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EDUCAUSE Recognizes Professional Achievement Using Credly

EDUCAUSE Recognizes Professional Achievement Using Credly | Technology Advances | Scoop.it

Credly provides simple and powerful ways to issue and display digital badges and credentials for achievements. Credly is available on the web, on mobile devices and through the Credly “Open Credit” API, the most advanced means to integrate credit-issuing into any organization’s existing programs.


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Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, February 1, 6:41 PM

Credly is a new online tool from the thinkers at LearningTimes.org.  This is the first truly user friendly, online system for creating digital badges and issuing those badges to acknowledge the special skills and abilities of people working both academic and open resource venues. 


This is a technology to watch! 

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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore | Technology Advances | Scoop.it
You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you.

 

Thanks to an explosion of personal information being stored in the cloud, tricking customer service agents into resetting passwords has never been easier.

 

===> All a hacker has to do is use personal information that’s publicly available on one service to gain entry into another. <===

 

Big THANKS to my online friend Kevin 

https://twitter.com/kevin_corbett  for having shared this link with me

 

Read more, a MUST:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

 


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