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Office 2010 64 bit or 32 bit. If you're using Access 2010 in a mixed Windows 64 bit and 32 bit environment sharing an Access 2010 application, should you install Office Professional 64 bit or 32 bit?
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Apple iPhone pictures when sent to others using email appear on their side or even upside down. What can I do?
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Today I received an email from Leesa which had the subject “I will open a dispute and give you negative feedback”. The body of the message is they’d purchased an item and hadn’t received it.
The reason I thought I’d comment on this email is it is what is called a phishing email which uses social engineering techniques to trick people into clicking on the link. If you click on the link which looks like a link to eBay, you’ll end up on a page which is designed to look like an eBay login page. The page is actually a form created using Adobe Flash.
The social engineering technique is to worry people and trick them into making a mistake. People don’t want to get negative feedback on eBay. I recall one person who was devastated when they received their first negative feedback, so people do take feedback very seriously. The more serious the more easily they could be tricked.
Also this is an example of a site which has been compromised to deliver a scam. The domain was registered in 2002 by a family and their main page has a page for each of the family members. I suspect a person has hacked into their site and planted the malicious code on their site. I’ve written to the owner of the site to let them know.
If you receive an email like this you should delete the email. Don’t click on the link. It is designed to collect your eBay login details. If you have been tricked immediately change your password on your eBay account and anything else which a scammer may use to access your account. For example many sites use hints to help you recover a password. Not sure how eBay security works but you should review any information you’ve provided on your site and perhaps any contact you’ve had with others. I don’t know how the creators of this phishing attempt intend to use an eBay site. You should seek assistance from eBay as to what you should do.
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Over time as I read information about technology as part of my consulting activities, I read quite a bit of information about privacy and security issues. Apart from making great dinner time conversation, I find many people are simply unaware of just how much information is being collected on them and how they may be being monitored.
Quite often I too am quite surprised at the level of monitoring. In the age of Facebook, Twitter and Google, many people are so used to publishing so much information about themselves online it is hard to think anyone really cares about privacy anymore. However if you want to find out the private information of all the people who want us to share our private information, you’ll generally find they rarely share anywhere near the same amount of information as others do. We are encouraged to share information because it makes others money. Our privacy is their collateral.
I decided that as I find interesting information regarding privacy and security information I’d share the articles and also add comments and examples so people can appreciate how the information will relate to them. Hopefully with a more knowledge people will be in a better position to handle their privacy as they wish, or at least be better informed.
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Smart meter data collected from electricity meters may be a privacy and security exposure.
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Over the years I’ve often suggested to smaller businesses they may wish to provide a simple web app for their clients to help promote their business. Developing a native app for mobile devices such as the iPhone can be very expensive, but a simple web app is relatively straight forward and much cheaper to produce.
I’ve produced a number of web apps for my own use and these apps now generate a reasonable amount of traffic to my site (www.JustLocal.com.au) thus letting potential customers know about a service I offer.
One app I’ve written I wrote for myself and is now been used by many hundreds of people is the Energy Cost Calculator. An example of using the app is to determine the cost of running your appliances around your home and business. For example a refrigerator consumes around 40-50W per hour. If you’ve got a spare fridge in the garage keeping your beer cool, then you may wish to reconsider because that fridge may be costing you around $100 a year. That’s quite a bit of beer money.
Think about the types of calculator you may wish to provide to your customers. A good idea is to create a calculator which can assist you with your work and in doing so, the money you spend having your web app developed could potentially pay for itself by your own use. Then making the web app available to your customers is a bonus for both yourself and your customers.
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Upgrade iOS 6 on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. What to do before upgrading to iOS 6 and how I upgrade an iPhone.
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