AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 23rd, 2017
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 23rd, 2017
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 23rd, 2017
- From: Fred Showker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:30:00 -0500
InfoManager for Monday, January 23rd, 2017
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here
01 Have the predictions come true? How big is too big to fail?
How big is too big to litigate? How big is too big to hide from?
02 New phishing wave uses Apple cloud to bait you into clicking
03 Cyber Security Update: Hackers, China, Trump, Putin, Russia,
Yahoo, Virus, Malware and much more!
04 Default Folder X 5.1
05 Koolova ransomware
06 Top Searches on Wikipedia for 2016
07 How Far to That Galaxy?
08 AppDelete Lite 4.3.1
09 UGNN : the end of an era, goodbye to this old mouse
10 Farewell From Lynn
11 UGNN : The collected quotes from the InfoManager for 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017
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01 Have the predictions come true? How big is too big to fail?
How big is too big to litigate? How big is too big to hide from?
Since I'm in the middle of reading the book "Future Crimes" for the 2nd time, I'm learning a lot about the internet, cyber security, who the players are, and what the real threats are. If you are still worried about the NSA, or Snoden's revelations, or even the Russian hacks and Wikileaks, you're doomed to ignorance. These are kindergarten games compared to the real Big Brothers who stalk us all.
Who was the face on the big monitor in Apple's 1984 commercial? Was he too big to fail? Was he too big to question? Did the prediction fail? Did you use Facebook or Google today?
* Do we need Google to be the Internet police? And do we even want it?
* Google must pay taxes to fund ridding web of child abuse
* Google will soon call out websites for not being secure
* Did You Know Google Has a New 2017 Website Requirement?
* Google, The Internet Police Force, Aims At Mobile
* Be the internet police, not an internet dictator
* When Did Google Become the Internet Police?
* Google Outs Itself As The Internet Police
* The rise of the Internet police
* The New Censorship
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/internet_police/
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02 New phishing wave uses Apple cloud to bait you into clicking
Share this with your friends and relatives . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/apple_phishing_scam/
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03 Cyber Security Update: Hackers, China, Trump, Putin,
Russia, Yahoo, Virus, Malware and much more!
It's a new year, and the elections are over. We have a new president we should all be standing behind. But there's trouble in the world, and many people are pandering to it without even an inkling of the truth. The trouble isn't what you think. It's far more insidious than even those protesters can fathom. It will come slowly and quietly, until you suddenly discover it was happening all along, and the world is powerless to stop it.
* Cybersecurity experts worried about Russian hackers.
One says: Look, a squirrel!
* Russian national detained in Spain suspected of
developing computer malware
* Malware Scam Targets Google Chrome User's
Using 'Font Update' Technique
* Evaluating the US-China Cybersecurity Agreement,
Part 2: China's Take
* Malware infects Popeyes restaurants, compromising credit cards
* Mac-compatible 'Fruitfly' malware escapes detection for years
* Carbanak Malware Uses Google Svcs As C&C Servers
* How Secure Will Cyber Security Be Under Trump?
* That fake news story might come with malware
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/01_cyber_security/
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04 Default Folder X 5.1
St. Clair Software has delivered Default Folder X 5.1. This version of its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs offers new capabilities, letting you copy, move and make aliases to files without leaving the file dialog. It also lets you easily change creation and modification dates, addresses compatibility issues, and improves Default Folder X's reliability.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/default-folder-x-5-1/
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05 Koolova ransomware
Neowin.net has this article about a new ransomware that decrypts your files for free if you read two security articles.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/koolova-ransomware/
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06 Top Searches on Wikipedia for 2016
The English Wikipedia's list is led by the United States president-elect, who topped all other articles with nearly three times more views than last year's #1. But the second-screen effect powered Britain's queen, Pablo Escobar, and O. J. Simpson to surprisingly high places..
In total, there were over 76 million views on the English-language article about the US president-elect, making it 2016's most-viewed Wikipedia article. That total is nearly three times more than 2015's first-place article, which had just under 28 million.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/top-searches-on-wikipedia-for-2016/
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07 How Far to That Galaxy?
One of the most basic questions in astronomy is how far away something is. Now, a new catalog of objects will help scientists answer that question for tens of thousands of objects that are so far away they date back to the beginning of the universe. The more objects the catalog has in it, the easier it is to figure out how big the universe actually is and how fast it is expanding, NASA officials said in a statement.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/how-far-to-that-galaxy/
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08 AppDelete Lite 4.3.1
Reggie Ashworth has announced the release and immediate availability of MAS AppDelete Lite 4.3.1, an update to his very popular application deletion utility for Mac OS X available via the Mac App Store. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete Lite will uninstall anything along with all of the associated items. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/appdelete-lite-4-3-1/
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09 UGNN : the end of an era, goodbye to this old mouse
InfoManager : what's new onlineIn the famous words of
Jimmy Buffett, here we are :
"Who would have thought those flames would still be burning?"
I watched my son showing his new son how to do gestures on an iPad. I was immediately taken back to my son (his father) sitting on my lap learning to use the mouse. Twenty-five more years slipped away. Yes, the world of Apple and the User Group life created many fond memories - standing in the hallway with John McWade waiting to be called to the podium at Apple World '87. Guy Kawasaki poking fun how honored he was that I payed the most ever for one of his books - Rye Livingston refusing to give up his original Apple tshirt for the charity auction. Standing with Lynn and David Pogue giving awards to user groups. All of those faces and all of those places, I wonder where they all disappeared.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/goodbye/
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10 Farewell From Lynn
It is hard to accept this, but it is necessary.
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/01/farewell-from-lynn/
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11 UGNN : The collected quotes from the InfoManager for 2016
Each year since 1990, we've summed up the year by posting the "collected" quotes from the InfoManager. Lynn started this tradition as a way of 'closing' each issue with a good thought. Although we've started recycling, and for the past three years we're re-used the quotes from the SAME dates, but ten years ago -- there are still 2,700 total quotes in the InfoManager database. Hope you enjoy these!
http://www.ugnn.com/2017/2016_quotes.html
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And that's it ....
Pau
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** THE INFO MANAGER
Once upon a time was 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.
Lynn is currently working to rebuilding the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society (TUMS) and also is a member of the Apple Corps of Dallas. An active participate on several MUG Facebook pages as well.
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the web. Fred started and developed the User Group Network as a parallele organization to the Mug News Service, then continued through the founding of the Association of Apple Computer Users and Groups, and continues today at UGNN.com
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