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Three Ways You're Making Yourself Vulnerable to Cyber Crime

2010-12-26T06:39:00.000-08:00

Do you wear seatbelts? Avoid raw eggs? Get a flu shot? In other words, do you behave in ways aimed at protecting your safety and your overall health? Now answer this: Do you have a password on your mobile phone? Do you tell your social networking sites where you are?

If so, you're not as safety-conscious as you thought. You're opening yourself up to a burgeoning world of cybercrime that is possible through mobile devices. And you are far from alone.

I collaborated with Norton and Javelin Strategy & Research on a piece of research called the Connected but Careless study, which was released today, to figure out just how open Americans are leaving themselves to cyber crime. The survey of 1,000 Internet users pointed to three specific potential security gaps.

Unprotected devices About one-third of the folks surveyed access the Internet via their mobile phone. And more than half of those do not have a password protecting the device. Think about what happens if you leave that phone in a cab. Not only does the person who find it have access to your entire contact list, he may be able to read emails that come from your bank, phone providers, and retailers you've made purchases from. Just like dumpster diving identity thieves are able to apply for credit in your name based on information they pull out of your trash or your mailbox, one who snags your phone could do the same.

Your whereabouts. Changing your status or sending out a 140-character blast to reveal details about where you are -- "In Jamaica and it's 80 degrees. Lucky me!" or "Stuck in horrific traffic and won't be home in time for Top Chef" – is akin to leaving a stack of newspapers in your driveway. You're telling anyone who wants to rob your house that you're a.) not there right now and b.) won't be there for a while. Posting vacation pictures to your social networking site can do the exact same thing. In fact, the survey showed one-in-10 of people polled under the age of 35 had posted location-revealing information online within the hour of being surveyed. And that's without the aid of geolocation technology that allows a website to know exactly where you are. Only 15% of those surveyed understood that concept well enough to explain it.

Password malaise. This may be the most frightening of all: 42% of the survey population never changes their passwords on social networking sites and 31% never changes them with their banks. As if that weren't enough, many of those passwords are not strong enough to begin with. It's amazing to me that even in this day and age, the most popular password – according to consumer advocate Herb Weisbaum – is, wait for it, 123456. C'mon. Your passwords should be 10 characters, a combination of letters and numbers that have absolutely nothing to do with your real life. (No pet names, child names, birthdays.) And you should change them every few months without fail. Why? Because 66% of consumers would rather have bedbugs than be a victim of cybercrime – which costs hundreds of dollars and takes a full month to unwind, on average. Changing a few simple behaviors can help.

Facebook password scam warning: they just keep coming

2010-09-28T07:07:00.000-07:00

If you get an e-mail telling you your Facebook password has been changed and a new one Is attached, delete it immediately -- it's the latest Facebook scam, according to an alert from the Better Business Bureau.

Password changes -- Facebook is NOT going to send you an e-mail with a new password. If Facebook suspects fraudulently activity with your account, it will send a direct message to your Facebook account, and instruct you to go to your "Settings" button to change your password yourself.

Attachments/Links -- You should always be suspicious of e-mails that instruct you to download an attachment or click on a link. Attachments and links are the primary methods by which viruses, spyware and malware are spread.

E-mail address – If you only have your personal email address on your Facebook account and you get a "Facebook" e-mail on your business account, you should be suspicious and not open the e-mail.

Grammar, punctuation and typos – The grammar and incorrect punctuation used in the latest e-mail scam indicates that English is probably not the sender's first language. "Dear user of Facebook" is an example. In American English, it would more likely be "Dear Facebook User." Grammatical errors and awkward phrasing are tip-offs that the sender is probably in another country and that the e-mail is a scam. This is a red flag for any suspect e-mail you get, as most corporations will have any written information they send out to users and clients professionally copy edited.

The BBB also offers this general advice to stay safe online:

Delete any suspicious e-mails as soon as you receive them.
Do not click on any links.
Do not download any attachments.
Do not call any telephone numbers that may be in the e-mail.
Protect your computer with a good quality, up-to-date, anti-virus software program

FERRARI COMING IN INDIA

2010-07-14T20:55:00.000-07:00

Iconic ‘Prancing Horse’ India-Bound

“Ferrari doesn’t sell really a car, it sells a dream.”

Let it be the launch of the world’s cheapest car or the acquisition of JLR, Ratan Tata never stops to amuse us; and this time, by bringing the iconic Ferrari to India.

