The Piratebay Co-founder Arrested.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V4os3iM-dWI/VFicnobwl9I/AAAAAAAADdo/_ks0TA6qSBM/s1600/Fredrik-neij.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V4os3iM-dWI/VFicnobwl9I/AAAAAAAADdo/_ks0TA6qSBM/s1600/Fredrik-neij.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px;">Fredrik Neij</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br />Fredrik Neij,alias TiAMO, is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Asia.Neij had moved to Laos to avoid jail sentenced for his involvement in The Pirate Bay.While driving accross the border from Laos into Thailand,Neij was arrested by Thailand border police under an Interpol warrant.</div> <div div="" id="ad3" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; padding: 10px;"> <br /></div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">All Pirate Bay co-founders went their separate ways with Peter Sunde in Europe,Gottfrid Svartholm in Cambodia and Fredrik Neij moved to Asia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">In 2009,Swedish Court imprisoned Neij and other Pirate Bay co-founders for aiding copyright infringement.He migrated the counter after being released on bail.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">According to Thai authorities Neij and his family members had crossed the border nearly 30 times before being caught.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Peter Sunde is also in custody when he was arrested on May 31,2014 on a farm in Sweden.Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm also </span><a href="http://www.trickbug.com/2014/10/the-pirate-bay-co-founder-found-guilty-in-hacking-case.html" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">arrested in a hacking case</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Police Major General Chartchai Eimsaeng said,"Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, whol uses the alias TiAMO, was detained by immigration police at a checkpoint in Thailand's north-eastern province of Nong Khai."</span></div>

The Piratebay Co-founder Arrested.

Fredrik Neij Fredrik Neij,alias TiAMO, is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Asia.Neij had moved to Laos to avoid j...

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July 2014 Java Security Updates are Now Available for Download

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New Pushdo Malware Hacks 11,000 Computers in Just 24 Hours

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Pushdo was first seen over 7 years ago and was a very prolific virus in 2007.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Now, a new variant of the malware is being updated to leverage a new domain-generation algorithm (DGA) as a fallback mechanism to its normal command-and-control (C&C) communication methods.</div> </div> </div> <div id="aim26978300423608157363" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> DGAs are used to dynamically generating a list of domain names based on an algorithm and only making one live at a time, blocking on ‘seen’ Command & Control domain names becomes nearly impossible.<br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With the help of a DGA, cyber criminals could have a series of advantages like overcoming domain blacklisting, resisting domain takedowns by simply registering another domain generated by the same DGA, avoiding dynamic analysis and extraction of C&C domain names.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> According to researchers at Bitdefender, about 6,000 compromised systems in the 1.5 million-strong botnet now host this new PushDo variant. The most affected countries so far by the new Pushdo variant are in India, Vietnam and Turkey, but systems in the United Kingdom, France and the United States have also been targeted, <a href="http://labs.bitdefender.com/2014/07/pushdo-sinkholing-continues-size-of-problem-now-apparent/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; color: #3d5a99; cursor: url(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/cursors/cur-2/cur116.cur), progress; display: block; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; transition: all 0.4s;" target="_blank">according</a> to the security software firm <i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bitdefender</i>.<br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">MOST AFFECTED COUNTRIES</b><br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 10px 10px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vietnam - 1319</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">India - 1297</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Indonesia - 610</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">United States - 559</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Turkey - 507</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iran, Islamic Republic of - 402</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thailand - 345</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Argentina - 315</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Italy - 302</li> <li style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(220, 220, 255, 0.4) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 100%); border-bottom-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.4); border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgba(200, 200, 255, 0.498039); border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mexico - 274</li> </ul> The Romanian firm reckons 77 systems have been compromised in the UK just in the past 24 hours, with more than 11,000 infections reported worldwide over the same period of time.</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-left-color: rgb(191, 202, 218); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> “<i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">We managed to successfully intercept Pushdo traffic and gain some idea of the size of this botnet,</i>” states Catalin Cosoi, chief security strategist at Bitdefender.</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-left-color: rgb(191, 202, 218); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> “<i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The sheer scale of this criminal operation, unsophisticated as it may be, is rather troubling and there are indications that the botnet is still in a growth phase. We shall be continuing our investigation as a key priority and further updates shall be made available in the coming days.</i>”</blockquote> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Despite four takedowns in past years of PushDo command-and-control (C&C) servers, the botnet endures, evolving and flourishing by continuously adding evasion techniques to mask its C&C communications.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Apart from DGA, attackers have also resurfaced the public and private encryption keys used to protect the communication between the bots and the Command and Control Servers, but the protocol used for the communication remained the same.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> They have also added an “<i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">encrypted overlay</i>” to the latest Pushdo binaries, which acts as a “<i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">checkup</i>,” making sure the malware sample doesn't run properly unless certain conditions specified in the overlay are not met, said the blog post.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> This new approach of cyber criminals would make life harder for the FBI and law enforcement agencies who are trying every effort to take down Botnets across the world.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Reference- http://thehackernews.com/</div> </div> </div>

