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What is professional development? It is pretty much anything that helps one develop professionally. At the heart, professional development is about growth and learning. In the field of education, it seems like many quickly think of educational opportunities that mimic what they see in their schools. As a result, they turn professional learning and education into schooling. The problem with that is that schooling is too limiting. In this age, there are many other exciting and high-impact learning opportunities for teachers that extend beyond traditional notions of schooling. When we hear the phrase “professional development,” certain practices likely come to mind, things like in-services and conferences. In the digital age, there are countless other opportunities for professional development and restricting one’s thoughts to just a few options limits our insight into what is possible for our students. With that in mind, here is a brainstorm of 20 options available to educators today. This is far from an exhaustive list, but it is enough to start exploring the possibilities. Feel free to suggest others in a comment to this post. Learn more: Professional Development: WHY EDUcators And TEACHers Can’t Catch UP THAT Quickly AND How-To Change It LEARNing To LEARN For MY Professional Development | I Did It MY Way
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Des pirates s’appuient sur des fausses pubs pour diffuser à des millions d'internautes un malware particulièrement sophistiqué, qui s’appuie sur de multiples techniques de dissimulation. Voilà encore une preuve que les cybercriminels deviennent de plus en plus malins. Les chercheurs en sécurité d'Eset viennent de mettre la main sur un malware qui exploite des failles dans Internet Explorer et Flash Player, et dont le code est caché directement dans les pixels d'une image de publicité. C’est pourquoi il a été baptisé « Stegano », en référence à la stéganographie, l’art de dissimuler des messages secrets dans des choses en apparence anodines, comme ici une pub en ligne. L’impact de ce malware, en revanche, est loin d’être anodin. Selon Eset, la publicité vérolée a été diffusée entre autres sur des sites d’actualités très populaires, lui permettant d’être affichée par « plus d’un million d’internautes », explique Robert Lipovsky, l’un des chercheurs d’Eset, dans une note de blog. L’attaque se déroule de façon totalement automatique, la victime n’a pas même pas besoin de cliquer sur la publicité. D’après les chercheurs, Stegano a été utilisé par les cybercriminels pour installer sur les machines des victimes des chevaux de Trois bancaires, des portes dérobées et des logiciels espions. Mais en théorie, il n’y a pas vraiment de limite. « Les victimes pourraient également être confrontées à de méchantes attaques de ransomware », souligne Robert Lipovsky. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Steganography
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What is professional development? It is pretty much anything that helps one develop professionally. At the heart, professional development is about growth and learning. In the field of education, it seems like many quickly think of educational opportunities that mimic what they see in their schools. As a result, they turn professional learning and education into schooling. The problem with that is that schooling is too limiting. In this age, there are many other exciting and high-impact learning opportunities for teachers that extend beyond traditional notions of schooling. When we hear the phrase “professional development,” certain practices likely come to mind, things like in-services and conferences. In the digital age, there are countless other opportunities for professional development and restricting one’s thoughts to just a few options limits our insight into what is possible for our students. With that in mind, here is a brainstorm of 20 options available to educators today. This is far from an exhaustive list, but it is enough to start exploring the possibilities. Feel free to suggest others in a comment to this post. Learn more: Professional Development: WHY EDUcators And TEACHers Can’t Catch UP THAT Quickly AND How-To Change It LEARNing To LEARN For MY Professional Development | I Did It MY Way
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Cryptolunch.lu, la cybersécurité à la portée des citoyens
Cryptolunch.lu est un évènement gratuit, organisé au Luxembourg, dédié à l'information des citoyens européens à la protection de la vie privée et la sécurité en ligne.
L'utilisation massive des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Information a fait évoluer les limites entre vie privée et vie publique. Alors que nous sommes toujours plus connectés, une masse exponentielle de données personnelles nous concernant est échangée, tant en ligne que hors ligne. La vie privée est pourtant un droit qu'il est important de défendre.
Organisé en partenariat entre la maison de l'Europe et Securitymadein.lu, la finalité des cryptolunch est de mettre à disposition un lieu de rencontre où les citoyens européens auront l'opportunité de s'entretenir avec des experts en sécurité afin d'obtenir des informations sur des sujets tels que la vie privée et la sécurité numérique.
Créé afin de permettre à un public non spécialisé d'obtenir des réponses claires et simples à ses questions, ce rassemblement est idéal pour répondre aux attentes de profils très variées en termes de sécurité sur Internet. Learn more: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=ENCRYPTION
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How can we create organizations and governments that are cooperative, productive, and creative? These are the questions of social physics, and they are especially important right now, because of global competition, environmental challenges, and government failure.
The engine that drives social physics is big data: the newly ubiquitous digital data that is becoming available about all aspects of human life. By using these data to build a predictive, computational theory of human behavior we can hope to engineer better social systems.
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Russian hackers are stealing between $3 million to $5 million per day from US brands and media companies in one of the most lucrative botnet operations ever discovered.
On December 20, researchers from White Ops said the scheme, dubbed "Methbot," is a Russian operation set up to watch up to 300 million video-based adverts automatically every day.
These adverts, displayed on legitimate domains owned by companies including the Huffington Post, Economist, Fortune, ESPN, Vogue, CBS Sports, and Fox News, are used to generate additional revenue through advertising sponsors which help keep these businesses afloat.
However, White Ops says Methbot capitalizes on this revenue generation by targeting the most expensive advertising on the web -- such as full-blown video adverts on branded websites -- and is programmed to show signs of "engagement" to fool ad providers into thinking the content is being watched legitimately.
Faked clicks, mouse movements, social network login information, and typical "working hours" are all methods to keep the operation under wraps. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=cybercrime
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The web design platform Weebly was hacked in February, according to the data breach notification site LeakedSource. Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach, although the passwords are secured with the strong hashing algorithm bcrypt.
Weebly said in an email to customers that user IP addresses were also taken in the breach.
“We do not believe that any customer website has been improperly accessed,” Weebly said in the notice to users.” The company also said that it does not store credit card information, making fraudulent charges unlikely.
LeakedSource said it received the Weebly database from an anonymous source and notified Weebly of the breach. In addition to the customer notification emails, LeakedSource claims that password resets are being issued — but, if you’re a Weebly user and you don’t receive a password reset, you probably want to change your password anyway. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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If your organisation does business within the European Union or collects data on European citizens you’ve likely been told about the newly approved EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force in spring 2018.
The GDPR will increase privacy for individuals and give regulatory authorities greater powers to take action against businesses that breach the law.
Are you prepared to take the steps necessary for compliance? Here’s a brief overview of everything you need to know about the new Regulation and what it means for your business. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/
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It’s inspiring — in a crazy sort of way — to consider how efficient Google can be in keeping track of information about you. Today, Google announced the launch of “Your Timeline,” a tool in Google Maps that shares with you all the places you have been. It works if you chose to store your Location History with Google.
Product manager Gerard Sanz detailed the feature in blog post, as the company gradually rolls out the timeline for Maps users.
It could definitely serve as a convenience. What with our busy lives, sometimes it’s hard to remember all the stops along the way. Google sees Your Timeline as a way to quickly recall, and even view your past whereabouts.
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