How to Make Mobile Communication Safe

In our days people rely on mobile devices to access the web, look for different information and keep in touch with family and friends. That’s why it is so important to know how to behave online, how to manage your Internet reputations and how to put your personal safety on the first place when communicating on a mobile device.

First of all, think twice before sharing a thought or a picture. Think about your colleagues, grandmother, or teacher receiving them. Are you sure that what you’re sharing is suitable for anyone to see? Then it is highly recommended to protect your personal data. So, when you send something like emails, messages, pictures or instant messages to someone who isn’t a trusted friend or a member of your family, never disclose any personal data that may be used either to figure out your physical location or to exploit you.

It is also recommended to control negativity and think twice about who deserves to communicate with and who doesn’t. A number of Internet services allow you to block visitors. In case you have received any abusive or harassing messages on the Internet, you should report the abuse where and when you saw it.

Another advice is to use filters. For example, a few browsers have filters that help keep inappropriate material out of your search results. Although there are no filters in the world that are able to guarantee you 100% removal of unwanted content, they can still make a great difference to keeping inappropriate material out of your search results.
When it comes to downloading things, most of the troubles with security begin. Educated netizens will never download software from unknown and unchecked sources. If you download applications from 3rd parties, you should make sure they are only from developers you trust. Before clicking “I agree” and installing, read their terms of service and privacy policies carefully in order to fully understand what permissions you are giving the developers when downloading their software.

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Norton Overestimated Cyber Crime Figures

Norton, the consumer division of Symantec, was noticed to overestimate some online security figures. For example, for the last month the net saw the stories that claimed digital crimes costs society $388 billion per year. These figures are tagged onto to stories about cyber crimes.

These figures can be found in a Norton survey report asking around 20,000 people in two dozen countries about their experience with digital crime. The survey asked the respondents to evaluate both direct and indirect losses they think were caused by cyber crime.

Norton concluded that punters lost $114 billion per year, including consumer losses that were reimbursed – the most widespread case of such kind of crime is credit card fraud. However, the company seemed to fudge things a little: for example, it decided that online harassment was also a cyber crime, as well as being approached on the Internet by sexual predators. Moreover, the term “fraud” was defined so widely that it would have covered all credit card fraud, as the word “online” can’t even be found in the definition.

Nevertheless, this wasn’t enough for Norton, who firmly decided to make the statistics appear worse by calculating how much the cyber crime experiences in question were worth including “time lost”. And this last figure alone more than doubled the direct losses, as it was calculated to be $274 billion.

The media couldn’t miss the fact that even with the faulty reasoning something strange is happening with the numbers. Norton took the UN figures for the trade in heroin, cocaine and marijuana, reasoning that it was worth $411 billion a year. Meanwhile, if you add the $114 billion for direct Internet crime losses to the $274 billion for “time lost”, you’ll end up with a figure pretty close to the drug sales! In other words, Norton claimed that online crime is close to all global drug trafficking. The company is therefore boosting figures with “time lost” money, which in reality never existed, thus meaning that cyber crime is as bad as an industry based on real money!

Moreover, the experts found out that Norton made a press release two years ago, claiming that online crime eclipsed the global drug trade, and it seems that this time it reiterates the same, simply trying to back it up with numbers. As for the company itself, Norton explained that discrepancies can be explained by huge amount of unreported crime. At the same time, they insist that the company is confident it provides a valid representation of the current state of consumer online crime.

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Russian Hacker Made $3,000,000 with Botnet

According to the latest media reports, it has been recently uncovered how far one of the online criminal’s reach went. An individual in his 20s, somewhere in the Russian Federation, used a bunch of criminal toolkits to help him earn money, which resulted in attacking more than 90 countries and stealing $3.2 million in only six months.

The security experts believe that Soldier employed a network of money mules, as well as had an accomplice presumably residing in the states. Overall, since this past January, the hacker has been pocketing $17,000 per day. This is what threat researcher Loucif Kharouni pointed out in his research, describing the antics of some Russian hacker known online as Soldier. The hacker was using SpyEye and ZeuS binaries and blackhat SEO in his illegal activity across the Internet. He allegedly traded in traffic with a number of other hackers online, employing various malware to extract money from multiple accounts (most of them located in the United States) and steal security credentials. The most interesting part of this story is that it wasn’t just ordinary people’s dodgy attachments that had been hit by the malware – we are talking about high security organizations and American corporations being among those hit.

All in all, the hacker has successfully infected over 25,000 systems from April to June, which may appear good for Microsoft’s push in making users to upgrade, since most of the victims used Windows XP on their computers. However, around 4,500 Windows 7 machines also took the hit, according to the results of the study. Currently the investigation is still open, with experts trying to find out how they could notify victims.

