Social Media Security

How secure do you think your website habits are? If you were prompted with a virus, do you think you’d catch it? I recently had the pleasure to listen to Tom Eston from Social Media Security on the top 5 social media threats. You can download a quick sheet to keep you protected on the majority of social media sites. What are the top 5?

Top 5 Social Media Threats:
1. Cyber bullying
2. Vulnerabilities in Applications
3. Spear phishing and SPAM
4. Collection of Personal Data
5. Evil Twin Attacks

http://www.socialmediasecurity.com

Ford’s Driving Skills Test

Ford has website that highlights how to safely drive behind the wheel. The site is divided into separate sections for students, parents and educators. If you are looking for a perfect site for your teen to start learning how to drive, then check out these online interactive exercises.

https://www.drivingskillsforlife.com/

Google Conflict of Interest?

Google seems to keep gobbling up services, but what does this mean to your search results? Are they constantly pointing you back to Google based products? Is Google just one big cycle pointing back at Google? Back in the day, Google’s mission was to scour websites and report back to you the most popular websites. However if they own all the most popular websites, is this a conflict of interest? It seems that in the end the information overload is mirage because it’s not pointing back to various sources of information just one. Is this good or bad? I am not sure.

Imgur for you and me

I found this the other day stumbling around the net. It’s a simple image sharer. Upload an image, forward the link or just search through the image gallery.

http://imgur.com/gallery/

Have you tried .tel?

Have you tried .tel? It’s a domain address that keeps all your contact information is one place. The average cost is $34.99 a year. The concept of this project is that instead of remembering your friends phone number, just remember their .tel address. I believe .tel was created to compete with .mobi domain extension and it may just have some merit. As long as easy to remember names are available the .tel domain will last, but as soon as it gets as crowded as .com, the party’s over.

http://telnic.org/

Crime Victims

I saw this brochure in the post office the other day and it caught my eye. It said, “Crime Victims Have Rights Too!” If you are a victim of a crime, you have rights and services available to you. Here is a website setup to help you.

http://www.crimevictims.gov/

What Lurks in Companies’ Footnotes?

Footnoted is a website started in 2003 that finds things that companies try to bury in their fine print aka routine SEC filings. If you a legal enthusiast and you enjoy a good laugh, then footnoted will make you chuckle. Over the years it’s discovered that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has expensed $1.1 million on security arrangements. The site also points the lack of information on appointed new members of financial boards like the latest appointee to Traveler’s who also serves on multiple boards even though he’s retired. You can even find out about Krispy Kreme’s donut sludge.

http://www.Footnoted.org

Net Neutrality Still An Issue

“One for all and all for one!”, proclaimed the Three Musketeers. The threat of creating the private net still looms as less companies control your Internet access. At this time your Internet traffic can take you anywhere, but what if the company you’re signed up for only had limited access. What if you could only go to cnn.com, but not msnbc.com?

I like to think of the Net Neutrality as purchasing the premium package from your cable company. You get every channel even HBO, but you pay for it. However in the Private Net, even if you wanted HBO you couldn’t get it. I guess it’s a lot like the NFL Network, some areas just don’t have it. The function of the net is that it lets you roam freely across it, however the landscape is changing.

How do you feel about making the net limited?

Useless Domain Knowledge

Dennis Forbes recently analyzed .com domains and discovered the letter “s” is most common starting letter. He believes “s” is most common letter because it first letter of the word sex. 99.9% of the two letter domains are taken. 99% of the three letter domains are taken. 80% of the four letter domains are taken, while 25% of the five letter domains are taken. Random thought: Shouldn’t there be a domain census every 10 years?

http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/

Free Wireless Internet Access

Wikipedia defines a Municipal Wireless Network as, “the concept of turning an entire city into a Wireless Access Zone (WAZ), with the ultimate goal of making wireless access to the Internet a universal service.” Only a handful of cities in the United States have created free wireless internet access hubs due to cost and logistics. The price tag on the defunct San Franciso wireless network was projected at $405 million. The projected five-year saturation point was predicted to be much higher than the current totals as we head into 2010.

The internet has come so far in five years, however free wireless access lags behind. Perhaps the emergence of smart phones, mobile communications and 3G networks is making up the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_wireless_network