The News Review:
- Tales from a smart school pioneer
- Shoot it both ways
- Cyberspies exploit Microsoft ffice
Tales from a smart school pioneer
Malaysia Star – Apr 22, 2007
Filepic “I wanted to prove that even someone from my generation could learn to use computers. Even though I was a bit technophobic in the beginning and afraid that one wrong touch of the key could send my computer crashing I overcame my fear and later I even learnt to do my own Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. “By taking the lessons I had a better understanding of computers and saw how they could enhance our education system” shares Noor Rezan now Schools Division director at the Education Ministry. She was chosen to become principal of SMK (P) Bukit Bintang (Bukit Bintang Girls’ School or fondly known by many as BBGS) on Dec 16 1998. But instead of moving into the school’s new premises in Taman Shamelin Perkasa in Cheras Kuala Lumpur from Jalan Bukit Bintang as planned there was an unexpected setback. “We arrived at our new school with 11 lorry loads of boxes imagine how we felt when we were told that the new building had a structural problem and we had to go back to our old premises! “Then we found out that computers would not be supplied at the old school” she says.
Shoot it both ways
Malaysia Star – Apr 21, 2007
com for more information. Which is why the Toshiba TLP-XC2500 LCD (below)projector should be of interest unlike most other digital projectors this one has a built-in overhead camera that records and projects paper slides on to a big screen in real time. Its built-in light means that you can present in a dark room too. And best of all the TLP-XC2500 is a rather good XGA-resolution projector with a high brightness of 2500 ANSI lumens excellent contrast and very good colours. The projector costs RM6399.
Cyberspies exploit Microsoft ffice
USA Today – Apr 22, 2007
At a congressional hearing last week on cybersecurity Donald Reid a senior State Department official described how an employee in May clicked on a Word document corrupted via a security hole for which Microsoft had no patch. A fix wasn’t available until eight weeks later. Microsoft has issued 10 patches for security holes in ffice programs since January 2006 including a handful delivered only after crooks began using newly discovered flaws in their attacks. The best protection: keeping ffice security patches updated. The ffice file attacks are “very targeted and very limited” says Mark Miller Microsoft’s director of security response who called on workers “to absolutely extend extreme caution” when opening ffice files in e-mail. Microsoft has been slow to patch security holes in ffice programs says Zwienenberg. “But the cybercriminals are getting smarter and smarter.