It's Computer Science Education Week and schools across the country have kicked off the Hour of Code campaign.

In the state of Massachusetts:

• There are 20,499 open computing jobs in the sate of Massachusetts alone.
• That number is growing at 3.2x the state average!
• There are 2,134 computer science graduates.
• Only 120 schools teach computer science.

The Hour of Code is an opportunity for every student to try computer science for one hour. During Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15), we're making history and recruiting 10 million to join in and do the Hour of Code.

Source: HourOfCode.org

How's this for irony? Mark Zuckerberg's wall got hacked....warning him of a security problem.

A Palestinian IT expert who claimed to have discovered a Facebook vulnerability said he took his bug report to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after being ignored by the social network's security team.

The vulnerability allows anyone to post anything to anyone else's page, regardless of whether they are a Facebook friend of that person, Khalil Shreateh wrote in a blog post Saturday. Shreateh initially reported the vulnerability through Facebook's "white hat" security disclosure service, which offers a minimum bounty of $500 for legitimate bugs.

However, despite including a demonstration of the bug executed on the Facebook page of Zuckerberg pal Sarah Goodwin, Shreateh was told by a Facebook security engineer in a terse note that "sorry this is not a bug."

Undaunted, Shreateh decided to share his experience with Zuckerberg by posting a note to the Facebook founder's page that apologized for the post but said he had "no other choice."

"[A] couple of days ago I discovered a serious Facebook exploit that allows users to post to other Facebook users timeline while they are not in friend list," Shreateh wrote in his post to Zuckerberg's timeline. "I appreciate your time reading this and getting some one from your company team to contact me."

Within minutes, Shreateh was contacted by a Facebook security seeking details of the exploit, Shreateh said, adding that his own Facebook account was quickly disabled. A security engineer told Shreateh his account had been disabled as a "precaution."

"When we discovered your activity we did not fully know what was happening," an engineer who identified himself as "Joshua" told Shreateh. "Unfortunately your report to our Whitehat system did not have enough technical information for us to take action on it. We cannot respond to reports which do not contain enough detail to allow us to reproduce an issue."

Joshua also informed Shreateh that he would not be receiving a bug reward for reporting the exploit because he violated the site's terms of service. "We do hope, however, that you continue to work with us to find vulnerabilities in the site," he wrote.

A Facebook security engineer responded Saturday in a Hacker News post that the vulnerability was fixed Thursday and conceded that Shreateh should have been asked for more details on the issue after his initial report. Along with offering inadequate information about the bug, Shreateh's post to Zuckerberg's timeline violated the social network's responsible disclosure policy, the security engineer wrote.

"Exploiting bugs to impact real users is not acceptable behavior for a white hat," the engineer wrote, adding that researchers are allowed to create test accounts to aid their research.

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Source: CNET

We all know "that" business. The one we envy and want to be. Here's how to accomplish just that...

Every now and then we come across that business - the business we envy - the business that's been around forever - the business that never makes a mistake, pushes all the right buttons and never loses its step. We want to be that business. But how do we get that point?

Learn From Your Mistakes
Businesses run into a lot of roadblocks. We constantly hear about the struggles of small businesses, where things went wrong in certain companies, and how to move forward. Sometimes it's hard to recover from mistakes; either our pride or egos take a big hit or we suffer a huge financial blow. Regardless, making mistakes is part of the process of running any business. From those mistakes we better understand what path to take our businesses as we learn that certain paths just plain aren't working out.

Nobody's perfect. Even Mark Zuckerberg makes mistakes. The key is that we don't keep repeating the same mistakes and are willing to admit that something has gone wrong.

Regret is only natural, especially when we sink a lot of time and money into a project that flops. In reality, it's just another lesson learned. This is a tough pill to swallow, but consider your mistakes as an opportunity for your business to ask more questions, set better goals and determine where it needs to go.

Wise Businesses Don't Waste Time
Businesses can't afford to waste time. This may sound like an extremely elementary principle; however, many small businesses sink their time and money into various avenues in order to avoid the reality of business. Being a small business owner isn't temporary. It's a commitment. Moreover, it's a lifestyle.

It's often said that "you get out what you put in". So, what are you putting into your business? What do you expect to get out of it? Many people turn to entrepreneurship because they want to be their own boss or their sick of the 9-to-5 grind. For such people, the reality of today's business world is sobering. It's definitely a challenge; however, the rewards are great for those who manage to stick it out.

Wise Businesses Know the Value of a Dollar
Time is money. Just as businesses today can't afford to waste time, they also can't afford to waste precious capital.

Companies like Apple, Starbucks and Dell all came from next to nothing. Small investments don't seem so small when their applied to big ideas and innovations. Entrepreneurs have proven that you can build an empire from your parent's garage or with next to nothing.

What is your business capable of? How far can you stretch a dollar? Keep such questions in mind before you splash cash on your business.
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