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5/25/2007 What do women want?: an investigation of career anchors among women in the IT workforceI’ve found today an interesting article conducted by Penn State stating why women stay away from IT jobs… it is worth the reading: In an attempt to address the under representation of women in the information technology (IT) workforce it is important to understand the values and motivations of female professionals. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to examine career anchors of women in the IT workforce and how these factors are manifested in their careers. In doing so, we examine data from a field study of 92 female IT practitioners. Three important findings resulted from this exploration. First, technical competence and managerial competence are mutually exclusive. Second, a combination of career anchors for a given individual can be found. Third, career anchors vary in terms of temporal characteristics. You could download the full study here:
5/12/2007 Cracking hi-tech crimeThe BBC has created a special section in their website specially dedicated to combat cybercrime. It is worth a look if you would like to get an idea of what bad boys are doing during these days. Link here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2006/hi_tech_crime/default.stm The ghost in the browserA study from Google Researcher Niels Provos called "The Ghost in the Browser" has been publicly published online. This study shows some analysis of Web-based Malware and the raise of this type of attack. You could find it here: www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf Google searches web's dark sideOne in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Interesting article at the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6645895.stm 5/11/2007 Yahoo phishing on the raise..The Symantec Security Response team has recently received multiple reports of phishing attacks using Yahoo Instant Messenger, potentially causing users to unknowingly provide their Yahoo login credentials to a phishing web page. Phishing attacks are an ongoing risk that we should always be cautious of; however, specific examples of Yahoo phishing have been seen during the past couple of weeks. Please use caution when receiving Yahoo instant messages with links included in the text, especially any links that require you to login to another website. There are several phishing web pages involved in the recent attacks, one of which is listed below: Ÿ www.geocities.com/piic_v1/index.htm This phishing attack will attempt to use valid Yahoo accounts so that messages sent will appear to come from trusted contacts, so you'll need to keep a keen eye out for strange messages. 5/10/2007 Downing St in Youtube??Believe it or not even the UK Prime Minister has a channel in Youtube... the URL is: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DowningSt Last video is Tony Blair himself congratulating his French counterpart Zarkosy in English and in French! 5/9/2007 Parrillada at the Phoenix ParkSome photos from last weekend parrillada (which i missed because i was away) but nevertheless they look very professional. And Federico could start looking for a job as "parrillero".
Microsoft to buy Yahoo?Rumors, rumors, rumors... apparently this time are more serious as suggested by Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168 Apparently the only way to beat competitors is by doing mergers rather than innovative products. In any case it will become a big thing if this happens as Google now is the leader on this segment. 5/2/2007 Security fear over internet voting in the UKThe UK government yesterday admitted that it was aware of security concerns about internet votes being cast in local elections in England tomorrow.
mmmm.. someone should have done his homework.... full story here: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2070412,00.html
Fabio
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