AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 9th, 2012
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 9th, 2012
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 9th, 2012
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- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:38:25 -0400
InfoManager for Monday, April 9th, 2012
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Mac: Malware, Trojans
02 Safenetting : Phishing Report 1204.09
03 UGNN on FACEBOOK
04 Lynn Wegley on DropBox:
05 Vendor Resource Center
06 Pins partners with TheMacBundles
07 A hacker's view on mobile malware
08 The Tough Side of Social Media: Understand the Business Risks
09 FCC Reform Bill Pull in Big Money From Telecom and Broadcasters
10 VRC - TidBITS Publishing Inc. (Take Control Books)
11 AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones
12 Dangerous for Mac
13 External MacBook Air Battery
14 Quotes: Trotsky, McLaughlin
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01 Mac: Malware, Trojans
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report
Congratulations, Apple. The Mac is now popular enough to
attract major attention from the bad guys
* Flashback the largest Mac malware threat yet
* Apple Hits Flashback Trojan With Second Java Update
* What you need to know about the Flashback trojan
* Apple malware flourishes in a culture of denial
* How to reinstall OS X after malware infection
* Need more?
Oh, there's LOTS more
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/malware-3/
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02 Safenetting : Phishing Report 1204.09
Along with this week's Malware Report, things are really humming
with cybercrime. As we've been preaching for over ten years, people
really need to be careful - and help squash online crime! If they
don't, it will be bad for all of us. Just a few in this week's cache
* Sophos Pulls Partner Portal After Signs of Hacking
* How to avoid revocable living trust cons and scams
* Humor: Jon Stewart compares Obama to Nigerian spammer
* Inside Twitter's Spam Lawsuit: Cost More Than $700000
* WordPress Users : Hacked and mangled - yet again
* At Long Last, Twitter Files Anti-Spam Lawsuits
* New Crimes Added to Russian Criminal Code
* Minimize Your Exposure to Email Spoofing
* AVMA issues email fraud alert
* Tax Season Ushers In Scams
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/12730/
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03 UGNN on FACEBOOK
If you're connected to Facebook, check out the UGNN page where
Fred posted a series on the "Google Glass" project, and the new Google
glasses! Also find lots of posts of mine, Freds, and luminaries like
Gary Kampel, Evan London, Bob LeVitus, among others!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/UGNet/
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04 Lynn Wegley on DropBox:
If you aren't already signed up with Dropbox, why not?
In some ways it replaced the soon to be discontinued iDisk....
Then Fred commented :
We've been running Dropbox since almost the beginning
-- it's wonderful for moving client files around, particularly
LARGE files, I recently sent a 250-meg Illustrator file to a
client via drop box. If you get it, also note the Photo Album
functions
... a superbly easy way to treat friends and family to
photos with virtually no work what so ever! :-)
http://on.fb.me/HsEjiA
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05 Vendor Resource Center
I would like to remind everyone that the Vendor Resource Center is
available for your use. We are hoping that you will not only take
advantage of it, but let the vendors know where you are finding this
information so that they will be encouraged to do more to coordinate
with user groups.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/vendors/
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06 Pins partners with TheMacBundles
Pins 1.4 is the updated version of the easy-to-use yet powerful
bookmarks library for Mac OS X. Pins is the easy and beautiful
bookmarks manager app for the mac that lets users keep all their
bookmarks in one place. It is the organized, taggable, searchable,
syncable, shareable, visual library for most if not all bookmarking
needs.
http://ugnn.com/?p=12723
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07 A hacker's view on mobile malware
The mobile phone is unrecognisable in comparison to its original
'brick' form of the 80s. Instead of a 'yuppie' status symbol, now it's
considered by many as a necessity with practically every handbag and
pocket hiding these modern miracles of technology. They are also a
prime target for criminals
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/mobile_hack/
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08 The Tough Side of Social Media: Understand the Business Risks
We're sure you've all heard of the benefits of using social media
in your business, and if you don't already have a social media
strategy, you may be planning one. But is becoming a social business
as easy as it looks, and are there any risks?
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/social/
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09 Sponsors of House FCC Reform Bill Pull in
Big Money From Telecom and Broadcasters
Greenlight Last week a bill to restructure the Federal
Communications Commission's rulemaking process passed the House of
Representatives, 247-174. The measure was supported by AT&T, the
National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association, and Verizon Communications, all of
which are major contributors to the bill's 10 sponsors.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/telecom/
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10 VRC - TidBITS Publishing Inc. (Take Control Books)
Adam Engst and Tanya Engst has provided Macintosh users with the
weekly newsletter TidBITS, since the early days of the Mac. They have
been publishing the Take Control books series for a number of years
now as well. Since, they have both been great supporters of user
groups, so it is no surprise that they are joining the ranks of the
Vendor Resource Center.
http://ugnn.com/?p=12704
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11 AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones
According to an article on MacRumors, AT&T has announced that it
will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts
have expired.
http://ugnn.com/?p=http://ugnn.com/?p=12699
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12 Dangerous for Mac
Binary Helix has announced the game 'Dangerous' for Mac on the
Apple Mac App Store for a launch sale price of $14.99. Dangerous is a
3D open and living world space combat sandbox RPG. Using our
state-of-the-art virtual machine (VM) technology, players are immersed
in a universe where over six hundred AI ships fly around autonomously
even while the player is docked inside a space station. Players are
also treated to the award-winning soundtrack composed by renown
composer, Sean Beeson.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/dangerous-for-mac/
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13 External MacBook Air Battery
QuickerTek just announced the 4th Generation external battery and
charger for all Apple MacBook Air laptops. This external battery and
charger recharges and powers everything from the iPad, to iPods to
iPhones to MacBook Air laptops.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/04/external-macbook-air-battery/
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14 Quotes: Trotsky, McLaughlin
"Not believing in force is the same as
not believing in gravitation."
- Leon Trotsky
"Every society honors its live conformists
and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
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15 ... and have a great week!
Remember, I invite all user groups to use this column in
full or in pieces in your newsletter. Or add a link to
their web site.
Pau
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** THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred
Showker.
Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group
Network. He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many
UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user
group member, he's been a volunteer from Honolulu to Boston
and beyond.
Currently working primarily the with the Cowtown MUG of Ft.
Worth but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a
lifetime member of TUMS the Tulsa Users of Macintosh
Society).
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG
Forum days, then out onto the web.
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