New Pushdo Malware Hacks 11,000 Computers in Just 24 Hours

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Remove Yourself From Google

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <img height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxesu23AnAmI78ZiXBQyrpgJwowWL2Yq7KoH37GetYvCnz3OUT0jDJkUDnBELKO4tvaUedIH1V1hFKAs4HTbW0_91XUpeokvUCgPRVcRN0oK7Fk_tm6oGpGGg1Q4HLibzY3FcBNIKTb3k/s320/remove+yourself+from+google.JPG" style="background-color: transparent;" width="320" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica, sans-serif', serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica, sans-serif', serif;">Last month, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the highest court in Europe in matters of law) made the landmark decision that Google and other search engines must now remove links to content about people if they request it. This right to be forgotten ruling Is proving divisive, because although It protects individuals’ privacy, It also means that career criminals, corrupt politicians and other people with something to hide can effectively edit their pasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <br /></div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica, sans-serif', serif;">In <i>this blog, </i>we frequently provide advice on staying anonymous online, from using VPN services to disguise your identity and location to tightening up your Facebook privacy settings.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica, sans-serif', serif;">However, at the same time, we're opposed to the idea of internet censorship.In this feature, we look at both sides of the story, explaining how you can delete all your personal information from Google and other online services, while looking at why that might not always be a good thing.</span></div> </div>

Remove Yourself From Google

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App that lets you chat without data connection!!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimujDuVIqKgGVRGMHutAOSuzwA4NrEJKOXklkIrPViEzgG8w9xUtt3zwyFa0LeHAOVPMmtgduNyIQTJW46rLCw-bWM-EgEqxVXp46PEs1OHiplTHhNPlf_4kTIyoPlnQunzPXl-b5qkw2o/s1600/firechat.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimujDuVIqKgGVRGMHutAOSuzwA4NrEJKOXklkIrPViEzgG8w9xUtt3zwyFa0LeHAOVPMmtgduNyIQTJW46rLCw-bWM-EgEqxVXp46PEs1OHiplTHhNPlf_4kTIyoPlnQunzPXl-b5qkw2o/s200/firechat.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Move over WhatsApp. Here comes a revolutionary chatting App that has taken the mobile messaging to another level.  With this, you are able to send and receive messages even when you do not have an actual internet or wi-fi data connection.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">             Yes, you read it right.  This iOS-enabled App uses Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity framework — essentially a peer-to-peer feature that lets you share messages with other App users nearby.  </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">“FireChat allows the device to connect directly to others nearby using Bluetooth, peer-to-peer wi-fi or traditional wi-fi networks so you do not actually need a data connection,”</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">     Micha Benoliel, CEO of Open Garden firm that developed the App was quoted as saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">The Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity APIs can be used for everything from collaborative editing and file sharing, to multiplayer gaming and sensor aggregation, said a report in wired.com.  How does it function?  The App browses for other users nearby while simultaneously broadcasting to peers that it is available to connect to.  This allows you to be invited into a “</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">session</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">” with multiple users.Once a session invitation is accepted, you can directly communicate with those other users independent of a cellular signal or Wi-Fi access.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">This creates what is called “wireless mesh network”.  According to Benoliel, “Messages also get deleted as soon as you close the App so you remain anonymous.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">However, in “Nearby” mode, you do not have any choice over who receives your messages — they go out to anyone within range, the report added.  Apple sold 700 million iOS devices by last October. Many are already using the latest Multipeer Connectivity-supporting version of iOS.  Within a week of its launch, FireChat has been being downloaded from the App Store more than 100,000 times a day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">You can download the official app from<b> </b></span><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8" style="background-color: white; color: #0889c4; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-decoration: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">.</span></b></div>