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Twitter Will Allow Advertising in Timeline

The worldwide-known micro-blogging service Twitter will now let brands to advertise in users’ timelines, even if the users don’t follow the advertiser.

Back in July this year, Twitter introduced promoted tweets as its unique form of advertising in users’ timelines. The users of the service could see some sponsored messages in their timelines, but all those messages were from brands and outfits they already followed. Earlier, promoted tweets could only be seen in search results or on the top of the Twitter trends lists. However, according to the new announced system, the users of the service are now able to be served advertisements from brands in their personal timelines, regardless of whether they even follow them or not.

Apparently, this will be the first time that Twitter users are exposed to advertisements in their timelines from the companies they don’t even follow. The company’s representative claimed that it would make such feature available to a single-digit percentage of its global user base. Moreover, of that group, Twitter promised only to show promoted tweets to users from advertisers that are relevant to their interests. The company explained it is carefully investigating how users respond to such tweets, and based on that response, it would roll this capability out to an expanded audience in the nearest future.

Of course, the consumers have a right to choose. Twitter users will be able to remove the advertisement, also called “timely tweet”, from their timelines with a single click. The local media report that Disney, Pepsi and Xbox will be the first clients of Twitter, which advertisements will be presented to the consumers while rolling out the next stage of this company’s advertising program.

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Facebook Patented Tracking Method

Although the social networking service Facebook has previously denied that it was interested in what its members do on other online locations, the news is that some evidence has been found that Facebook had developed its own technology to do just that.

One of the Australian bloggers has found a patent that was dated October 2011. According to the information the patent contained, Facebook has described there a method to monitor information about the activities of the social network’s members while on another domain.
The blogger explained that tracking cookies are able to monitor Facebook users whenever they surf any online services having an integrated Facebook “like” button.

One of the Illinois residents has already filed a lawsuit over such tracking on behalf of Facebook users in the United States, so he is currently seeking class action status. As for the most popular social network in the world, it previously claimed that cookies were tracking users by mistake. However, the latest post of the plaintiffs proved that Facebook hasn’t turned the tracking off. Instead, it patented it!

The representatives of Facebook maintain the official line that tracking cookies have only been installed when the registered members accessed Facebook.com. However, the opponents revealed that the cookies were set by all websites containing Facebook widgets. Moreover, it was found out that one of the tracking cookies monitors the users’ activity even if they had never been to the Facebook website at all, and even if they have never clicked a “like” or “share” button.

This is not the first time the cookie was found out: it was disabled after an outcry in The Wall Street Journal earlier in 2011, but later it has quietly returned. The patent, bearing the catchy title “Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain”, is all about tracking Facebook members outside of Facebook.com domain. The patent describes maintaining a “profile” of the users while they are moving around the Internet, as well as logging the actions taken on the 3rd-party domains.

In response, a spokesman for Facebook claimed that the patent wasn’t intended to track those users who had logged out from the social networking site. Facebook has also pointed out that the idea in question has only been patented, but hasn’t been used yet.

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Google Adds Offline Access to Gmail in Chrome

Chrome browser users will be able to access Gmail when they're not connected to the Internet starting Wednesday and will gain similar offline capabilities for Docs and Calendar in the coming week, the company announced on Wednesday. Users will need to install individual offline-access applications from the Chrome Web Store to add these capabilities to their browser. The Gmail application is called Gmail Offline and is based on the Gmail application for tablets, which works both with and without Internet access. Docs and Calendar will each have its own offline-access application on the Chrome Web Store.

The offline capabilities will become available both for individuals who use Gmail, Docs and Calendar, as well as for organizations who use them as part of the Google Apps collaboration and communication suite in workplaces and educational institutions. Once installed, these offline applications will create an icon in the Chrome browser interface for launching them when users aren't online.

The Gmail application will have its own user interface separate from the Gmail web interface, while the Docs and Calendar applications will trigger their Web application's interface and work in the background. In all three cases, users will get access to a subset of the Web applications' features. For example, in Docs it will be possible to view documents and spreadsheets, but not yet edit those documents. In Calendar, users will be able to view events and RSVP to appointments.

 Previously, Google provided offline access to these applications via its Gears browser plug-in, but the company stopped developing it last year. It has been possible to use Gmail and Calendar offline through Gears in Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6, but not Docs. Google's focus is on HTML5 for providing offline access for its Web applications. The company plans to provide offline support to more of its applications beyond Gmail, Docs and Calendar, as well as make offline capabilities available in other browsers.

