According to Berger, Trojans would only be used in cases of serious crime, such as terrorism and organised racketeering.

13)
"Father" of ISO 27001 to visit Vietnam
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/10/751297/
Professor Ted Humphreys, the world leading expert on information security management system (ISMS), the developer of the international standards on information security management standards ISO 27001, will come to Vietnam in late November 2007.He will share his knowledge and experience in this field with Vietnamese businesses at a workshop entitled Information Security Management in HCM City. At the workshop, Professor Humphreys will present the trends of information security management of international businesses in the areas of accounting, finance, securities, insurance, banking, IT, health service, automobile industry, and electronics in order to maximize information security in each organization, the implementation of ISO 27001 and its benefits.

14)
Online Marketers Joining Internet Privacy Efforts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/technology/31aol.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times Topics/People/S/Story, Louise&oref=slogin
Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their Web surfing habits from the prying eyes of marketers. Such lists will not reduce the number of ads that people see online, but they will prevent advertisers from using their online meanderings to deliver specific ad pitches to them. Today the AOL division of Time Warner will announce a service of this type, which will be up and running by the end of the year. Other programs are likely to be articulated soon, as online advertisers prepare for a two-day forum on privacy to be held by the Federal Trade Commission. AOL says it is setting up a new Web site that will link consumers directly to opt-out lists run by the largest advertising networks. The sites technology will ensure that peoples preferences are not erased later. There is a silver lining for marketers, however: the AOL site will try to persuade people that they should choose to share some personal data in order to get pitches for products they might like. Most Web sites, including AOL, already collect data about users to send them specific ads but AOL is choosing to become more open about the practice and will run advertisements about it in coming months.

15)
Retailers want online sellers to fight theft
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071025.wgttheft1025/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071025.wgttheft1025
WASHINGTON — Retailers and police called on Congress on Thursday to require online auction sites such as eBay to post the serial numbers of items for sale to help crack down on gangs of professional shoplifters.The Internet auction sites should also provide more information about high-volume sellers of goods, they said.
Yet another front in the war on secondary markets. Retailers claim this data retention requirement is about stopping crime, but it's really about policing the distribution chain by punishing rogue distributors who sell into the secondary market. ~anon

16)
F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/business/media/29cable.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the rising costs of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this week that gave individual cable companies exclusive rights to provide service to an apartment building, the agencys chairman says. The new rule could open markets across the country to far-rangingcompetition. It would also be a huge victory for Verizon Communications and AT&T, which have challenged the cable industry by offering their own video services. The two companies have lobbied aggressively for the provision.  They have been supported in their fight by consumer groups, satellite television companies and small rivals to the big cable providers. Commission officials and consumer groups said the new rule could significantly lower cable prices for millions of subscribers who live in apartment buildings and have had no choice in selecting a company for paid television. Government and private studies show that when a second cable company enters a market, prices can drop as much as 30 percent.

17) Webinar On Promoting Virtual Reference Services

Find out more about the webinar and register:
http://www.oclc.org/info/reference/

DATE / TIME

Thursday, November 15, 2007, 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET

Looking for ways to increase usage and capture the attention of your current and potential users? Join us for our free webinar on Promoting Virtual Reference Services: Beyond Bookmarks. This webinar highlights two innovative promotions, one on MTV (by New Jersey's QandANJ), and the other on YouTube (by Florida's Ask a Librarian service). Our speakers, Beth Cackowski, project coordinator of QandANJ, and Diana Sachs-Silveira (of Florida's Ask a Librarian service) will discuss these and other promotional activities, as well as answer your questions on what works, what doesn't work, and what they are doing to entice new users to library reference services.

If you can't attend the webinar, don't worry! We will post the recording on the QuestionPoint Blog: http://questionpoint.blogs.com/

18)

Applications and Tutorials
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/apps.html

Orientation programming, Mac, ASP, COLD FUSION, (D)HTML, CCS, JAVASCRIPT, PERL, CGI, PHP, SQL, VB, XML

19)

"Search Engines: The Race to Replace Google"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/62254

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