EFTPS Phishing Scam Targets Tax Payers
A new phishing scam is on the rise and is targeting well-meaning people just trying to get right with the IRS. According to McAfee, the scam targets individuals using the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) to pay their taxes. This system has been in place since 1996 and was established by the U.S. Department of [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 6-4-2010
Smokescreen Brings Flash to the iPhone/iPad…Kinda Smokescreen is a new open-source project that makes it possible to do Flash without the Flash plug-in. It works by converting the Flash SWF file into Javascript/HTML5 on-the-fly. This means that you can view Flash content on devices that otherwise don’t support it, like the iPhone and iPad. Because [...]
Read MoreGmail Now Detects Suspicious Login Activity
Today, Google has introduced a new feature that should help you defend yourself against malicious attacks. It will notify you when they detect suspicious login activity on your account. Since 2008, Google has provided information about exactly which IP’s your account has been accessed from, which are currently logged in, and gives you the option [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 3-12-2010
Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere FourWhere is a mashup of Foursquare and Google Maps that provides a visual representation of venues overlayed on a map. Clicking a venue shows you recent checkins and comments. The interface is a little weird, but you should be able to figure things out from the right-click menu. Created [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 2-5-2010
Twitter.com Gets Hovercards (finally) Twitter seems to be getting serious about making the Twitter.com interface more useful to users. Following the complete redesign they did a while back, addition of lists, and new retweet feature, they have now added Hovercards. If you’ve used FriendFeed, Seesmic desktop, Hootsuite, and just about any Twitter client or social [...]
Read MoreTech Week In Review: Facebook API and Desktop, Swine Flu, 4Chan, and Phishing
Facebook API First, Facebook starts copying features from FriendFeed and Twitter. Now, they have decided that copying features isn’t enough to stay on top and they’ve decided to open up their API to developers. The only problem there is that Facebook isn’t as open as we first thought. It’s so-called open API is just a [...]
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