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- September 1, 2009 – 7:28 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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./ The first tipoff for me was that I do not have a SunEast account. I called the number (which also appears to be associated with another business) and it just rang endlessly, so I am not sure if their system is working quite right; but I believe what is supposed to happen is that a voicemail picks up indicating that you should leave a message with some personal information – your banking password, credit card number, SSN, etc – which then the criminals can use to their advantage. Is this becoming more popular? This is….
Categories: Site Updates
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- July 1, 2008 – 4:00 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 neighbor/friend/relative and tell them what phishing is and how they can protect themselves. 3. Learn more about malware that can infect your computer on Stopbadware.org.
Categories: Site Updates
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- May 27, 2008 – 11:55 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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
Categories: Site Updates
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- February 17, 2008 – 1:33 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 save on one of the most expensive household bills if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of the convenience of having either a cable box or DVR. The main question you will need to ask yourself is what shows you actually enjoy watching. Several name brand shows are now available online in free, ad supported formats; if your particular shows are not available then you may be stuck with your cable company, at least for now. More and more shows are always coming online, so keep checking back to see if your favorite show….
Categories: Reviews,Site Updates,Television
Tagged: Ditch Your Cable Company, web application
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- January 31, 2008 – 4:31 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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, it just sort of hung while installing grub. GREAT. I reboot and it kicks me to a (grub) standard prompt. It took me a while to figure this out, but you can manually boot Ubuntu via the grub prompt. The tricky part is finding out the right commands since your system is totally inaccessible. You can find your available hard drive name by typing: 1> root ( <tab> pressing tab will list your available hard drives and partitions and hopefully your Ubuntu ext3 partition. Continue setting the root boot partition. This includes your partition….
Categories: Linux,Site Updates,System Administration,Ubuntu
Tagged: boot, grub, Ubuntu
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- January 2, 2008 – 10:22 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 thing stopping me, and I am sure a lot of people, from adopting Skype full on. Many people block Unknown numbers, or won’t answer if they see 0012345678 calling them! On that topic… Skype Journal is a really great blog with regards to Skype and VOIP in general. If you are interested in VOIP, I would check it out!
Categories: Other Technology,Programs,Site Updates,Software
Tagged: caller id, caller identification, cellular telephone, skype, United States, VOIP
