Just received my first SMS “Vishing.” Vishing is where you receive a text message on your cell phone which tells you to call a number for some reason – your credit card was blocked, or something similar. The message I received was: 8665379776@suneast.org()SunEast F.C.U (Card Blocked) Alert. For more information please call 1-866-537-9776. Thank you./ [...]

Visit http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ and report a phishing page this is the response: Report Sent Thanks for sending a report to Google. Now that you’ve done your good deed for the day, feel free to: 1. Take a second to rejoice merrily for doing your part in making the web a safer place. 2. Call/email/write to a [...]

There is a Zero-day Adobe flash exploit being actively distributed in the wild using SQL injection attacks onto many websites (Securityfocus thinks about 20,000 or more). Reported to be a password sniffer. Yet another reason to run the excellent Firefox addon NoScript. Sources: 1, 2

I started writing for MakeUseOf, which is a blog for web application and other free, useful programs! I just posted an article on Ditching your cable company with free, legal alternatives. Summary: Ditching your cable company has never been more viable than it is today. The rise of online, streaming TV shows allows you to [...]

I recently formatted my laptop and installed Windows first, using half of the hard drive, and then installing Ubuntu 7.10 on the other half. It had been a while since I tried Ubuntu – it has a come a long way – but that is another story. The install worked fine, however at the end, [...]

I’ve used RSS readers in the past – they are great for aggregating information from sites which I view. However – adding all of my daily sites, as well as all of my ‘sometimes’ sites I quickly have 50 or 100 RSS Feeds and it is impossible to keep up to date on feeds because [...]

I’m trying to get more people to contact me via Skype rather than cell phone – so feel free to use the ‘Skype Me’ button on the right; or Add me to your contact list. By the way, Skype, why won’t you get Caller ID working for US based phone numbers? This is the only [...]