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Certiport and ETS Announce the Development of iCritical Thinking Certification
Certiport and ETS Announce the Development of iCritical Thinking Certification Powered by ETS
New Certification Program Validating Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in Technology-Enabled Environments Enters Beta Test Period for Slated November 2009 Launch
TORONTO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--In response to the growing need for digitally literate workers and students with in-demand, applied ICT skills, Educational Testing Service and Certiportthe acknowledged leaders in educational assessment and certificationhave developed a new certification program: iCritical Thinking Certification powered by ETS.
The core of the iCritical Thinking Certification program is an outcomes-based examination that can be used to assess and validate critical thinking and problem solving skills in technology-enabled academic and workplace environments.
The iCritical Thinking Certification exam measures the range of cognitive and applied ICT...
Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
LAS VEGAS - A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.
The service - called Computrace LoJack for Laptops - contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication that can lead to “a complete and persistent compromise of an affected system,” according to Black Hat conference presentation by researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies.
Computrace LoJack for Laptops, which is is pre-installed on about 60 percent of all new laptops, is a software agent that lives in the BIOS and periodically calls home to a central authority for instructions in case a laptop is stolen. The call-home mechanism allows the central authority to instruct the BIOS agent to...
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.
Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.
Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.
But last year it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.
Full story : here
Microsoft in new EU browser offer
Microsoft in new EU browser offer
Microsoft has made a new proposal to European competition regulators that it hopes will end their row over the firm's Internet Explorer web browser.
It proposes that European buyers of its new Windows 7 operating system will be offered a list of potential browsers when they first install the software.
The move comes a month after Microsoft said European buyers of Windows 7 would have to download a web browser.
Brussels ruled in January that pre-bundling Explorer hurt competition.
Full story : here
Sophos slams 'Uncle Spam'
Sophos slams 'Uncle Spam'
IT security firm Sophos has slammed the US for failing to get its own house in order before taking a leading role in tackling cyber-crime in its latest report on spam trends.
Sophos claims that during Q2/2009, the US continued to relay more spam than any other global nation with the countrys 15.6 per cent contribution to global spam traffic meaning that one-in-six junk emails were sent through compromised computers in there.
Article: Here
-Ken
Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree.
This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community. The Redmondians have released various pieces of code under different open-source licenses over the past few years, but this is the first time Microsoft has released Linux code and the first time the company has used the GPL license to release code, I believe. (Anyone know otherwise?) My ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow says Microsoft previously released part of the Linux Integration Components under the GPL, so this isnt technically the first-ever GPLd code from the Softies.
Microsoft made the Linux driver announcement on July 20, the opening day of the OReilly OSCON open-source conference.
(The driver news also comes a week after...
Most IT pros not planning on Windows 7 rollout
Most IT pros not planning on Windows 7 rollout
The recessionary squeeze on IT departments' manpower and finances will hinder the rollout of Windows 7, according to a major poll of IT professionals.
Nearly 60 per cent of those in small, medium and large organizations currently have no plans whatsoever to deploy Microsoft's next client, says Windows management specialist ScriptLogic's survey.
Thirty-four per cent said they were likely to deploy by the end of 2010, approximately a year after Windows 7 ships. The operating system is due on October 22, 2009.
Article: Here
-Ken
Compliments to Modey for the find
Tagging technology to track trash
Tagging technology to track trash
The ebb and flow of thousands of pieces of household rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags.
It is hoped that making people confront the final journey of their waste will make them reduce what they throw away.
Initially, 3,000 pieces of rubbish, donated by volunteers, will be tagged in New York, Seattle and London.
"Trash is almost an invisible system today," Assaf Biderman, one of the project leaders at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told BBC News.
"You throw something into the garbage and a lot of us forget about it. It gets buried, it gets burned, it gets shipped overseas."
The Trash Track aims to make that process - termed the "removal chain" - more transparent.
Friends of the Earth's Senior Waste Campaigner Michael Warhurst said the project could be a "useful tool" for highlighting the impact of rubbish.
"[Waste] doesn't simply disappear when we...
Snooping through the power socket
Snooping through the power socket
Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.
Security researchers found that poor shielding on some keyboard cables means useful data can be leaked about each character typed.
By analysing the information leaking onto power circuits, the researchers could see what a target was typing.
The attack has been demonstrated to work at a distance of up to 15m, but refinement may mean it could work over much longer distances.
Full story : here
IT managers are 'still being hired'
IT managers are 'still being hired'
Companies are still looking to take on IT managers despite the impact of the economic downturn, one recruitment agency has claimed.
Research from Hays showed that employees who can lead processes and people are the most in demand, Contractor UK reported.
The study showed that despite managerial leaders in the sector being willing to take less money than before and more potential candidates available, suitable applicants for the posts are hard to find.
Full story at the BCS : here
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