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Chances are good that you’re heard of the huge security vulnerability
for Windows-running “Centrino” PC laptops with wireless networking
built-in. This article talks more about it, and points to the
software fix.
As always, any noise you may have heard about Mac laptops being
equally vulnerable turned out to be garbage, once again.
From: stephan
Hi Tony,
We are looking for a freelance web designer. We have quite a few
projects in the works, and the person we have been using is moving
into a full-time position with Corporate America (the fool …).
Do you have any suggestions/referrals?
Let me know.
Stephan Donche
Principal/viadesign
619-220-0470 #302
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From Duane:
I have worked with a gentlemen that may be able to help. He has a high
level of professionalism and is great to work with. Please feel free to
contact and discuss.
His name is Adam Tolk and he can be reached at (858) 926-5834.
Good luck.
Duane Saucier
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From Rick:
Tony,
Probably the absolute best in SD with vast experience is 1011i (Interactive), a marketing company. David Kunze is president. They are true pros at
internet based marketing & presentation, and have worked with many, many good
accounts. David used to be president of Cybertech before it was acquired and
folded into Inland Gaming Co. He then started this marketing firm and it is quite
successful. Troxel has used them for five years with excellent result. These
guys grew up as experts in internet marketing strategy, planning and building
web sites, related ad programs and so forth. They represent the new structure
in marketing companies, essentially 100% web oriented.
From: Angela usedmac3 @ charter.net
G4, original titanium 800 mhz or faster with 1 GB of ram
Needs a USB port, an Ethernet port and a CD ROM drive
Will either need to have a WiFi card or be able to have one installed
needs to run:
Tiger
Safari or Firefox (preferred)
Mail
Illustrator CS or CS2
Need by 1 October, 2006
Sometimes equipment fails, and we need to bring it in for repair.
Nowadays, the repair centers are swamped - Macs and iPods are selling
faster than ever before, and the Apple Stores can be quite crowded.
If you just walk in, expecting to be able to get help, you’re in for
a LONG wait, if you can get helped at all. You can wait as much as
four hours!
Luckily, Apple has come up with a nice system for making an
appointment. At midnight every night, the appointment-making software
resets itself so that all time-slots are open. If you get up in the
morning and immediately make an appointment online, then you are 95%
certain of getting an appointment at the time that you would like,
but only on that same day:
• Apple Store Fashion Valley
• Apple Store University Towne Centre
Just log in as a guest. Then, make your appointment. Then, bring in
the ailing hardware a few minutes early. They will probably still
make you wait a bit, but it’s a breeze compared to the alternative.
Prepare to be “gobsmacked” (it IS a british article)…
This list is a repository for every keyboard secret in OS X, and should continue to grow exponentially over time. Some of these are well known, some are not. Shortcuts in the Menu category are common rather than universal.
Here’s a way to decipher them:
- The backwards “y” is the Option key
- “^” is the Control key
- The upward-pointing arrow is the Shift key.
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International crime rings, not hackers, true Internet villains
by Glenn Chapman, Yahoo News
Sat Aug 5, 10:13 PM ET
LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Organized crime is winning the Internet security war, specialists warned at the world’s foremost gathering of computer hackers in Las Vegas.
The online peril is no longer brilliant young social outcasts penetrating networks for notoriety; it is international crime rings swiping billions of dollars with keystrokes and malicious computer codes, cyber cops agreed.
Ironically, potential champions in the battle for Internet privacy were sought among the thousands of hackers that made pilgrimages to the US gambling center nicknamed “Sin City” for the three-day DefCon 14 conference.
Online evil doers were crime rings working out of countries such as Russia, Romania and Brazil, and their nefarious technical skills were keeping ahead of computer security experts, veterans of the cyber-crime battle said.
“We are getting our butts kicked, there is no doubt about it,” said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense. “There is a lot more of a bond and a sharing of tools in their society than in ours.”
DefCon, in its 14th year, was a neutral ground where hackers, computer security professionals and US government agents exchanged expertise, according to organizers.
“The hacker is the good guy,” said Joe Grand, who described himself as an inventor by day and a hardware hacker by night. “A hacker is someone interested in figuring out how to make things work.”
Kenneth Geers explained that he was at DefCon to glean new hacking tactics and recruit talent to join him at his job hardening the US military’s computer network.
“If we are not getting into the weeds and hearing what the hackers are saying about weaknesses and vulnerabilities, we are absolutely screwed,” Geers said. “We seek out rock star hackers because they live and breathe this stuff”
For Geers, the goal was to prevent aircraft carrier’s communications from being routed to enemies or missile guidance systems from being compromised.
Online onslaughts were a relentless reality for ordinary computer users, said Gadi Evron, who managed Internet security for the Israeli government before going to work for the firms SecuriTeam and Beyond Security.
“A lot of it involves the mafia,” Evron said during a panel discussion titled “Internet Wars 2006.”
“This is not about kiddies, hackers who sit around and tinker. It is about using the Internet for real crime.”
More than two billion dollars will be stolen this year by online “phishing,” using fake website and bogus e-mails to trick people into revealing personal information then used for identity theft, according to Evron.
That loss will be multiplied by attacks involving the secret implanting of computer codes that can do things such as record keystrokes used for online banking or take remote control of computers, Evron said.
There is such a glut of stolen credit card data that it can be bought online for three dollars each, said special agent Andrew Fried of the US Internal Revenue Service.
Fried estimated that one in five home computers in the country was infected with malicious computer code, or “malware.”
“We have gone to houses and done search warrants only to find people’s computers were being used without them knowing it,” Fried said. “Most of what I see is systems being compromised to be taken over.”
Armies of zombie computers can be used to attack websites of companies that depend on Internet business for their revenues, the specialists explained.
Criminals commanding such “botnets” can demand money from the companies in exchange for not crippling their online business.
“The whole idea of extortion on the Internet is funny to me,” Evron said. “They won’t protect you. If you pay them they will probably attack you anyway, and they will be back.”
Cyber crime ranks only behind terrorism and counter-intelligence as top priorities at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, special agent Thomas Grasso said during the panel discussion.
Collaboration with counterparts such as Interpol and Scotland Yard are vital to combat crime rings that often take refuge in countries with scant police resources, Grasso said.
The law and computer security technology have lagged behind criminal techniques on the Internet, according to Grasso.
“The Internet is not safe and your e-mail is not safe,” Evron said. “It is an arms race and all we can do is enter that arms race from all different angles.”
I’m now an officially-certified Apple Business Agent. What the heck does that mean?
It means that I now have access to more information than I did before, directly from Apple, so I can be even more knowledgeable about new hardware, right off the bat.
The end-result is that I’m an even better source of information, especially for shopping. Pick my brains!
Apple JUST posted this, a few moments ago…
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