A Job Applicant? Nope, It's A Malware Attack - my comments

In the article "A Job Applicant? Nope, It's A Malware Attack" businesses may avoid the costs and headaches associated with the security issues of Microsoft products, especially Windows security issues, by using open source software and Linux. For true security, the use of x64 (64 bit) Linux is essential. There are many distributions of Linux. Each are developed for specific environments, i.e. business, home, pleasure, multimedia, development, entertainment etc.

When an encrypted login is not secure - the security is broken

While attempting to login to your site via https://www.cch.ca/MyAccount/login.aspx I noticed the encryption is broken. Further investigation revealed a stylesheets and a number of scripts that are hosted on Google that are not encrypted. As a company that claims to be concerned with security why are CSS and JS files hosted by Google needed on your login page? Why do you want to give your users credentials to the world's most powerful search engine. I certainly do not want my CCH username and password showing up in Google's search results.

New Internet Explorer vulnerability affecting all versions of IE

The article New Internet Explorer vulnerability affecting all versions of IE goes to show Microsoft still has not learned from it's past mistakes. Although Internet Explorer 7 and 8 are based on Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and 2.0 respectively, they still manage to inject the original Microsoft security issues into them.

10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Page Following

The article 10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Page Following, by Ching Ya, is very informative and should work with any web site. The main principals are entice, engage, and reward.

failure notice - How the Saudi handle email abuse by their users

The Saudi has a really stupid way of handling spamming by their email users - handle all complaints as spam and reject them. Recently we created a few new email accounts to handle our future online marketing plans. These email accounts have never been used or provided to the public but we have been receiving emails from accounting@becometheboss.net which we never created and does not exist.

Technology Review: Augmented Reality Apps For Your Cell Phone

Technology Review´s article Augmented Reality Apps For Your Cell Phone is an interesting read as it provides examples on how Augmented Reality, or AR, is being used now.

Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty - an interesting read

Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty is an interesting article on how location based services may be used to promote your products and services. However, the article did not mention Google's AdWords, AdSense, Friend Connect or Facebook or Twitter.

Get the latest news from Canada Business, Canada Revenue Agency's Media Room and GST/HST Harmonization

BecomeTheBoss.net has been moved to new servers run by NetFirms.ca and has been updated. The new location is www.becomethebossonline.ca. With the latest update a new section has been added - Government Of Canada RSS Feeds - where you will find the latest news Feeds from Canada Business and Canada Revenue Agency's Media Room and GST/HST Harmonization. Although only the five latest articles are displayed from each feed, many more articles are available from each feed's web site.

Google eyes more government deals for online apps

The article "Google eyes more government deals for online apps" is good news for Google share holders, open source advocates and the American people. It is also bad news for Microsoft, cyber-terrorists and the Department of Homeland Security's IT department.

Blogging with Zemanta

This my first post using Zemanta as a plug-in.Unfortunately, Google has redesigned the Blogger interface to put the accessories tools below the text input interface. This means I do not see the suggestions that Zemanta is offering unless I scroll down the page which results in me not being able to see what I am typing. However, this is just a minor inconvenience.