BSMotoring reports that Ferrari is looking to open its first dealership in India in the next six to eight months and is likely to appoint Tata Motors or a sub-division of it as its sole Indian distributor and dealer. With Tata-Fiat joint venture in full swing in India and Fiat being the parent company of Ferrari, the move appears to be practical and convenient.

Speaking to BBC News, Ferrari Chairman Luca Di Montezemolo said that he is looking at opening a dealership here in India this year itself, although that might be a little premature. Ferrari is planning to open two dealerships in two of the largest metros in India, New Delhi and Mumbai with the latter most likely to be the first one.

Ferrari manufactures road-going sportscars, supercars and grand tourers and sells in excess of 6500 units a year. Its model lineup includes the California, 458 Italia, the 599 GTB and the 612 Scaglietti. “In the future we will sell a Ferrari with four-wheel drive but we will never sell a family Ferrari,” Mr Montezemolo states.

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Here are the top 10 scams recorded by the National Consumers League in 2009

Fake Checks 42.01%
Internet: General Merchandise 24.87%
Prizes/Sweepstakes/Free Gifts 9.57%
Phishing/Spoofing 7.17%
Nigerian Money Offers (not prizes) 2.88%
Business Opportunities 2.02%
Franchises/Distributorships 2.02%
Advance Fee Loans, Credit Arrangers 1.82%
Internet: Auctions 1.17%
Friendship & Sweetheart Swindles 1.00%

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The 10 biggest failures in IT history

2010-02-11T03:33:00.000-08:00

Windows Vista What a disaster! Could Microsoft have assembled a bigger failure if it tried? Well, possibly. But Microsoft wasn't trying to make a failure – it was trying to make the best of the best. The result was the worst of the best.

NeXT NeXT did inspire a lot of software for the Linux desktop (such as AfterStep), and the NeXTSTEP did eventually become the foundation of OS X. So NeXT wasn't a complete flop.

BeOS BeOS has been resurrected as Haiku, the BeOS (and all the cool hardware it promised) never really got off the ground. The PC that promised to be the dream machine for the media crowd fizzled out before its fuse could really be lit.

Cobalt Qube The Cobalt Qube looked cool. If you're lucky, you can still find one on eBay going cheap. Underneath that tiny blue exterior lay a beefy 64 MB of RAM and an 8.4 Gig HD that was ready and willing to serve up your Web site, your mail, your DNS, or anything else you needed. Ah, but those were the glory days -- and short-lived at that. The serious IT crowed quickly realized that function held sway over form, and the cool blue Qubes went nowhere. Even after Sun bought the Cobalt company, these devices did nothing.

Y2K I can't resist including this one. The entire world was supposed to cave under the pressure this little bug promised, wasn't it? I even read plenty of sci-fi books based on that premise. But nothing happened. Banks didn't lose all of your money, the world's security didn't fall to pieces, and all IT professionals woke up the next morning collectively saying, "Was that it?"

MP3 The MP3 format is on this list because of all the licensing issues it has caused. On the Linux operating system alone, MP3 isn't installed on most distributions, by default, because of licensing issues. As a result, users scramble to get MP3 support built into their various tools. This causes as much hair loss as MP3 causes audio quality loss. There are much better formats out there without the licensing issues, people!

Richard Stallman This man was supposed to be the champion of open source -- but he endangers open source at every turn. Instead of making ridiculous claims, RMS should stand down and let someone with a modicum of tact and sense to take over as the voice of open source software.

WordPerfect WordPerfect was an outstanding word processing tool. Corel, however, was not outstanding in its ability to market and sell something as good as WordPerfect. So instead of a piece of software that should have single-handedly toppled the Microsoft juggernaut, WordPerfect died. This should never have happened. Any other company could have pulled off this win.

IPv6 Should this already be in place? Should something so simple really be that hard? The 'net could run out of IP addresses and there is no solution in place yet. Why? Because we don't have the problem yet. But didn't everyone panic with claims that the "IP sky is falling"? Wouldn't it be smart to go ahead and put this in place? Maybe the powers-that-be are waiting until that very last IPv4 address is issued and we have to say, "We have no more!" At that point, no one will really know how to implement the solution and it will be Y2K all over again.

Mesh networks At one point, wireless was going to cover the entire planet and everyone was going to have free wireless networking, thanks to wireless mesh networks. It didn't happen. It sounded like a great idea, and sites popped up all over the place trying to get users to set up their own mesh networks to further expand the "net." It was a grand idea, based on a grand ideal, but it just never got off the ground. That's a shame, since a "mesh Wifi" would have enabled anyone to be online anywhere. Of course, I am sure the telecoms had NOTHING to do with the fall of mesh networking.

SOURCE: TechRepublic

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