Archive for April, 2010

Twitter Phishing Attack

DO NOT CLICK Since last week, we’ve been tracking, analyzing and reporting a phishing attack on Twitter users. This attack demonstrates how many of the Twitter accounts have been hijacked and turned into spam vehicles for cyber criminals. Yet, the attack, initially, has nothing to do with Twitter.

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Six Unintended iPad Careers

You’ve just bought an iPad. Maybe you’re holding it now, reading this article on it. Maybe it’s still on order. Either way, now that the iPad is an actual, hold-able, own-able device, and no longer a unicorn concept, we thought we’d get you up-to-speed on some of the possible upcoming “unintended” job opportunities sure to come about from the adoption of this magical new device.

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UGN Salutes OMUG

Mac computer users – The Ocala Macintosh User Group, Ocala, Florida

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WordPress Blogs Hacked

For the past two weeks we’ve been battling WordPress hacks and attacks that have affected thousands of blogs. Fortunately, they did not get UGNN. However they did get several other sites we administer, and it’s not a pretty sight. Network Solutions was hacked twice in ten days, and they don’t seem to be able to stay ahead of the hackers.

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iPad on a roll, good and bad

iPad news continues with pro and con news — Apple: iPad 3G Coming on April 30 — but when a 100-year old Apple fan writes poem about iPad, you know it’s special. Other news includes * iPad gets an ‘okay’ from Microsoft’s Bill Gates * Will iPad cannibalize Mac sales? * Apple iPad is illegal in Israel * 26 Percent of Wired’s Mobile Traffic Comes From the iPad … man loses pinky finger during ipad snatching … and a skeptic’s review (plus several others.)

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Phishers still find plenty of suckers

Phishing doesn’t stop … it just changes its methods as seen in this week’s phishing update: * 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts for Sale * Porn sites top drive-by download list * Twitter Phishing Scam * Fake Ticket Sites * Google Cyberattack * Facebook virus causes headaches * “Phishing” Phone Calls * Social Networking on Facebook Declared Unsafe … and others

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New iPad Vanity Plate

NewPCgadgets introduces the new Vanity Plate for the iPad. The Vanity Plate offers a custom look while providing valuable contact information in the event your iPad is lost or misplaced. This is the first loss-prevention product designed to protect your latest Apple investment.
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Dracula HD 1.0 for iPad

Last Friday, Intelligenti Publishing, the developers of Dracula HD announced it has launched a first-of-its-kind application. Thanks to a flexible custom development, Dracula HD presents a realistic series of journal entries, letters and newspaper clippings that reveal, piece by piece, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The App’s visual presentation is beyond what has been possible or released before, to take users to a new level of book enjoyment in a mobile platform.
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WeatherCal

Our friends at Bare Bones software have a new product called WeatherCal. With WeatherCal, you enter the city of your choice and you get a 5 day weather forecast as a calendar. This calendar is compatible with iCal.
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txtDrop

For a long time now, we have been told that the most expense way to send data from one person to another was text messaging on a cell phone. At 20 to 30 cents per message, it is extremely expensive, but when you realize, you are paying it coming and going, it would double the expense.
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Free Mac Software

I am not sure that you really can’t live without these, but I do love lists.
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Mac OS X Secret Keystrokes

This is a list of OS X Keystrokes taken from the book “The Missing Manual Leopard.”
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Apple App Store Threat

I’ve been tracking “Apple” in the spam traps for the past ten days and find the phishers and cyber-crooks actively pursuing Mac users’ accounts at the App store.

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Adobe CS5 gets Vjoon

vjoon's new Cross-media Publishing Platformvjoon’s new Cross-media Publishing Platform K4 version 6 will be compatible with Adobe Creative Suite 5 in Q2 of 2010.

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Paper scanner to GO

Doxie, the modern paper scannerDoxie, the modern paper scanner that scans directly to the cloud, is now shipping. For home and small business,

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