Jessica Biel

Whenever on the interenet, you shouldbe caereful while looking up things, especially actresses or actors.  Some of the most infested siteson the internet are sites that exploit the humans tedancy to look at super models, actors and musicians.  Virii, malware and other various critters to infest yourcomputer.   As always be careful onthe interenet and also always have your anti-virus up-to-date.

Thanks to Mashable

You think you know danger? You don’t know danger. The internet’s biggest perils are hidden beneath a pretty face; a simple Google () search for Jessica Biel might result in a site filled with viruses, trojans, and spyware.Erm, yep: that’s pretty much how the internet works. A popular term will always be exploited by malicious hackers (or hacker wannabes) who’ll set up pages which aren’t what they appear, with the purpose of infecting your computer, extracting your personal data, or worse. The most popular targets for these cybervillains, however, change over time; last year it was Brad Pitt, and this year, according to McAfee, it’s Jessica Biel.

More precisely, if you Google Jessica Biel, you have a one-in-five chance of landing at a website that contains some sort of online threat: spyware, phishing, viruses, trojans, spam, and the like.

The rest of the list looks like this: Beyonce is in the second place, with “Beyonce ringtones” being a particularly dangerous term to search, Jennifer Aniston came in third place (don’t search for “Jennifer Aniston screensavers”), followed by Tom Brady, Jessica Simpson, Gisele Bundchen, Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, and Ashley Tisdale. Brad Pitt came in 10th place this year; sorry Brad, it looks like you’re getting old.

Obama is giving me money

LOL  this is a new one in the scam phishing schemes on the web.   ROFLMAO

Add a Tweet

This is a pretty cool plugin for firefox.  It allows you to post a comment on any webpage.   Check it out and try it out on my blog.

Welcome to addatweet! from addatweet on Vimeo.

Erin Andrews Peephole Video Carries Malware Threat

Be careful what you download and where you get videos online.    There are always people out there trying to scam people into downloading malware and other nasty stuff for computers.   The latest scam is the Erin Andrews video going around the intertubes.  Remember to always have the most up to date anti-virus definitions and a good anti-malware application

H/T to Mashable

WP 2.8

The new version of Word Press is out, WP 2.8.   I think I am going to try and update the blog later tonight when I get home from work.  I will see, I will look into some  of the bugs it has and see if I should wait though. But it looks like it work pretty good and has some pretty cool updates to the back end.

Shift Happens Narrated

This is a little old I think, but it is still true.  Technology is growing faster and faster every year.    We use Face Book and Twitter now, but in a few years, they will be obsolete and there will be some new way to talk and collaborate online.  We still have blogs, you are reading one now, but they are getting overtaken by Social Networks more and more every day.   We need to teach and study these technologies or we will be left in the dust to the Chinese , Indians and many other up and coming countries.    I an a technology geek and lie to keep up with this stuff, but it is getting harder and harder because of how fast everything is advancing.   I have been working on computers since the 80s when we had a TRS 80 from Radio Shack.  So I guess that is where I get my love of technology and geekiness.   Sort of like my love of History and Geography from my grand parents, who always asked us to look up where their next trip was going to be on the World Map, and if we did not know some part of history that they asked us, we had to look it up in the encyclopedia.   Not we have Wikipedia at our fingertips and maps online, and many more places to look up these things every day.

As this video shows Shifts happen and we need to keep up with the technology.

The MiFi

This is increadible.  Ever been on the road in a hotle or an airport and want to get online to check your emails or see what is happening in the world, only to find out that there is no free WiFi anywhere.   Most are $9.99 a day or $20 or so for a week.  And then you have to go thru their login screen and advertising.   Well, with this little thing that will be a thing of the past.  I want one so bad.   Who needs an iPhone when yo got one of these.   I got a WiFi ready mp3player, so I would be able to get on that anywhere that i want and have this in my pocket, or just sit down and get on the laptop.

….But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?

Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.

The MiFi gets its Internet signal the same way those cellular modems do — in this case, from Verizon’s excellent 3G (high-speed) cellular data network. If you just want to do e-mail and the Web, you pay $40 a month for the service (250 megabytes of data transfer, 10 cents a megabyte above that). If you watch videos and shuttle a lot of big files, opt for the $60 plan (5 gigabytes). And if you don’t travel incessantly, the best deal may be the one-day pass: $15 for 24 hours, only when you need it. In that case, the MiFi itself costs $270.

In essence, the MiFi converts that cellular Internet signal into an umbrella of Wi-Fi coverage that up to five people can share. (The speed suffers if all five are doing heavy downloads at once, but that’s a rarity.)….  NY Slimes

Tweet Illinois

For all of you that have twitter there is a new way to keep in touch with you local and state politicians in Illinois.  

This is a great idea on, and no matter if you are a Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Libertarian, Democrat, whatever you are, you can keep up with what is going on in Springfield. And it is also a good way for you to get in touch with your local Representative or Senator.

Tweet Illinois

Hopefully every state will have one of these.

Virus alert

COMPUTER VIRUS WARNING –  http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

The
newest virus circulating is the ‘UPS Delivery Failure’. You will
receive an email from UPS Packet Service along with a packet number.
It will say that they were un-able to deliver a package sent to you on
such and such a date. It then asks you to print out the invoice copy
attached. DON’T TRY TO PRINT THIS.
IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS! Pass
this warning on to all your PC operators at work and home. This virus
has caused Millions of dollars in damage in the past few days.

Obama and McCain’s computers hacked into

Both Obama’s and McCain’s comuters were hacked into but a "foriegn entity"

H/T to American Thinker

The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.

At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of "phishing," a form of hacking often employed to steal passwords or credit-card numbers. But by the next day, both the FBI and the Secret Service came to the campaign with an ominous warning: "You have a problem way bigger than what you understand," an agent told Obama’s team. "You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system." The following day, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe heard from White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, to the same effect: "You have a real problem … and you have to deal with it." The Feds told Obama’s aides in late August that the McCain campaign’s computer system had been similarly compromised. A top McCain official confirmed to NEWSWEEK that the campaign’s computer system had been hacked and that the FBI had become involved.—Newsweek

It looks like either Russia or China were the perpetrators lookming for the Foreign Policies of both candidates to use at later times in negotiatings.