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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Hackers invade cell phone: A Hawaii Kai man's bill hits $5,000 for unauthorized calls after he answers a call from a phone number he did not know

Hawaii residents apparently are falling victim to a scam triggered simply by answering their mobile phones.

Callers then hack into mobile phones and use the phone number to make long-distance calls and possibly gain access to other information.

"It's crazy. ... Now, with all these smart phones ... everybody has to be careful," said Hawaii Kai resident Kaulana Chang.

Chang has one piece of advice after his experience: Use caller identification and don't answer unless you know the telephone number of the caller.

Chang, 30, said he apparently answered a call on his BlackBerry from someone with a number in the 866 area code, which is normally set aside for toll-free numbers.

The caller was able to use a computer program to obtain enough information to use his phone number and charge $5,000 worth of international calls to his account.

Chang said luckily, his cell phone carrier, Sprint, was understanding and canceled the charges.

He said the illegal charges accumulated over a six-month period, and he notified Sprint of them.

Chang, who works as an event coordinator and magician, said that four or five times, he was unable to use his mobile phone when hackers were using it, and he lost business.

"It's not just me. I've had some people ... tell me stories," he said.

Cybercrime specialist Chris Duque, who worked for the Honolulu Police Department for nearly 30 years, said the scam has been happening for several years.

Duque said the 866 area code caller used a computer program to gather information to make third-party calls using Chang's number.

"It's pretty common," Duque said.

He said the scam usually originates in a foreign country, making capture and prosecution difficult.

Duque said these kinds of scams financially affect communications companies.

"The industry is taking a hit," he said. "It goes into the millions of dollars."

Duque said if you don't recognize who the caller is, don't respond.

"Personally, I don't answer calls if I don't recognize the number," he said.

Duque said he waits for callers to leave a message, and if he doesn't recognize them, he doesn't call back.

"You've got to be in control," he said. "You don't let the caller be in control."

He said phone users should be especially suspicious about numbers with the area codes 800, 888, 866 and 900.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

The Federal Trade Commission said to minimize risk of identity theft:

» Be wary of where you put your personal information, including your Social Security number, mother's maiden name, account numbers and other identifying information.

» Before you share any personal information, confirm that you are dealing with a legitimate organization. Check an organization's Web site by typing its URL in the address line rather than cutting and pasting it. Many companies post scam alerts when their name is used improperly. Or call customer service using the number listed on your account statement or in the telephone book.

Facebook is shoring up its privacy policy as the social media giant continues to expand its testing of thousands of games and applications, prepares for location-sharing and more of its 400 million users are able to interact with friends through third-party sites.

With a posting on its today, Facebook is inviting users to submit comments on proposed revisions to its Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

It is also announcing possible partnerships with websites that Facebook pre-approves “to offer a more personalized experience at the moment you visit the site.”

“In such instances, we would only introduce this feature with a small, select group of partners and we would also offer new controls,” wrote Michael Richter, deputy general counsel for Facebook.

As its popularity continues unabated, Facebook is facing mounting criticism from U.S. privacy advocates and foreign governments over its lack of privacy controls. It is also hearing warnings from the online security community about its vulnerability to hackers.

“It is important to note that, while we’re still developing many aspects of these products, user control over privacy remains essential to our innovation process and we’ll continue to develop new tools to help you control the things you share on Facebook,” Richter said.

Users can view the redlined deletions and additions to the policies. Most of them involve detailed elaborations on the privacy settings available to users.

One section explains in further detail the “Everyone” setting, which is designed to enable users to share content “as broadly as possible.”

“To enable this distribution, we allow others to see, access, display, export, distribute and redistribute content set to ‘Everyone’ and we’ve tried to make this even clearer,” Richter said.

In another revision, the following has been added:

”Your contact information settings control who can contact you on Facebook, and who can see your contact information such as your email and phone number(s). Remember that none of this information is required except for your email address, and you do not have to share your email address with anyone.”

