AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 27, 2014
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 27, 2014
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 27, 2014
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InfoManager for Monday, January 27, 2014
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 UGNN Cyber Security Report for January 27, 2014
02 Safenetting : Phishing, Report for January 27 2014
03 First Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive for MacBook Pro
04 Macintosh and Its Movies
05 Keep It Simple 1.2
06 Why 1984 won't be like 1984
07 UGNN Malware Report for January 27, 2014
08 20 Ways Apple's Mac Changed Everything
09 How to make an app: AppsMoment
10 Scam on the Run: Fugitive Identity Thief Led Global Criminal Enterprise
11 Quotes: Black History Month begins February 1st:
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News this afternoon from our long-time friend Bill Achuff
Moe Comeau, veteran user group active from MLmug passed away on
Saturday, January 26, 2014.
Moe was always a friend, and followed the user group community
closely. He was a UGNN reader and follower since the beginning, and
always pointed out our misspelled words and broken links. I know he
was very important and active to his user group -- and to us all.
Our thoughts are with his family ... RIP, Moe.
http://www.mlmug.org/mommoe.html
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01 UGNN Cyber Security Report for January 27, 2014
They're telling us that the NSA has something to do with cyber
security but hey -- who would you rather have spying on you: NSA or
the Russian Mob? Besides the fact that the NSA issues have nothing to
do with the web, other than bank robbers using the interstate to
escape. Oh well. The media will say anything to get more pairs of
eyes. That's why you can rely on the Cyber Security Infomanager at
Safenetting:
* 50 top US cyber security experts write open letter calling for end
to NSA 'snoop-ops'
* Social media : A possible threat to national security in Sri Lanka
* Cyber security a big topic at Brookings symposium
* Cybersecurity researchers call for NSA changes
* Government to set 'day of cybersecurity"
* Stepping up cyber security
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/cyber_security_report_1401-27/
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02 Safenetting : Phishing, Report for January 27 2014
While we're feeling safer, and phishing has dropped from an
average 800 per day to 30 per day, the criminals are getting smarter
and more convincing. They're also finding more ways to phish like the
recent "what's app" attacks. Stay tuned and we'll bring you the latest
and most important online risks updates
* Russian Coders, Ukrainian Cybercriminals, and The Largest
Cybercrime In History
* Microsoft says new phishing attacks targeted law enforcement documents
* Email spammer tricked consumers with Obamacare threats, FTC charges
* Spear phishing still popular, but more watering hole attacks coming
* Attorney general warns against post holiday scams | Consumer Alert
* Teach your kids these steps to keep online scammers away
* Phishing isn't just sticking a pole in water
* Here's To Ten Years of Mobile Malware!
* SEA Hackers Muck
* Up CNN Sites
* and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/phishing_report_1401-27-2/
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03 First Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive for MacBook Pro
MCE Technologies (MCE) has announced that it has begun shipping
the first-ever internal Blu-ray recordable drive for MacBook Pro. The
MCE Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive for MacBook Pro can record high
definition video and data to 25GB, 50GB, and 100GB Blu-ray recordable
discs and it can playback commercial Blu-ray movie titles directly on
the MacBook Pro with software included with the drive.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/first-internal-blu-ray-recordable-drive-for-macbook-pro/
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04 Macintosh and Its Movies
Ilene Hoffman has posted interesting articles on a number of web
sites over the years and now has begun to do so on her own site. On a
companion site, she has traditionally placed the Hess Memorial
Macworld Party List.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/macintosh-and-its-movies/
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05 Keep It Simple 1.2
Lovelace.pro has introduced Keep It Simple 1.2 for iPhone and
iPod Touch devices. Keep It Simple is a mobile application that allows
users to create, manage, and synchronize lists using Dropbox
technology. There users can share their lists between devices and with
others by logging in to the same Dropbox account. Lists can be managed
offline and will synchronize automatically between the device and
cloud when online again.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/keep-it-simple-1-2/
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06 Why 1984 won't be like 1984
enjoy
http://youtu.be/vNy-7jv0XSc
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07 UGNN Malware Report for January 27, 2014
It's the Mac's 30th anniversary, but the warnings are written on
the wall . . . even Mac is vulnerable! The open-source software world
is allowing all kinds of delivery methods for malware, from drive-by
web sites to images or flash scripting. Pass along this edition of
Safenetting Malware Infomanager:
* Mac malware, Starbucks security, Apple versus FTC & Korean breach
[PODCAST]
* Attackers Celebrate Macintosh's 30th Anniversary With Data
Stealing Malware
* Amazon, GoDaddy, Google, Leaseweb host half of all malware
* New Windows Malware Attempts To Infect Android Devices
* Digitally signed data-stealing malware targets Mac users
* Beware of malware posing as WhatsApp for PC
* Global spam email rate falls
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/malware_report_1401-27/
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08 20 Ways Apple's Mac Changed Everything
The title for this article by Harry McCracken continues with
"(Other Than the Most Obvious Ones.) The story of a computer that
never stopped mattering."
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/20-ways-apples-mac-changed-everything/
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09 How to make an app: AppsMoment
AppsMoment provides unique way to the answer : how to make an app
and has quickly become one of the leading application iPhone maker
available on the internet. In fact, AppsMoment has announced that
their users have successfully published over 150,000 applications and
counting.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/how-to-make-an-app-appsmoment/
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10 Scam on the Run: Fugitive Identity Thief Led Global Criminal Enterprise
He made a living stealing other people's identities... and then
their money. And what a living it was -- more than enough to bankroll
luxury homes, fancy cars, expensive clothes and jewelry, and nights
spent in clubs and casinos. When law enforcement was about to swoop in
and arrest the thief, he managed to flee the country and continue his
extravagant lifestyle abroad for about four years.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/identity_thief/
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11 Quotes: Black History Month begins February 1st:
Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.
-- Ray Charles
The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.
-- Bill Cosby
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has
overcome while trying to succeed.
-- Booker T. Washington
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me.
Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours;
my goals, my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
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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 active in UGs since 1986, first the AOL UG Forum, then
the User Group Network. He spoke at the original AppleWorld in 1987,
and served as Apple User Group Advisory Board Member for three years.
He founded the User Group Academy, and the Appleseeds Foundation
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