App that lets you chat without data connection!!!

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How to avoid phishing scam

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk10Uz0ACxH_W8SK5vNmlQnwdxpvY0iNfAbeFip22ggc3qDN6NkgXD1F4ISKuKlJT1Z4Ou4maa2nZ_5Kjm4XTGQaVpSKqor5r_hYLtxYTvoXCK493eyNAV9PbZwlRXx-vH44j9738nEjyz/s1600/avoiding-phishing-emails.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk10Uz0ACxH_W8SK5vNmlQnwdxpvY0iNfAbeFip22ggc3qDN6NkgXD1F4ISKuKlJT1Z4Ou4maa2nZ_5Kjm4XTGQaVpSKqor5r_hYLtxYTvoXCK493eyNAV9PbZwlRXx-vH44j9738nEjyz/s1600/avoiding-phishing-emails.png" width="200" /></a>As online fraud remains a consistent problem for nearly 300,000,000 Americans who use the internet daily, it’s important to stay updated and informed on the newest forms of fraud that are a constant threat to our online security. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns internet users about “phishing” emails, a scam that is becoming an increasing problem and is proving to be very costly for employers. Chubbworks even published an article recently discussing email scams and surveyed how many people had actually received a phishing email themselves, a majority have.<br /> <br />  Avoiding-Phishing-Emails<br /> <br /> The latest versions of these scams are showing up in the form of emails from trusted organizations such as the BBB or United States Postal Service (USPS). The emails are sent by hackers asking you to submit information or to follow links that gather, or “phish,” for your personal data which may include banking information, usernames, and/or passwords. These emails will oftentimes deliver a nasty virus to your computer system. Once your computer is infected, you become vulnerable to serious potential security risks. So how can you avoid this from happening to you? Here are four things you should know:<br /> <br /> 1. Make sure to pay attention to spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in emails.<br />  A fortune 500 company (or any large reputable business) is very unlikely to release an email blast riddled with misspellings.<br /> <br /> 2. Hold your cursor (don’t click) over any suspicious links.<br /> This will show you the URL that you are about to click. If the URL doesn’t contain the company name in the first part of the domain [www.company.com], it’s probably a scam.<br /> a. For example, if you were to receive an email that looks like it came from the United States Postal Service (USPS) and it asks you to click a link and that link doesn’t start with http://www.usps.com in the URL, it’s very likely it’s a phishing scam!<br /> <br /> 3. Keep your antivirus software up-to-date.<br /> Antivirus software helps to shield your computer from internet threats and those software updates are important because your program should be constantly evolving based on new hacker threats.<br /> <br /> 4. Last and certainly not least, educate your staff.<br />  Make sure that they are aware of the caution they need to take when clicking links inside an email. Your staff should understand the potential consequences of getting a computer virus and how it could affect your clients (remember the Target fiasco last Thanksgiving?)<br /> <br /> With so much information being stored on the web in today’s business world, it is important to be cautious with your personal data and information. Stay secure, and stay informed, so you don’t take the bait and put yourself at risk!<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div>

How to avoid phishing scam

As online fraud remains a consistent problem for nearly 300,000,000 Americans who use the internet daily, it’s important to stay updated an...

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