Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence .... is the book worth the risk?

I came across this Free eBook: How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence in 10 Minutes a Day and thought it would be great to get. When I clicked on the link, I was presented with a form requesting that all fields be completed including my phone number business information. Because of the recent spate of successful cyber attacks against businesses and governments lately, I immediately checked if the page was encrypted or not.

2010 CanTax income tax software from CCH - the worst tax software ever!!!

I have been doing personal income tax preparation ever since taking H&R Block's income tax course in the fall of 1988 and worked for H&R Block during the tax season in 1989. Back then I prepared taxes by hand using the tax forms, provided by Revenue Canada, and a pencil. The pencil was necessary as it is easy to erase a mistake when it is written lead.

W5: Investigating Canada's big cyber security problem

W5's segment on Investigating Canada's big cyber security problem only highlights the tip of the iceberg. In my articles on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Google vs China - Googles response to attacks by China, Friday, January 15, 2010 Internet Explorer Flaw Implicated in Chinese Attacks and Monday, February 22, 2010 Technology Review: Corporations, agencies infiltrated by 'botnet' I provided my insight into how computer security breaches may be easily avoided - DO NOT USE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.

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.