Billion-Dollar Losing Bets

Who Are the Nation’s Biggest Suckers? Lottery Players In March 2012, AOL Daily Finance page ran an article by Rich Smith with the above title. It is well done and points out the futility of a not-so-sure thing, to the masses who bet away their discretionary income rather than invest wisely. The Billion-Dollar Bets paragraph [...]

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YANL – From Japan…Canada???

Just when might expect people would be wary of them, yet another Nigerian Letter (YANL) arrived in my spam bin. (I usually ignore them- but this one was so bad…) Needless to say this is an outstanding scam and not worth the time to read it, except perhaps to laugh. Sadly the scammer will probably [...]

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Pressure Pols To Act in Our Favor

Good Job Starbucks!! In a Reuters’ News Story today, seen on Yahoo at: finance.yahoo.com/news/starbucks-cups-send-fiscal-cliff-message-lawmakers-130845209–sector.html, the following comment was worth noting Chief Executive Howard Schultz (of Starbucks) is urging workers in Starbucks’ roughly 120 Washington-area shops to write “come together” on customers’ cups on Thursday and Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama and lawmakers return to [...]

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WordPress Security Warning: Pingback Vulnerability & Temporary Fix

Online –  WP Security Lock has posted an article about a new velnerabiltiy of WordPress sites of all persuasions, including v 3.5.The article goes on to expain how to defeat this until the WordPress Community posts an update with a fix. According to their website:

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What’s in B to C Commerce today?

Are Existing Customers Valued Anymore? I have a Triple Play “package” (Cable, Internet, & Phone) with a major supplier. My initial “Good Deal” ran out recently and I was told by an otherwise competent-sounding sales rep that the present offer shown on TV, a much lower cost one, was to attract new customers, not for [...]

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Opinions on Company Behaviors & More

Does Comcast Really Suck? At the  onset of the  2012 Thanksgiving season, I was greeted with an  incredibly poor performance  by Comcast Corp. and also noted critically some of the Corporate “inconsistencies” touted as sales incentives in the local media in the Philadelphia PA area for Black Friday sales. I was about to retire this [...]

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YANL – Again & on the Phone. too!

Lest you think the well-known scam called “The Nigerian Letter” has died, be aware it is well and evidently still raking in money from the gullible and unaware. Shortly after receiving a telephone version directly from Nigeria offering me the $3.5 millions plus a free car from the MGM Grand, won in a random drawing, [...]

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A New Direction

I will be moving this site in a new direction: my opinions on scams and poor business practices in the USA.  But will keep some of the links to scam and virus information as a general way to help anyone who wants to avoid or fight back against the  truly unethical and criminal excesses online [...]

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Radiation map of Japan

The Japanese government has published online map data about radiation levels in Eastern Japan. You can zoom in and out, scroll around and select data from: Background radiation in microsievert per hour Contamination by caesium 134 and 137 combined (Cs-134+Cs-137) in becquerel per square metre Contamination by caesium 134 (Cs-134) in becquerel per square metre [...]

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Microsoft Outlook Web Access Script Insertion Vulnerability

Gaël Delalleau has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

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Mac OS X Java Multiple Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported and acknowledged in Java for Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose system information or potentially sensitive …

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VMware ESX Server Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities

VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware ESX Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose system information or potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or…

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Solar energy, USA vs. Germany

Recently I came across an article that quoted a Forbes commentary (“Sue OPEC? Congress Should Sue Itself”, 2008-07-09) comparing solar energy development in the USA (or lack thereof) with the situation Germany, where 2010 was a veritable boom year for photo-voltaic panels. Two maps and one quote underneath caught my attention: Check out the map [...]

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Symantec pcAnywhere Format String Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec pcAnywhere, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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BlackBerry Products PDF Distiller Unspecified Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Professional Software, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

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Mahara Cross-Site Scripting and PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mahara, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

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