by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Safenetting: July Cyberattacks, Malware, Spyware, Phishing and more
02 Cyber Criminal Forum Taken Down – Arrests in 20 Countries
03 UGNN Facebook Update: EFF, Donald Trump and a lot of idiots posting to Facebook
04 ICANN Report: Our endless ranting is beginning to work
05 Get El Capitan features now in Yosemite
06 15 Awesome Open Source Graphics Software
07 Image2icon 2.0 for Mac Icon Creation
08 Bypass iTunes and Transfer MKV, AVI and FLAC from Mac/PC to iOS
09 What iTunes has been missing: good Cleaner Software
10 Ten years ago today, InfoManager Lynn wrote:
11 Quotes: Don Herold, Andy Rooney, and Carl Jung
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01 Safenetting: July Cyberattacks, Malware, Spyware, Phishing and more
While building this week’s issue, I’ve met some of the most undesirable people ever on the Web. You should read some of the comments which follow these articles – people just think the world owes them a living, security and the Internet, yet they don’t want to give up their own secrecy for their own security. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Anyway, intelligent people like you will understand and educate yourselves:
* Trend Micro discovers Hacking Team Android malware app that avoids Google Play checks
* Wicked WikiLeaks leaks considered harmful: Alert over malware lurking in dumped docs
* Insidious client-side malware targets banks through customers
* New point-of-sale malware distributed by Andromeda botnet
* Feds say they have shut down Darkode malware marketplace
* Google Chrome Steps Up Its Malware Detection
* Warning: Voicemail part of malware attack
* Masked drive-by attacks hide malware
* Phishing is still a people problem
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/cyber_security_1507/
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02 Cyber Criminal Forum Taken Down – Arrests in 20 Countries
It was, in effect, a one-stop, high-volume shopping venue for some of the world’s most prolific cyber criminals. Called Darkode, this underground, password-protected, online forum was a meeting place for those interested in buying, selling, and trading malware, botnets, stolen personally identifiable information, credit card information, hacked server credentials, and other pieces of data and software that facilitated complex cyber crimes all over the globe. But all that changed on July 15, 2015
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/cyber_crime_takedown/
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03 UGNN Facebook Update: EFF, Donald Trump and a lot of idiots posting to Facebook
Another fun issue of UGNN Facebook InfoManager looks at how Facebook is taking over your life! Well, first there’s the pure distaste for the guy who watched two teens die instead of helping just for the sake of his Facebook video! Oh, then there’s the EFF, Donald Trump and a lot of idiots posting to Facebook! Have fun
* Anyone In The World Can Now Use Facebook Messenger Without A Facebook Account
* 4,000 Facebook Friend Requests for video of 17-Year-Old Dying In Car Crash
* Facebook Stock Jumps After Trying Out New E-Commerce Feature
* The War Between Russia and Ukraine Is on Facebook Too
* Facebook Wants to Own Your Life, Not Imitate Amazon
* Donald Trump is Dominating Facebook Chatter in Iowa
* Three Ways Facebook Needs to Execute on Video
* EFF Defends What’s Her Face? From Facebook
* How to Declutter Your Facebook News Feed
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/facebook_update_1507/
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04 ICANN Report: Our endless ranting is beginning to work
The long war to expose ICANN’s abuse of the Internet naming system, and their total disregard for accountability may finally have gotten the attention of the people who can do something about it. We’re encouraged that several agencies have entered investigations into ICANN’s obvious disregard for law and their own regulations. But the war is far from over, and there’s no way to predict who will win: the cybercriminals or the Internet.
* Twitter buyout hoax will happen again, blame easy access to company Web names
* Will 2016 Politics Trump Bipartisan Support for the MSM and DOTCOM Act?
* Unredacted: ICANN’s hidden role in fierce battle over .Africa rights
* Twitter Inc Takeover Offer Viable – At Right Price: Softbank COO
* Public Revolts Against Plan to Kill Domain Name Privacy
* Unmasking Shady, Anonymous E-Commerce
* Rage Against the ICANN Machine
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/icann_report_1507/
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05 Get El Capitan features now in Yosemite
Roman Loyola has written this article on Macworld.com.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/get-el-capitan-features-now-in-yosemite/
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06 15 Awesome Open Source Graphics Software
Gary Kampel posted this link on the UG InfoManager Facebook page with the comment, “I love lists.” As any regular reader knows, so do I.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/15-awesome-open-source-graphics-software/
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07 Image2icon 2.0 for Mac Icon Creation
Shiny Frog has announced the release of Image2icon 2.0 on the Mac App Store. Image2icon offers the easiest way for anyone to create their own Mac icons as well as customize folders and files. Since its first public release ten years ago, Image2icon has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and has became one of the favorite tools of the OS X community.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/image2icon_mac_icon_creation/
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08 Bypass iTunes and Transfer MKV, AVI and FLAC from Mac/PC to iOS
Here’s another of those apps that iTunes users have been waiting for: WALTR for Mac OS X and Windows. WALTR serves as an excellent tool to get media files (music & video) onto your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch device quickly, and to no longer worry about unsupported formats.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/tune_sweeper/
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09 What iTunes has been missing: good Cleaner Software
Whether you need to remove exact iTunes duplicates or multiples of the same song across albums, the newly released Mac OSX software, Tune Sweeper 4, contains a variety of criteria that can be applied to tailor the search and removal. You can either manually review the duplicates found and pick which tracks to keep, or let Tune Sweeper 4 pick for you based upon your preferences. With just a couple of clicks, all of your duplicates can be removed.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/07/july_cyber_attacks/
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10 Ten years ago today, InfoManager Lynn wrote:
“A Guide To All Things Macintosh” This site didn’t give me many new links, but it certainly reminded me of many I have used in the past. I was surprised that they didn’t list dealmac as a price comparison site.
http://www.magicpubs.com/mac/users.html
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11 Quotes: Don Herold, Andy Rooney and Carl Jung
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
– Don Herold
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
– Andy Rooney
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung
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…and have a great week!
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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.
Lynn is currently working to rebuilding the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society (TUMS) and also is a member of the Apple Corps of Dallas. An active participate on several MUG Facebook pages as well.
Fred has been a user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the Web. Fred started and developed the User Group Network as a parallel organization to the Mug News Service, then continued through the founding of the Association of Apple Computer Users and Groups, and continues today at http://www.UGNN.com/.
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