tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19881029124870100422024-08-28T11:46:32.119-04:00This blog is for highlighting the projects I'm working on as well as for commenting on computer security articles found on the internet. To be notified of updates to my blog, subscribe to my "Philip Ramsey Headlines" below.philip ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16528039732870037624noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988102912487010042.post-40459881076355355222016-01-21T11:48:00.000-05:002016-01-21T13:27:13.983-05:00

I got interested in investing in the stock market when Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) when public with it's IPO in late 2013. When the stock first started trading it shot up to approximately US$72.00 in the first day of trading. This was too expensive for me to buy. My first investment was an oil drilling company which I sold about 4 or 5 months later for a small profit. I have made a number of investments

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Computer technology as advanced as far as it can go with the current chip technology. The amazing thing is that although the chips has reached maximum speed and capabilities, all that can be done now is make them smaller for cellphones, tablets and other uses. However, in a few short years a new breed of computers will start to appear - quantum computers that uses laser technology and a cube

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On March 18, I received an email from Google in which they said "Google systems have tested 16 pages from your site and found that 94% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 15 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked

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Thunderbird is an email client (reader) from Mozilla. Like other applications from Mozilla (Firefox, Seamonkey Internet suite), Thunderbird is extendible by plugins which increases the functionality of the application. There are many plugins available for Thunderbird. However, the ones that has the greatest impact are the ones that integrate Thunderbird into Google's ecosystem. They are

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I must have pissed of the Canadian, Chinese and US governments really badly. I have been fairly active on Twitter, Facebook and, to a lesser degree, G+ pushing for a stop to Keystone XL pipeline, genetically modified foods and Monsanto's control of the US Food and Drug Administration. I have also been active in discussions regarding the Affordable Care Act (also known as ACA or ObamaCare) on G+.

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In my article Philip Ramsey: Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way on Monday October 17, 2011 I talked about the merits of Paper.li and how it helped me increase my Twitter following. In the past few weeks, my Toronto Entertainment by Spyc1 has helped me reconnect with TRiSH as well as connect with Lee Carlon and Jesse Heiman. TRiSH is an impressive singer, song writer and all round

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Last year I started using FutureTax for preparing personal income tax for people. In previous years I used CanTax but got tired of their crappy applications that are proned to crashes. This year, FutureTax changed the way they write their software so now, when more than one user account uses the software, they must be members of the administrator group. To me, this is a breach of computer

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Lately, I have been receiving text messages on my cell phone from Twitter accounts that are trying to lure me to malicious websites. I use two really great plugins, WIPMania for knowing where a website's geographic location and Web_Of_Trust (or WOT) for knowing the reputation of the website I am visiting, for Firefox. I also use Linux exclusively. Your malware will never affect me for more that a

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Philip Ramsey: Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way

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NetFirms is a web hosting service that operates in both Canada (www.netforms.ca) and United States (www.netfirms.com). Last year NetFirms were bought out by The Endurance International Group, Inc. Once the transition from the Netfirms old OpenBSD servers to The Endurance International Group Debian Linux servers I have noticed the Login page for their Control Panel has broken

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philip ramsey - Google+ For the past few weeks I have been on updating, or more accurately, improving www.becometheboss.net. The idea for the improvements started back in August when I bought my ASUS Eee Pad aka ANDROID TRANSFORMER tablet. It has two cameras - a back facing high definition camera and a lower resolution front facing camera. I think you know where I am going with this. Because

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Index of /wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options Lately, I've been receiving spam mail from a compromised Hotmail account that sends out links to compromised Wordpress blogs. Or maybe the Wordpress blogs were setup specifically to redirect visitors to phishing sites that are part of a bot.net network. Three things all these spam messages have in common are the location of the redirect

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A few months ago I discovered Paper.li. It is a great web api for curating content from Twitter and Facebook. My first paper was The world according to Spyc1 follow by Toronto Business according to Spyc1 a few weeks later. Within days of launching my first paper, I notices a jump in followers on Twitter. When I started my second paper, the rate of new followers increased even more. Yesterday, I

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I came across this Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence in 10 Minutes a Day and thought it would be great to get. When I clicked on the link, I was presented with a form requesting that all fields be completed including my phone number business information. Because of the recent spate of successful cyber attacks against businesses and governments lately, I immediately checked if

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I have been doing personal income tax preparation ever since taking H&R Block's income tax course in the fall of 1988 and worked for H&R Block during the tax season in 1989. Back then I prepared taxes by hand using the tax forms, provided by Revenue Canada, and a pencil. The pencil was necessary as it is easy to erase a mistake when it is written lead. In November 1993 I bought my first

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W5's segment on Investigating Canada's big cyber security problem only highlights the tip of the iceberg. In my articles on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Google vs China - Googles response to attacks by China, Friday, January 15, 2010 Internet Explorer Flaw Implicated in Chinese Attacks and Monday, February 22, 2010 Technology Review: Corporations, agencies infiltrated by 'botnet' I provided my

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In the article "A Job Applicant? Nope, It's A Malware Attack" businesses may avoid the costs and headaches associated with the security issues of Microsoft products, especially Windows security issues, by using open source software and Linux. For true security, the use of x64 (64 bit) Linux is essential. There are many distributions of Linux. Each are developed for specific environments, i.e.

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While attempting to login to your site via https://www.cch.ca/MyAccount/login.aspx I noticed the encryption is broken. Further investigation revealed a stylesheets and a number of scripts that are hosted on Google that are not encrypted. As a company that claims to be concerned with security why are CSS and JS files hosted by Google needed on your login page? Why do you want to give your users

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The article New Internet Explorer vulnerability affecting all versions of IE goes to show Microsoft still has not learned from it's past mistakes. Although Internet Explorer 7 and 8 are based on Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and 2.0 respectively, they still manage to inject the original Microsoft security issues into them. As cloud computing becomes more important, the browser becomes even more important

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The article 10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Page Following, by Ching Ya, is very informative and should work with any web site. The main principals are entice, engage, and reward. Entice visitors by offering fresh information. Consider my sister's site www.becometheboss.net. It is updated monthly as the next month's breakfast meeting details become available. If we did not update the site,

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The Saudi has a really stupid way of handling spamming by their email users - handle all complaints as spam and reject them. Recently we created a few new email accounts to handle our future online marketing plans. These email accounts have never been used or provided to the public but we have been receiving emails from accounting@becometheboss.net which we never created and does not exist. I

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Technology Review´s article Augmented Reality Apps For Your Cell Phone is an interesting read as it provides examples on how Augmented Reality, or AR, is being used now. AR is actually the continued development of Virtual Reality, VR, that was started back in the late eighties. Because VR relied on expensive single purpose equipment, it was not practical for everyday computer users. By

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Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty is an interesting article on how location based services may be used to promote your products and services. However, the article did not mention Google's AdWords, AdSense, Friend Connect or Facebook or Twitter. Google's AdWord has location specific option built in and all the advertiser needs to do to turn it on is indicate what

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BecomeTheBoss.net has been moved to new servers run by NetFirms.ca and has been updated. The new location is www.becomethebossonline.ca. With the latest update a new section has been added - Government Of Canada RSS Feeds - where you will find the latest news Feeds from Canada Business and Canada Revenue Agency's Media Room and GST/HST Harmonization. Although only the five latest articles are

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The article "Google eyes more government deals for online apps" is good news for Google share holders, open source advocates and the American people. It is also bad news for Microsoft, cyber-terrorists and the Department of Homeland Security's IT department. The reason it is good news for shareholders of Google and open source advocates are obvious: In developing another source of income

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