Facebook has come under increasing criticism from European authorities who contend that Facebook users are posting content containing private information on non-users without getting proper consent.

The issue of privacy extends into the area of online security. Both Facebook and Twitter have come under in recent weeks by scammers using phishing emails to gain access to user passwords.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Trying to access YouTube this morning proved a little difficult prompting me to wonder if the site had been hacked or was experiencing a denial of service attack. a YouTube spokesperson was quoted as saying, "We apologize for the inconvenience, but YouTube is temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are currently working to restore the site."

Though I cannot find any other reports, so this is pure speculation on my part: Last night I noticed that the Google Adsense network seemed to be down for about an hour around 10 PST. I first noticed that all of the Google advertisements on our site were mysteriously gone at around 1800 PST. I then surfed on over to at least a dozen other sites that I know have Google ads only to discover that there was none displayed their either.

Another round of pure speculation: During the same time last night when Google Adsense was not working, GoDaddy DNS seemed to be having a hiccup. The ACW domain is hosted at GoDaddy and I have a DNS redirect to our blogger site. Around 1800 PST last night, when accessing our site, I received a 'Service Unavailable' message from GoDaddy.

If I am right about the Adsense outage and the GoDaddy issues I was having, then that would make GoDaddy and two major Google services down in less than a twelve hour period. This just days after Google went on the offensive with China and a day after GoDaddy joined forces with Google.

This information has been provided by Mike Wright

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3 Best Gmail Tips: How to Use Custom Gmail Addresses | How to Use Gmail as a Hard Drive | How to access GMAIL without Internet

Use Custom Gmail Addresses

You can make up an unlimited number of arbitrary email addresses to use. You can use all these addresses when making a purchase online or want to track a conversation or anything else.These email addresses you can create using plus-addressing.

Simply append a plus sign (+) and any string of letters or numbers (meaningful to you). For e.g. my mail id is . Now I can create as many custom emails as I can. For all my online shopping’s, I am using amarjitsingh1984+ and to follow any comments stream online I am using amarjitsingh1984+. I can further create subtags such as amarjitsingh1984+News+ & amarjitsingh+News+.

The magic of these email address is that all plus-addressed emails I am receiving to my mail id itself only. Here I can use filters and labels in Gmail inbox as per my convenience.

Some of my favorite uses of plus-addressing are:

· Informing my mates for biking trip: I am inviting all my Venturous Bikers Team usingamarjitsingh1984+ and copying myself a copy to keep track. To finalize a trip, it takes around 20-30 days, so I can easily keep track all emails.

· Subscribing News Letters: All my newsletters I subscribed using unique mail ID. For e.g. useamarjitsingh1984+ to subscribe www.quickonlinetips.com newsletter & using amarjitsingh1984+ to subscribe hacking sites news letter.

Use Gmail as a Hard Drive

GMail Drive (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm) provides 2+ gigabytes of storage allotted to your Gmail account right onto your desktop. It looks and feels just like a regular hard drive, and it’s not available locally of course. This drive is networked.

Open http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm and in download section, you will see Gmail Drive. Download it and install.

Enter your Gmail username and password and click the OK button to log in. Your drive will be ready to use. Simply drag and drop the data and files to and fro between your local drive and GMail Drive.

NOTE: Mac OS X (10.3 or above) users should check out the freely available gDisk (http://gdisk.sourceforge.net) that adds a Gmail-powered drive to your desktop.

TIP: Using this Gdrive, no need to stick with pendrive or any other external drive. Go to your friend’s place, open Grive and copy paste the required data. Now come back to you system and open it. SO SIMPLE.

How to access GMAIL without Internet

Using this gmail tool, you can access all you gmail mails even when you are not connected with internet also. Similarly like we are using outlook for or official purpose, you can use gmail. All you mail you send while offline will be placed in you outbox and automatically send when you connected to internet.

Once you turn on this feature, you need to download gmail gears on your system. As long as you stay connected with internet, this gear will continuously synchronize the cache on local system with gmail server .

