Phishing attempts have turned to scare tactics under the guise of the FBI. I've copied the message below for your entertainment and education. The e-mail addresses involved in this phish include: fbisecurity@w.cn, federalbureauf8@gmail.com, and ufbi@ymail.com. These e-mails should be discarded and treated as a scam falsely sent under the name of John Francis Pikus. … [Read more...]
College Students Get a Free Year of Amazon Prime With Amazon Student
I just found out about this offer that Amazon has going for college students. The program is fittingly called Amazon Student. Since I'm going back for some classes this fall I can take advantage of it too! The deal in summary gets you a free, year-long membership to Amazon Prime (which means free two-day shipping), a $79 value and you can upgrade to one-day shipping for … [Read more...]
A Rant on Cyber-Bullying or ‘They’re 11. You, the Parent, Take Responsibility!’
This is partially a rant and partially a list of resources to help protect your children safe online. I was "inspired" to write this post for two reasons, I was already accumulating the list of resources for keeping kids safe online and secondly, Good Morning America had an interview with a family that was victimized by cyber bullying where they got it all wrong. Here's my two … [Read more...]
Microsoft Reframes ‘Responsible Disclosure’ into Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
The Microsoft Security Response Center announced earlier today via their TechNet blog a change in the practice of disclosing vulnerabilities. Responsible disclosure being the hot topic for last month shows its cause-effect relationship with today's announcement being the 'effect' part. Microsoft is sticking to its guns and holds fast "that coordination and collaboration are … [Read more...]
YouTube’s Life In A Day Project
Google has a huge project coming up on YouTube on July 24th that requires your involvement and the YouTube logo has been helpfully reminding us about. From the YouTube Life In A Day site: One world. 24 hours. 6 billion perspectives. Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 … [Read more...]