1205-14 Phishing, Spam, Cybercrime Report

User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report It’s a wonder things don’t change! After repeating the same sad news week after week, month, year after year you’d think someone would take notice. Oh well, we’ll keep plugging away … here are just a few from this week’s cache
* China China China Hack Hack Hack OilWar CyberWar GasWar CultureWar
* HP loses hundreds of thousands of CA social services records
* Hackers Target Gas Firms; Twitter-Spammer Logins Leaked
* China link to cyberattacks on gas pipeline companies
* Don’t Fall for Fake Amazon.com Cancellation Emails
* eBay tries to shut down AuctionBytes for phishing
* Scam artists target Verizon customers
* Newt Gingrich loves spam
and more . . .

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Malware May

User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report We need your help spreading the Safenetting Infomanager to people in your sphere of influence who may not be quite as computer savvy as our main Infomanager subscribers. This week is punctuated by Adobe Malware vulnerability and more ICANN failures … here are just a few from this week’s cache
* Amnesty International: when bad things happen on good sites
* Oxford University Profusely Infected with Flashback
* Phony Flash Player Plants Malware on Android Phones
* If Ann Nyberg’s Gmail can be hacked, so can yours
* Mountain Lion Debut Bad for Snow Leopard Users
* ‘Critical’ TIFF vulnerability in CS5 software
* 9 Tips To Block Hotel Wi-Fi Malware
* Apple patches 36 bugs in OS X
* ICANN = FAIL
and more . . .

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DayMap Version 1.5

pic Whetstone Apps has announced the release and immediate availability of DayMap 1.5, an update to their popular personal productivity application for the Lion Operating System. DayMap offers a unique way of organizing and scheduling projects and tasks in a visually intuitive Project Outliner and Weekly Scheduler. This allows users to view their weekly tasks and schedule at-a-glance.
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Steve Jobs as FDR

Just in case you haven’t seen this video, I wanted to provide a link to the user group community.   Continue reading »

An Overview of Core Audio

Debunking Free Antivirus Myths Using Apple’s Core Audio, you can leverage all that power in your own Mac and iOS software, implementing features ranging from audio capture to real-time effects, MP3 playback to virtual instruments, web radio to VoIP support.

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Encryption Special: New Blog, Forrester Guide & Cloud Tips

BYOD: iPads, Security and the Latest Trends With security such a critical concern for businesses, many have turned to encryption to help protect data from prying eyes. Although encryption is designed to made data hard to decipher, the technology itself should not be hard to master. In this week’s Global Roundup newsletter, here’s a blog which looks at the background of encryption and its possible uses, and two top papers which discuss different types of encryption.

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Celebrate Storytelling and Design for Good

Benevolent Media Festival Benevolent Media Festival to Celebrate Storytelling and Design for Good returns to Washington, D.C. on June 22-25. Organizers currently seeking ideas for projects and events.

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Alekstra

This article on ArcticStartup.com is about a new company, Alekstra that is planning on becoming a world wide phone company.  Not by selling handsets and setting up cell towers, but by taking over the billing.

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SyncMate Plus

pic Eltima Software has announced a new version of SyncMate Plus – version 3.7. This update adds the support of several CardDAV/CalDAV-enabled services. With SyncMate Plus 3.7 one can easily sync contacts, calendars, and Reminders/To Do on Mac with cloud storages like iCloud, Yahoo! contacts, Yahoo! calendars, Fruux, Memotoo, etc.   Continue reading »

New Greeting Cards for Mom’s Day

  Bartsoft Inc., a Canadian based company, has published new cards and frames for both versions of the application, eCard Express for iPhone and eCard Express HD for iPad. The update includes new greeting cards and frames for categories: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day (Mom and Dad), Frames, Love and Friendship, as well as the new fully optimized User Interface and stickers for the beautiful Retina Display on The new iPad. All of these new cards are free of charge for current eCard Express users. eCard Express now offers a total of more then 270 greeting cards and frames in 18 different categories!   Continue reading »

Put iWeb site on Dropbox

  This article on Macworld earlier this month really made me wonder about what we can do with a MobileMe web sites.  The title there is “How to publish your MobileMe iWeb site on Dropbox.”
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5 Things to do with Google Voice

  I have used Google Voice since it was an independent company called Grand Central. But this article on MakeUseOf gives me choices of use that I didn’t know about.

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DVD Slideshow builder FREE for Mother’s Day

Catherine Lee, a reader in Germany alerted us to this great deal for Mother’s Day … Wondershare is giving away Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Standard on the occasion of Mom’s Day, which allows you to drop-in your favorite photos and music, and instantly create a compelling photo slideshow as a gift for your mom. WINDOWS ONLY.

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Junk Mail remedy?

pic Are you inundated with catalogs, offers, and direct mail junk? The web site DMAchoice.org could be just what you’re looking for.

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May Games for Kids

Games InfoManager ... games for all ages

GAMES InfoManager Amazing that most of the games are being produced outside of the U.S…. for all the games reviewed since our last issue (more than 30) only five were from U.S. developers. What does that tell you? Maybe that’s why 90% of the iPhone and iPad apps, particularly games, these days really suck. We’ve seen no less than a dozen new “dropping objects” games in the past few days, all of which are from foreign developers and NONE of which are worth even 99-cents!
CAUTION REMEMBER : you cannot get your money back after downloading and discovering it really sucks! We think these actually suck less!
* Tractors and Farms game sure to please
* Pocket Monkey off to the jungle
* So You Think You Know Words
* More stupid kick games
* The Treasures of Hotei
* Bricks Trouble
. . . and more!

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