A security flaw affecting two thirds of websites is a reminder that the Web relies on a poorly resourced open source project.
Late yesterday we learned that a two thirds of the world’s websites have a major security vulnerability that could be used to crack encrypted connections and steal user passwords or a company’s encryption keys. The news set system administrators for the estimated 117,000 servers affected (including at major companies like Yahoo) scrambling to roll out a fix. It is also leading some people to ponder why the widely-used software in which the critical bug was found doesn’t get better support.
]]>A security flaw affecting two-thirds of websites is a reminder that the Web relies on a poorly resourced open-source project.
Late yesterday we learned that a two-thirds of the world’s websites have a major security vulnerability that could be used to crack encrypted connections and steal user passwords or a company’s encryption keys. The news set system administrators for the estimated 117,000 servers affected (including at major companies like Yahoo) scrambling to roll out a fix. It is also leading some people to ponder why the widely-used software in which the critical bug was found doesn’t get better support.
]]>It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 85 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about CSS and Sass styleguides, HTML frameworks, Flexbox and more.
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]]>With over 10,000 cyber security-related job postings last year in Maryland, a 97% increase in the past 5 years, the number of cyber security jobs in Maryland is growing faster than the national average, the Baltimore Business Journal reported on March 5. Baltimore alone had 4,514 cyber jobs posted in 2013. However, with the demand for jobs outgrowing supply rapidly, the issue at hand is not simply finding employees to fill those positions, but finding employees who are experienced enough and capable of filing those positions. This could indicate why it took cyber security jobs 36% longer to fill than all jobs nationally last year. Approximately 80% of job postings require candidates to have a bachelor’s degree at the very least and more than 60% require candidates to have at least four years of experience, signifying that education and experience plays a key factor in the selection process.
Read the full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/blog/cyberbizblog/2014/03/cyber-security-jobs-baltimore-maryland.html?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2014-03-05
]]>UMBC Relationship Violence Prevention Advocates
Position Description (Fall, 2014)
(applications accepted on a rolling basis from April 18 through August 8)
The UMBC Relationship Violence Prevention Advocates program is a comprehensive program funded by a grant from Verizon. The program changes each year and is designed to educate the UMBC Community on specific relationship violence prevention information. The goals of the program are to systematically raise awareness and support for a campus to be without relationship violence and create an environment that encourages healthy relationships and the victims of relationship violence to come forward and receive support. Specific components of the program include:
· Relationship violence prevention education and training for volunteer students, faculty and staff advocates who represent various groups and populations on campus. These advocates will help to educate the campus community about relationship violence prevention through their networks, and serve as referral sources for those who have experienced or are impacted by relationship abuse/violence or have questions about unhealthy relationships.
· Training for UMBC athletic coaches
· Relationship Skills Program via the UMBC Counseling Center
· Awareness, Education and Resources through www.umbc.edu/rvap
· Bystander Intervention training through the Green Dot program (VP Student Affairs Office)
General Description:
UMBC Relationship Violence Prevention Advocates are UMBC community members who: a) are able to provide relationship/dating/intimate partner violence prevention information to their community networks, b) observe the UMBC community and take notice of and report community issues related to relationship violence to advocate trainers, c) encourage bystander intervention techniques within UMBC community network, d) make appropriate referrals, e) provide helpful resource information to their UMBC community network and individuals, f) support violence prevention efforts on campus, and g) volunteer to staff events (tabling, etc).
1. Must attend training on August 25, 2014 from 9:30am-4pm
2. Must attend the following Friday meetings at noon- August 29; September 5, 12, 19; October 3, 17, 31; November 14; December 5
3. Must share educational information with your network of friends, colleagues, student organizations, team members, and at campus events
4. Must utilize skills to make referrals, provide resources, intervene safely when necessary using bystander intervention skills.
Training topics for advocates will include: characteristics of unhealthy relationships, domestic violence and abuse, healthy relationship skills, bystander intervention, on and off campus resources, helping and referral skills, men’s role in preventing violence, presentation skills, changing culture, identity group needs, etc.
