Category: Internet

Apple Phishing Site Mixes Truth With Lies

Give credit where credit is due but we have received this great Apple Phishing solicitation. Apple Phishing Site It reads: Dear customer, You’ve placed your Apple ID under the risk of termination by not keeping your information up to date. To complete the process, we just need to verify your information. Simply click the link below and sign in using your Apple ID and password to start the process. It provides a link “Verify Now” then continues: “Wondering why you got this email? When you don’t regularly update your Apple ID information, Apple will require you to sign in by following the link in a verification email and update your information. This is to help protect your identity and keep your account secure. For more information, see our frequently asked questions. Thanks, Apple Customer Support.

What is brilliant about this particular scam is that the return address in the email is to service@Apple.com and frequently asked questions link is to Apple.com. The Verify Now link, however, is to https://server45.host-argentina.com.ar/~pazfenor/administrator/Apple/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.html and the sign in page looks like this: Apple Phishing Site

When you sign in the bad guys get your Id and can rack up what they want at the iTunes store.

Beware of links in unsolicited emails and always check the address before typing in information.  Here is a description of “Phishing”

Apple Phishing Site Mixes Truth With Lies

Cyberbullying Panel At MN

Pennsylvania State Sen. Tom McGarrigle (R-26) is hosting a panel on cyberbullying, 7 tonight, April 8, at Marple Newtown High School, 120 Media Line Road, Newtown Square, Pa. 19073. Cyberbullying Panel At MN

RSVP by calling Nick Cocco at 610-853-4100.

Hat tip Delaware County Patriots.

Cyberbullying Panel At MN

Youth Smartphone Addiction

Once upon a time, the complaint was that the young spent too much time watching TV.  Youth Smartphone Addiction

Looks like that is no longer a problem.

eMarketer.com notes that about half of those 19 and 22 years old spend at least four hours a day with the mobile internet which means smartphones and tablets.

At least with TVs, you couldn’t drive with them.

Youth Smartphone Addiction

Google Evil Capitalist Or Just Avoid Google

Google evil capitalist and you won’t find Google. Google Evil Capitalist Or Just Avoid Google

But that should be no surprise as Google has apparently been skewing its searches for some time at the expense of its competitors.

The company that gives off a hip, anti-capitalist “Don’t Be Evil” vibe is unhip, capitalist and pretty evil, according to an investigation by  the Federal Trade Commission in 2012 that was  made public yesterday, March 19, by the Wall Street Journal.

The  FTC’s Bureau of Competition found evidence that Google deliberately demoted rivals and boosted its own services at the expense of local businesses (that would be the little guys), shopping websites, and travel websites by changing ranking criteria and  removing content from those sites.

The FTC bigwigs, however, decided not to sue Google saying that  while it posed  “real harm to consumers and to innovation” it “doesn’t violate the American antitrust laws.”

CNN Money speculates that the feds just thought it was  going to be a tough case.

We, however, will note without comment that the company’s billionaire principles Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are all huge donors to the Democrat Party and Barack Obama, with Schmidt actually being involved in the Obama administration.

We would suggest that one use for seraches DuckDuckGo, a scrappy Paoli-based company reputed for its respect of privacy, and Firefox in lieu of Chrome as one’s browser.

Google Evil Capitalist Or Just Avoid Google

OTT Supplanting Texting

eMarketer.com notes that 7.47 trillion text  messages were sent worldwide last year via short message service or SMS. This is up from 761 billion in 2004 but down from 7.7 trillion in 2012. OTT Supplanting Texting

What is supplanting them is over-the-top or OTT mobile messaging services which are done using services provided by companies like Facebook and Google rather than cell phone companies.

Last year, about 10 trillion OTT messages were sent. eMarkter estimates that by 2018 there will be 67 trillion of these messages sent and that traditional text messages will fall to 6.3 trillion.

OTT Supplanting Texting

Symbolics.Com Turned 30

Yesterday, March 15, was the 30th Anniversary of  .com. Symbolics.Com Turned 30

Yes, it was on March 15, 1985 that Symbolics, a computer manufacturer,  registered Symbolics.com, the first .com address.

While the pioneering company has since passed into history, the name is still active  having been acquired by XF.com Investments of Dallas in 2009, because its principle always wanted the oldest name on the net.

Symbolics.Com Turned 30

 

Curt Shilling Rocks Defending Daughter

If Curt Shilling, our favorite all-time Phillie, needed yet another reason for his deserved inclusion into the Hall of Fame, the rousing defense of his daughter, Gabriella, last week against cyber-bullies is an excellent one. Curt Shilling Rocks Defending Daughter

Curt tweeted, Feb. 25, a short proud papa note about Gabriella’s acceptance by Salve Regina University in Rhode Island and how she will be pitching for the softball team.

Well, the next week brought froth the vilest comments on Twitter regarding the young girl.

He noted the worst of the worst came from males attending college including college athletes; a vice president of a fraternity at Montclair State University, and college radio disc jockey.

He said it was not hard to find their identities. He said they were “pretty much ALL white, affluent, college attending children, and I mean children.”

He said he informed the athletes’ coaches and several were suspended and made to apologize.

“Gone was the tough guy tweeter, replaced by the “I’m so sorry apology used by those only sorry because they got caught,” Curt said. “It was EXACTLY like the Scared Straight episodes you watch where “tough” kids get brought to tears when they face the real world.”

He noted that some of this crap is going to follow these guys forever and deservedly.

Curt is an outspoken conservative Republican. The ones attacking his daughter don’t like him. We suspect they get their cues from David Letterman, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We suspect that  easy access to abortion is the political issue most dear to their hearts.

And we are certain that those proclaiming that conservatives “wage war on women” are just fine with having them as friends and allies.

To read Curt’s rant (language warning applicable as he posts some of the tweets against his daughter verbatim) go to his blog 38 pitches.wordpress.com.

Hat tip Carlos Perez at PJMedia.com

Curt Shilling Rocks Defending Daughter

Toomey Opposes Internet Regulation

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has declared opposition to the Obama Administration’s recent assumption of internet regulation. Toomey Opposes Internet Regulation

“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted that the Internet is a utility the government can heavily regulate,” he said. “This is terrible news for the American people. The last thing the Internet needs is a massive government takeover that threatens innovation, economic freedom, and jobs. Yet the FCC’s decision to impose heavy-handed regulations on broadband providers would do just that. The FCC’s decision is a big government, legally suspect solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist.

“One of the main reasons why the Internet has thrived, created jobs, and provided exciting innovations is because it has never been subject to political control. That is why I intend to fight against this unwise FCC action and keep our Internet free from more government restrictions.”

He said he discussed the matter on Feb. 26 with WHP radio’s RJ Harris that can be heard here.

Toomey Opposes Internet Regulation

World Retail Sales To Reach $22 Trillion

Worldwide retail sales are exptect to reach $22.49 trillion this year reports eMarket.com, and online sales are expected to hit $1.59 trillion.

China is expected to be the world leader in internet retail sales at $315.75 billion followed by the United States at $264.28 billion and the United Kingdom at $70.39 billion.

World Retail Sales To Reach $22 Trillion

2 Billion Smartphone Users

The number of smartphone users worldwide will be 2.16 billion in 2016, according to  eMarketer.com and smartphones will be 46 percent of the world’s mobile phones.
That means most people next year will have a mobile phone of some sort.
2 Billion Smartphone Users