by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 IDG: Information Risk: Lessons, Awareness, & Global Threats
02 UGNN Maleware Report for 1307-28
03 Cyber Security – Escalating Onslaught of Cyber Attacks
04 PrivacyScan 1.3
05 iOS 6: Dialing Phone Extensions
06 Default Folder X update
07 Hidden OS X Features
08 10 tips for privacy on Apple devices
09 Teachers With Apps Recognizes Outstanding Developers
10 Quotes: Wisdom of Ben Franklin
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01 IDG: Information Risk: Lessons, Awareness, & Global Threats
Data breaches, cyber-threats, and fraud are all on the rise. Such malicious threats combined with human error are exposing points of weakness in a fast-changing, complex information landscape and are putting brand reputation on the line. So how do you make sure your organisation’s data is safe? This week we offer lessons that new businesses can learn from their more experienced counterparts, PwC’s second annual Information Risk Maturity Index, and a global security report that offers regional perspectives from around the world.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/idg_information_risk/
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02 UGNN Malware Report for 1307-28
With everything else that’s going on, we’re now seeing phishing and drive-by malware attacks heavily increasing. We have started posting some of our alerts as infographics, mainly to Facebook. If you are not a UGNet Facebook follower, you probably should be: http://www.facebook.com/groups/UGNet/
Here goes:
* Poker player arrested for stealing money through Android malware
* Malware targets Mac and Windows users simultaneously
* Apple hack exploited with new phishing campaign
* Royal Baby Emails Disguise Hidden Zbot Malware
* List of global hacking ring’s targets, losses
* New Phishing Scam Equals Double Trouble
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/1307-28maleware/
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03 Cyber Security – Escalating Onslaught of Cyber Attacks
While the population moans about security and government spying, the cybercriminals are having a heyday.
* Universities Struggling to Protect Digital Information From Escalating Onslaught of Cyber Attacks
* Lakeland hack proves government cyber security health checks are vital
* Certified Products, Malware Prevention and Cyber-Security
* Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China’s Xi
* UP student wows judges of cyber security tilt
* Instagram users hacked by smoothie spammer
* Should Schools Improve Cyber Security?
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/cyber_security_7/
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04 PrivacyScan 1.3
As legal debates regarding Internet consumer privacy rage on, SecureMac, an authority on Apple Macintosh security, has released the v1.3 update to its PrivacyScan software. In addition to the usability updates (including new support for Opera 15 and Chromium), the software is now available directly from the PrivacyScan Web site as a 15-day free trial.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/privacyscan-1-3/
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05 iOS 6: Dialing Phone Extensions
Those of us who remember the days of BBSes and other online services that predated the Internet can relate to this tip from The Mac Observer (TMO), written by Melissa Holt.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/ios-6-dialing-phone-extensions/
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06 Default Folder X update
St. Clair Software has announced the immediate availability of Default Folder X 4.5.10. This brings performance and feature improvements to its utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. It also updates compatibility with the latest developer release of Mavericks, the upcoming version of OS X.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/default-folder-x-update/
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07 Hidden OS X Features
This appears in an article by Waqas Ejaz on the Dzineblog360.com Web site. From list of tips gathered from Ask Different.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/hidden-os-x-features/
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08 10 tips for privacy on Apple devices
This article by Geoffrey Goetz was posted on the GigaOM Web site. Of course, he is correct in stating that is difficult to protect your privacy on today’s devices.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/10-tips-for-privacy-on-apple-devices/
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09 Teachers With Apps Recognizes Outstanding Developers
I am always interested in software that enables education. Therefore, I was interested in hearing that Teachers With Apps has announced their Teachers With Apps Certified Developer program. To kick off this initiative, they are honoring 15 App Developers who have consistently brought education apps to the mobile platform that are exemplary in the following areas: content, presentation, and execution, as well as overall user experience.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/teachers-with-apps-recognizes-outstanding-developers/
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10 Quotes: Wisdom of Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin said all of these, as written in his journal and the Poor Man’s almanac.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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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.
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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