To cap Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering its third annual National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workshop, October 30-November 1 at its Maryland campus. NICE is focused on enhancing the overall cybersecurity posture of the U.S. by accelerating the availability of education and training resources designed to improve the cyber-behavior, knowledge, and skills of every segment of the population. The workshop will feature four tracks focused on NICE’s primary goals: Raising Awareness: Online Safety Starts with You!; Education, Professionalism, and Certifications; Training and Maintaining a Competitive Cybersecurity Workforce; and the Role of Cybersecurity in Competitions. Attendees will also observe students competing in a challenge. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://csrc.nist.gov/nice/2012workshop/.
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K12 Administrators Dept. of Ed Family Policy Compliance Office
On October 24, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Department’s Family Policy Compliance Office will present via webinar a basic overview of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This one-hour presentation will be geared toward local school officials. TO REGISTER, PLEASE GO TO https://educateevents1.webex.com/educateevents1/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=748074727.
Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It's Tricky To Opt Out
Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It’s Tricky To Opt Out
Tracking is on by default – DIRECTIONS TO STOP IT
The new iPhone operating system comes with three things that make tracking easier for advertisers and reduce the likelihood that you’ll opt out.
- iOS 6 comes in a default “tracking on” position. You have to affirmatively switch it off if you do not want advertisers to see what you’re up to.
- The tracking control in iPhone’s settings is NOT contained where you might expect it, under the “Privacy” menu. Instead, it’s found under “General,” then “About,” and then the “Advertising” section of the Settings menu.
- The tracking control is titled “Limit Ad Tracking,” and must be turned to ON, not OFF, in order to work. That’s slightly confusing — “ON” means ads are off! — so a large number of people will likely get this wrong.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ifa-apples-iphone-tracking-in-ios-6-2012-10
A Women who codes / develops is called a "Grrlgrammer"
A Women who codes / develops is called a “GRRLGRAMMER”
“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
The surprising thing wasn’t that a 28-year-old “assclown” would channel The Social Network’s Sean Parker—it was that Van Horn’s comments came on the heels of a whole series of tech-startup flareups over everything from advertising women as “perks” at a company event, to a marketing video featuring a woman clad in a corporate T-shirt and underwear, to a startup pitch session featuring a recurring photo of “leaping bikini-clad women.”
Many of the dozen or so people I interviewed for this story pointed to the rise of the brogrammer—a term that seeks to recast the geek identity with a competitive frat house flavor. The essence of it comes through in comments on the question-and-answer site Quora. “How Does a Programmer Become a Brogrammer?”: Brogrammers “rage at the gym, to attract the chicks and scare the dicks!” They “can work well under the tightest deadlines, or while receiving oral sex.” And they have their priorities straight: “If a girl walks past in a see-through teddy, and you don’t even look up because you’re neck-deep in code, expect to spend a lot of time celibate no matter how bro you go.”
http://www.motherjones.com/