Philip Ramsey

Warning to spammers on Twitter - I take computer security seriously

2012-01-08T10:33:00.000-05:00

Lately, I have been receiving text messages on my cell phone from Twitter accounts that are trying to lure to malicious websites. I use to 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 for more that a few

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

2012-01-08T05:21:00.000-05:00

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

NetFirms login page is broken

2012-01-04T05:11:00.000-05:00

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 encryption. I

BecomeTheBoss.net update/improvements

2011-12-10T13:08:00.001-05:00

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

Wordpress - the new platform for spreading malware

2011-11-21T02:44:00.001-05:00

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

Become a newspaper publisher the Paper.li way

2011-10-17T14:52:00.001-04:00

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

Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence .... is the book worth the risk?

2011-07-03T11:40:00.002-04:00

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

2010 CanTax income tax software from CCH - the worst tax software ever!!!

2011-03-24T03:48:00.001-04:00

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 computer

W5: Investigating Canada's big cyber security problem

2011-03-23T21:18:00.008-04:00

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

A Job Applicant? Nope, It's A Malware Attack - my comments

2011-02-05T12:09:00.001-05:00

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.

When an encrypted login is not secure - the security is broken

2011-02-02T11:24:00.005-05:00

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

New Internet Explorer vulnerability affecting all versions of IE

2010-12-23T12:34:00.003-05:00

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

10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Page Following

2010-11-24T12:50:00.002-05:00

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,

failure notice - How the Saudi handle email abuse by their users

2010-11-15T20:25:00.003-05:00

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

Technology Review: Augmented Reality Apps For Your Cell Phone

2010-11-13T19:51:00.002-05:00

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

Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty - an interesting read

2010-10-05T02:53:00.000-04:00

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

Get the latest news from Canada Business, Canada Revenue Agency's Media Room and GST/HST Harmonization

2010-08-10T11:29:00.003-04:00

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

Google eyes more government deals for online apps

2010-07-27T11:23:00.003-04:00

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

Blogging with Zemanta

2010-07-24T13:58:00.000-04:00

This my first post using Zemanta as a plug-in.Unfortunately, Google has redesigned the Blogger interface to put the accessories tools below the text input interface. This means I do not see the suggestions that Zemanta is offering unless I scroll down the page which results in me not being able to see what I am typing. However, this is just a minor inconvenience. The main thing is Google is

World's cheapest laptop to cost $35

2010-07-24T12:08:00.010-04:00

The article World's cheapest laptop to cost $35 is an interesting read. However, it must give the biggest name in computing major nightmares especially Microsoft and the top computer manufacturers like Dell, HP and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation. Microsoft should be worried as this new laptop will be using Linux not Windows. The hardware manufacturers will find it difficult to compete

CSI:Internet Episode 1: Alarm at the pizza service by Thorsten Holz

2010-07-18T21:54:00.002-04:00

This article CSI:Internet Episode 1: Alarm at the pizza service goes a long way in explaining how the use of iFrames (a technology developed by Microsoft for inserting a web page into another web page) may be used to compromise web sites using SQL injection. It is a bit long winded and a bit difficult to follow. However you should be able to grasp what is happening. Basically, Someone wrote a

JP FOR MAYOR: Man With the Vision Claims Chinese Consulate Shows Its True Bias in Mayoral Race

2010-07-13T20:56:00.001-04:00

JP FOR MAYOR: Man With the Vision Claims Chinese Consulate Shows Its True Bias in Mayoral Race I think the title should be "China chooses Mayor of Toronto". JP already has an up hill battle as a disabled (JP became blind due to an illness as a young adult) candidate. To also have to contend with a foreign government deciding for Toronto residents who our Mayor should be is down-right outrageous.

Is Yahoo serious about internet security? Are they run by Russian Mafia and/or Chinese agents? You be the judge!

2010-07-02T10:06:00.002-04:00

The computer located at IP 81.185.219.127 is being used by Russian Mafia and the Chinese to access a "closed" email account on Yahoo.ca (irinatorina@yahoo.ca) to direct phishing targets to a Google.com (http://sites.google.com/site/davyskyca/adwptflw) that redirects visitors to pillsrxtabletscheap.net which is hosted by China Unicom Guizhou province network. Because Yahoo refuses or is incapable

Fwd: Re: (KMM111305530V2626L0KM)

2010-06-30T11:35:00.003-04:00

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: (KMM111305530V2626L0KM) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:57:58 -0700 From: Yahoo! Mail <abuse@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Yahoo! Mail <abuse@yahoo.com> To: philip <*****@gmail.com> Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail. It appears as though you have

Re: (KMM111019225V93920L0KM)

2010-06-24T13:28:00.007-04:00

This is the third time this year that Yahoo! has claimed to have "closed/disabled" this account that was "closed" last year. Irina Torina was told her account was closed because she moved and her Rogers account was closed because of the move summer last year. She had linked her Yahoo.ca email to her Rogers internet service. I still say Yahoo! email service is notoriously insecure,