 "While Google tells us that the number of commercial Gmail users impacted by the removal of offline capabilities for Chrome was very small, we certainly know of large Gmail customers that were dismayed by the move," said Gartner analyst Matt Cain via e-mail. "Restoration of offline capabilities for Chrome will certainly be welcomed by businesses relying on Gmail. Restoration of offline capabilities for all browsers would be even more welcome," he added.

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United States of Android

Where You Are From - Android or iOS or Blackberry State?

From a July report, mobile phone advertising and marketing firm Jumptap unveiled a colorcoded map, titled United States of Android os, displaying the geographic mobile make-up of the United states of america. Yellow-colored states tend to be covered with Google android lovers and blue-colored states by iOS enthusiasts.

Blackberry mobile phones is established in the small amount of gray-shaded sates. As you can observe, Google android patriots are accumulated in Southern and South west states, whilst iOS loyalists are put collectively in Northeastern as well as Middle west states. Particularly, Ca, Tx and Fl over-index with Google android use and states within New England and also the Middle west over-index with regard to iOS usage, based on the survey. With Ca skewing towards Google android use, the organization made a decision to additional breakout mobile predilections within the state city-by-city. We must notice, as Jumptap does, that amounts don' signify share of the market or even delivery amounts, but rather reveal the information from the eighty three mil customers around the company's network.

Jumptap's set of state-by-state phone utilizationadditionally exposedthat in their particularnetwork, Android mobile phonerules with a thirty-eight % share of the market, trailed tightly by iOS with thirty-three% and alsoBlackberry with twenty two %. The data additionally display that iOS users are apt to have greater ad click-through rates compared to customers of other smartphones on the market (.seventy eight % for iOS, instead of .forty seven or .thirty-six percent for Google android or Blackberry). I have an interest to find out exactly how these details broke lower inside a few of the more populated, technophilic states such as Ca and Ny. Does it differ place to place? Do Los angeles citizens have a tendency towards iOS, whilst San Franciscans favor Google android? I'd also love to observe this particular overlaid with details about the dominating company in that region. Does Google android perform best in locations with solid Verizon wireless coverage, for instance.

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How To Earn Money Online Without Investments

Most ofthe time we all continue to keep talking about the online part-time income generating methods using your websites or blogging site. It’s factual that, for greater internet business as well as long-term online revenue planning, we should have got web site along with targeted traffic on there. However, there are lots of people today on the internet who would like to make several part-time earnings from online without having web-site, for the reason that the issue of expense regarding domain brand as well as website hosting, or even due to deficiency of adequate techie knowledge on web hosting along with handling their own personal websites. Therefore, in this post I am about to discuss a few methods for those people who are actually want to make money on the internet without having google adsense or websites.

• Affiliate marketing
• Google Adsense
• Content writing
• Freelance job

Affiliate marketing without having websites:

Probably the most important things in affiliate marketing online is always to get to the target audience on the internet to market affiliated product or service. This can be carried out in in whatever way, by means of e-mail marketing campaign or social media marketing system, or marketing with articles in free article directory sites. If you're sufficiently good in social networking, you've large list of good friends as well as follower, you'll be ready to here internet affiliate marketing to make online earnings without necessity of website and blogsite.

Earn with Google Adsense without having websites:

Definitely, to publish advertisements of Adsense you'll want websites, however here' 'm discussing the free of charge substitute of paid web site. You might opt for blogger services such as blogger.com, wp or may well build website with cheap domain from namecheap.com (starts from $2) and totally free web hosting from numerous web hosting service provider. When you begin earning, you may be thinking to transfer your website or blogging site to a professional paid web hosting.

Earn with article writing without having websites:

If you're truly best in web content writing or re-writing, you possibly can make dollars on the internet working on this particular thing. You will find websites such as squidoo.com, hubpages.com, that will permit you to build the web pages with your own personal posting and that can make money from the income earned using advertisements in your webpages. You can even try your fortune in free lance writing, presently there are massive necessity of articles writers these days. Make your free accounts in free lance websites and begin bidding upon articles or article writing assignments.

Earn money with free-lance job:

You can make dollars just for anything that you can do on the internet. If you're very good in English and also article writing, do the job as a free-lance article writer, if you're adequate in computer programming ability, software areas, or other IT associated areas, you could start getting careers in free lance website to earn part-time working at home. The majority of the work require merely around an hour or so to finish, you will observe exactly how simple to earn on the internet with free lance job if you start out bidding and obtaining job. Keep in mind that, you have to be professional or adequate at least to have a job in the category you need.

Certainly , there tend to be plenty of choices to make dollars on the internet with or without having websites, with or without having google adsense and many others… Please read on the blog and keep up-to-date with income generating tips.

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