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• ‘Good Guy’ Hackers Are Cracking Codes for Change—and Profit
• 6 Personal Finance Lessons All High School Graduates Should Know
• See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist
• China leads BRICS nations in higher education: survey

‘Good Guy’ Hackers Are Cracking Codes for Change—and Profit Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:48 PM PDT Hear the word hacker, and strong images come to mind: a shady, unshaven young man, perhaps, hunched over a glowing computer screen in a basement somewhere, using his skills to steal credit card numbers, drain a bank account, or obtain government secrets. The goal is "to protect systems by learning the techniques that the bad guys use," said Stephen Cobb, a senior researcher at ESET North America, an international cybersecurity firm that tests corporate and business websites for vulnerabilities. His company is a sponsor of Cyber Boot Camp, a week-long hacking seminar for promising San Diego high school students.  White-hat hackers are to computer programmers as editors are to writers, he said: "If you do it yourself, you don't always see the flaws."

6 Personal Finance Lessons All High School Graduates Should Know Posted: 18 Jun 2014 06:20 AM PDT Only 17 states in the U.S. require high school students to take a personal finance course, according to a 2014 survey by the Council for Economic Education. Whether they're going on to college, entering the working world, joining the service or traveling, high school graduates should know these personal finance basics.

See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:22 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's a look at the who, what, when and where of the 2016 presidential contest at the cusp of summer. Why? Because more is going on than you might think two years from the event.

China leads BRICS nations in higher education: survey Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:46 PM PDT Chinese universities led the rankings in a survey of schools from the five major developing "BRICS" nations, a survey said on Wednesday, despite problems including restrictions on academic freedom. China took six of the top 10 slots in a study of schools there and in Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa by the London-based rankings firm QS. The report placed Tsinghua and Peking University, both in Beijing, in first and second place, and said China was "the most likely of the BRICS nations to achieve its goal of developing world-class universities".

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