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Hacked! Lessons Learned From An Url Injection, Ayyoub Ajmi Jan 2015

Hacked! Lessons Learned From An Url Injection, Ayyoub Ajmi

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Starting in the year 2014, people've seen an increasing number of cyber attacks targeting all sorts of organizations. These have cost the US economy billions of dollars and exposed the private data of millions of individuals. While most of them are designed to steal trade secrets, credit card information, or even celebrities' personal information, there are still other attacks targeting individuals and small organizations with the sole goal of spreading malware and promoting shady businesses. This is URL injection. The big lesson they learned from this experience is the need for a healthy cross-departmental collaboration. Teaming up with the main …


Google Glass For The Educator: A Postmortem Separating The Reality From The Hype And Some Thoughts For Google, Michael J. Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi Jan 2015

Google Glass For The Educator: A Postmortem Separating The Reality From The Hype And Some Thoughts For Google, Michael J. Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi

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On Jan 15, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported Google was winding down the explorers program" and will stop selling Glass, except to companies and developers. Google is moving the project to another Google unit to continue exploration and development of the product, but its precise future is currently unclear. This article was being developed before Google pulled the plug. It was clear to them after extensive use that Glass was a potentially wonderful device, but, at the moment, it won't solve any specific need that can't be fixed using other more affordable and less intrusive mobile devices. Although these …