Just follow these steps to get started:

· Click Settings and click the offline tab in your gmail inbox.

· Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.

· Click Save Changes.

· A POP up window will open asking to install gmail gears on your system. Click install

· After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline" link in green in the upper righth corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

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After an investigation of months conducted jointly with the F.B.I., French authorities on Tuesday detained a 25-year-old Frenchman accused of hacking the Twitter accounts of several high-profile people, including the official account of President Obama and an account for Britney Spears, French media reported Wednesday. The man, known by the alias Hacker Croll, is accused of infiltrating the accounts on Twitter, a social networking Web site, in April 2009. French authorities have not revealed his real name. The man was released Wednesday but is set to face charges in court in June. He could be sentenced to up to two years in prison if convicted.

Go Daddy to Stop Registering .cn Domain Names in China

GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, will stop registering .cn domains in China after the government there has demanded personal information about people who have purchased domain names from GoDaddy in the past, the company said Wednesday during a hearing in the U.S. Congress.

GoDaddy's decision, announced at a Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) hearing, comes after the Chinese government has demanded that the registrar provide photo identification, business identification and physically signed registration for all .cn domains registered through GoDaddy.com in the six years the company has been operating in China, said Christine Jones, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the Go Daddy Group, GoDaddy.com's parent company.

"We're concerned about the security of the individuals affected by [the] new requirements," Jones said. "Not only that, but we're concerned about the chilling effects we believe the requirements could have on new domain name registrations, and therefore, the free exchange of ideas on the Internet."

Previously, China's domain-name authority, CNNIC, had only required GoDaddy to collect the name, address and e-mail address of .cn customers, and that information is commonly provided when people register domain names worldwide, Jones said. CNNIC requested the additional personal information for all domain owners in February, and it appeared to GoDaddy that the Chinese government was trying to gain more control over who registers domain names, she added.

CNNIC told GoDaddy that if it did not provide the additional information, "the domain names were going to stop working," Jones said. "We have 40 million domain names under management. We've done this a lot. This is the first time any registry has ever asked use to retroactively obtain information on individuals who have registered domain names through our company."

GoDaddy.com's decision to scale back its Chinese business comes two days after Google stopped censoring search results, news information and photos in China. Members of the CECC praised both companies for taking a stand against Chinese censorship and surveillance.

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Conservatives party in Britain has been embarrassed after hackers attack on a party website: Visitors redirected to pornography website

The site, called “Cash Gordon”, was intended to highlight the Labor party’s ties to the trade union Unite, with the slogan: “Charlie (Wheelan) gives the cash, Gordon gives the power.” The page was designed to spread the campaign via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. However, hackers discovered that basic security measures weren’t in place on the page.

Visitors to the site found themselves being redirected to pornography websites, or the Labour home page. One of the sites key features was to display any message posted on Twitter if it included the term “#cashgordon”. But pranksters soon took advantage of this by writing anti-Conservative tweets including the campaign hashtag, all of which appeared in a box on the Conservative Party website. One tweet read, “So are the Tories really displaying an unmoderated Twitter stream on a campaign website?” while another said, “Tories can’t work the internet. Wouldn’t trust them to run a tuck-shop.”

Later on Monday it was discovered that the developers who built the Cash Gordon website had not included a standard security device to protect the message facility from outside users. By writing Twitter messages containing “#cashgordon” and their own piece of web code, Internet users they were able to redirect visitors to any other site on the Internet. While some visiters were sent to hardcore pornography websites the “code injection” attacks sent other users to a video of Never Gonna Give You Up, the Rick Astley pop song, in a well-known Internet joke known as “Rickrolling”.

The Conservatives were forced to take down the website so the security loophole could be fixed and so far the problems appear to have been fixed. A party spokesman said, “There was an attempt made to redirect #CashGordon users to other websites. We’ve made the necessary adjustments to the site and the #CashGordon campaign has now led to many thousands people hearing about Unite’s funding stranglehold over the Labour Party.”

Source: Xinhua/Agencies

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