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by Delana Gregg

We are thrilled to announce that almost 1,000,000 Treehouse badges have been unlocked to date by Treehouse students!

This is a huge accomplishment for the community and an exciting time for us as it reflects all of the fantastic work and hours you’ve all dedicated to learning. To celebrate this awesome and momentous milestone, we’d like to invite you to join us in the countdown with our One Million Badges Giveaway.

Over the upcoming days we’ll be giving away a variety of prizes, from Treehouse t-shirts, stickers and books for every 1,000 and 5,000 badges unlocked, to a grand prize of an iPad for the student who unlocks the millionth badge, and an additional iPad to another student selected at random on the special day.

Check out our live streaming counter to see how many badges there are left to go and for more details and rules of the giveaway.

We’d also like to say thank you to our students for being inspiring and awesome, we’re so proud of each and every one of you.

Keep on learning, rocking and unlocking those badges!

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When it comes to stock elements, you can’t have to many. Sure, it’s possible that you’ll collect more than you can use in a single career, but the important thing is to have a good body to choose from; you never know when that obscure vector illustration of a cactus may come in handy.

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Bundle Storm must be the bundle to end all bundles. More than 30 other web design bundles have been merged to create one of the best value collections you’ll ever see. Literally thousands of stock photos, vector images, themes, actions, icons, buttons and everything else you could ever want are included.

This huge set of resources has 1800+ isolated stock images, 4500+ high-res textures and patterns, 51000+ Photoshop gradients, 1750+ vector files, 1500+ vector icons, UI kits, Photoshop layer styles, and much much more. You can even create your own company mascot with a 60 piece mix-n-match mascot set. Just look at some of what’s included:

This gargantuan bundle would normally cost $147, and that in itself would be a huge discount; but thanks to MightyDeals.com you can now get this bundle for just $47, that’s an additional saving of 68%!

Have you purchased Bundle Storm? Which resources are your favorite? Let us know in the comments.

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CSEE's Dr. Richard Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, talked with the Baltimore Sun's Scott Dance about international hacktivism following the defacement of a local area website and the recent attack on the New York Times website.

This week the website of the Canton Kayak Club was hacked and the landing page changed to show the image of a man on a horse with a spear and the messages "NO WAR!" and "All Hail the Islamic world, we're here!".

"We have no idea who did it nor why someone would hack our site," club Vice President Cliff Charland said. "It is obviously something we’re not happy about."

The website had been restored to normal as of 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Charland said the club's webmaster was looking to determine how the hack occurred and how it could be prevented in the future. The club has about 500 members, many of whom use the site frequently for information on club events, he said." source