by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Cybercrime leveraging Boston Bombings for profit
02 UGNN Malware Report for 1304-22
03 Facebook: CISPA Another round of Pros and Cons
04 Anonymous Turns Up the Volume on Internet Blackout
05 What happens to your digital estate when you die?
06 UGNN Facebook Update: Big money, hacks, privacy and more
07 iPads in business, Cloud technology
08 Erem — Read Your News 1.9
09 Boxer
10 DailyCost 1.5.5
11 iOS Hints & Tips
12 Boot Runner 1.4
13 Quotes: Making Decisions
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01 Cybercrime leveraging Boston Bombings for profit
Cybercriminals are spoofing CNN news with “breaking” news “Boston Marathon Bombings: Who benefits”… but are actually .exe trojans ready to infect YOUR machine! Later in the week, direct headlines were pulled and video spoofed to download malware. Beware! Pin this, and share to your friends and UG members!
http://www.ugnn.com/safenetting/ALERTS/boston_marathon_alert.html
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02 UGNN Malware Report for 1304-22
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report
We’re reporting on the latest trends and hacks in your online security — we cannot understand why Google seems to turn a deaf ear to all the bad things they’re pushing on the world through Google Play, and the various Google malware on smart phones. The more we try to keep up… the more it demands.
We’ve gotten a slew of new updates before we can even get this out!
Here goes:
* Family of “BadNews” malware in Google Play downloaded up to 9 million times
* Bing leads to 5 times more malware than Google? Not so, says Microsoft
* Malware and financial fraud alert in wake of Boston Marathon tragedy
* Russian malware mines bitcoins via botnet, security firm warns
* Hackers exploit Texas tragedy to spread malware
* Raid on cyber cafes & ATMs
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/maleware_1304-22/
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03 Facebook: CISPA Another round of Pros and Cons
InfoManager is building a facts sheet on the new issues surrounding CISPA, but it was not ready for today’s InfoManager.
Michael Lambert shared multiple links on Facebook; this link goes to a video article “Here is why, CISPA More Dangerous than SOPA !”… by an unidentified spokesperson.
It is the slippery slope… we know because our Safenetting and Spamcop operatives track some 7 to 9 THOUSAND attacks per day on U.S. individuals, businesses, and government — See our alert above; that’s real — not political bantering. Those attacks are a real and present danger. The question is, how safe do you want to be?
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04 Anonymous Turns Up the Volume on Internet Blackout
The controversial CISPA was reintroduced and passed in the House with a 288-127 vote. Anonymous announced an internet blackout protest on Monday, April 22nd for 24 hours.
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
The group strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations. It also opposes Scientology and government
corruption.
Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylized Guy Fawkes masks (the Guy Fawkes mask is a depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London in 1605. http://ow.ly/kgLR3
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05 What happens to your digital estate and online holdings when you die?
The “boomer” generation is reaching the phase of estate planning, and as we watch some of our fellow user group members and officers pass into the next world, we need to start thinking about our own digital estates. Fred Showker’s 60-Second Window this week addresses this whole subject, head on
http://www.graphic-design.com/60-Seconds/online_estate_planning
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06 UGNN Facebook Update: Big money, hacks, privacy and more
UGNN InfoManager Facebook updates follow the world of Facebook because it’s got to do with YOU! We’ve got some good things and bad things, and as usual, Facebook reflects a cross-section of world society anyway…
* Students’ Facebook confessions scrutinized by university officials
* Twitter and Facebook Celebrate Capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
* Facebook Understands Europe’s Privacy Fears Says Sandberg
* Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Confirm Their Dominance
* Larry Page ducks question on impact of Facebook Home
* A small step toward safeguarding Facebook privacy
* Facebook ‘hacks’ teen safety with Project:Connect
* Facebook Launches Free Voice Calling For Android
…and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/facebook_1304-21/
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07 iPads in business, Cloud technology
Find out how to gain a competitive advantage with cloud-based business models and discover the benefits of integrating social collaboration tools into business. Plus, find out if you are deploying the iPad in business properly with a two-part online seminar series.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/ipads-in-business/
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08 Erem — Read Your News 1.9
ONE Software announces erem — Read Your News 1.9 for iOS. erem enables users to read news from their choice of news sources from over 25 languages in over 12 languages in a format optimized for mobile devices.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/erem-read-your-news-1-9/
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09 Boxer
Boxer is a free application that will allow a Macintosh to run MS-DOS games. Just drag-drop your games onto Boxer and you’re playing in minutes. It wraps the games into app-style gameboxes that run when clicked.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/boxer/
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10 DailyCost 1.5.5
Tracking day to day finances just became simpler with the new financial mobile app, DailyCost 1.5.5. This app was developed and designed by one-man design team Guopeng Liang, founder, designer and developer of Guopeng Liang Design, China. Since launching on October 9, 2012, DailyCost has surpassed 240,000 users worldwide. DailyCost ranked among the top-five finance category apps in more than 90 countries including China, Singapore, United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/dailycost-1-5-5/
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11 iOS Hints & Tips
I am researching for my next User Group (TUMS) meeting. The topic is to be iOS Hints & Tips. Here are a few that I have discovered. Please let us know if you have any others that would be good to present.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/ios-hints-tips/
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12 Boot Runner 1.4
Twocanoes Software has announced the release of Boot Runner 1.4. New in Boot Runner 1.4 are additional editing options for popover text, a restart countdown display and menu bar system restart without requiring authentication. Boot Runner provides complete start up management and control for dual-boot Macs, including a custom boot screen and menu bar boot selector. Boot Runner requires OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OS X 10.7 (Lion) or OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/boot-runner-1-4/
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13 Quotes: Making Decisions
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments.
You can create a rationale for anything.
In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.
–Nathan Myhrvold (in “The Microsoft Provocateur” by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker)
The more urgent the need for a decision, the less apparent becomes
the identity of the decision-maker.
–Murphy’s Eighteenth Law
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is
the right thing to do.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
–Theodore Roosevelt
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** THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred Showker.
Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network. He’s been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he’s been a volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and beyond.
Currently working primarily with the Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime member of TUMS (the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society).
Fred has been active in UGs since 1986, first the AOL UG Forum, then the User Group Network. He spoke at the original AppleWorld in 1987, and served as Apple User Group Advisory Board Member for three years. He founded the User Group Academy, and the Appleseeds Foundation
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