Top Antivirus Products For Android Devices

Folks, today Neil Rubenking at PC Magazine has posted a review of AV products for your Android mobile devices.

* AV-Test Rates Over 40 Android Antivirus Products

“PCMag has long relied on test results from AV-Test.org and others to help identify the best PC antivirus products, especially dynamic whole-product tests. A report released today extends AV-Test’s reach into the Android antivirus market, with over 40 products tested.” Read more..

I found it an interesting read, and humbly suggest that (if you are interested in such things) doing more than glancing at the charts may be worth your time.

Again.. a busy beaver here. I hope I will get a chance to come back and post more.. I did want to talk with you about a $35 computer I only recently learned about (the “Raspberry Pi“)…

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In other (security) news: Anonymous hacker-turned-informant helps feds arrest five

“One of the most visible members of Anonymous and LulzSec is a snitch.

His name is Hector Monsegur, a 28-year-old living in the housing projects on New York’s Lower East Side. But to most people, he’s Sabu, one of the major mouthpieces of the Anonymous movement who was responsible, according to authorities, for a number of high-profile hacks. 

But since he was arrested in early June, he’s been working with the FBI to rat out his fellow Anons, all the while continuing to urge on his Twitter supporters, has recently as last week, to infiltrate police and government agencies around the world.” Click here to continue reading.

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Like free software? Lather Up With Ashampoo Burning Studio 2012 – FREE This Friday

“If you are thinking that AShampoo is a head lathering treatement; think again! AShampoo is one of the leading Internet-based companies worldwide in the field of software development, sales and web portal sites. I have used many of AShampoo’s Software Products for years (most of them through FREE offers).  I especially like their disc burning” […] Read more..

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Today’s quote: “Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.”  ~ Ralph Marston

Have a great day, everybody!

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Sex Sex Sex and More Sex. And, Teens.

Folk’s, every now and again I come across an article on the Web that I feel my readers should see.

Sexting – A Real Problem or An Overreaction?

“According to sexologists, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, a common denominator amongst humans is the degree to which they think of sex…

Sex and tech, it seems, have come together, (the pun is not intended), and that has generated a Pandora’s box of problems and issues that need to be resolved socially, legally, and I suspect for some; morally…

One of these  problematic issues, is the issue of sex, tech and teens; more precisely – teenaged sexting.”
Please click here to read this terrific article. (It will open in a new tab.) Since here in the US, teens are being arrested for sexting under Pedophile Laws…

Today’s free link(s):
For the media’s spin, watch GMA — Let’s Talk About Sexting.
Teens caught ‘sexting’ face porn charges — USA Today.

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$1 Million Reward Offered

As so often happens when the Powers that establish Law and Order fail to protect us, folks take matters into their own hands. It’s only natural, I think.

One doesn’t really need to study, or be particularly tech savvy to know that there really isn’t enough being done to prevent cybercrime.

And, I think we understand that there are aspects to this *new* “shadow economy” that make it very difficult, if not impossible, for the Powers That Be to be effective, should they even try to do something about cybercrime.

The other day, when a person called me (at Aplus Computer Aid) for my help “to make these porno popups go away”, and I had to tell them that they had been tricked into installing a rogue antivirus.. and explained all the implications.. they were somewhat stunned, and muttered, “I’d like to find the guy who did this to me..”
His was a typical reaction.

(For more on rogues, and to see an instructional video, please see my article, Scare Tactics.)

Almost everyday, someone asks me, “what is being done about this?”, and I tell them the truth; basically, nothing.
How would you find the guy? And when/if you did track him down, in the Ukraine, or China, or Bangladesh, or Peru.. how would you prosecute him?

I am pleased to report that cybercrime is being taken more seriously by the Powers, and the laws are changing. International cooperation is starting to happen. But that didn’t stop an estimated $105 Billion dollar loss last year.
BILLION.
$105.
(Hey, that’s what insurance is for.. right?)

But let’s get back to today’s title, shall we? I just read that recently a company had received a blackmail threat:
“St. Louis-based Express Scripts disclosed last week it received an anonymous letter that included the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, prescription information of 75 members. The writer or writers threatened to release millions more of similar records if the business failed to pay an unspecified sum of money.”

Cyber-extortion.

After following proper procedures (such as notifying law enforcement), and looking at all their options, a new — and I hope effective — strategy was decided upon. This company has decided to offer a $1 million reward for information leading to the conviction of these extortionists.

They’ve posted a bounty.

History has shown that where’s there’s a bounty, there’s going to be bounty hunters.. and so I hope that this is just the first such offer of reward. Somebody needs to go after these guys, before they make the Internet so unsafe it’s unusable (and at the present rate, that’ll be next year).

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