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Twitter Users targeted in attack

Fortunately, it's limited to a small group of people who would intentionally try to download a link for porn, and try to launch the application.

Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks. A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.

Read more on the BBC

Posted at 10:49AM Aug 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Communicate  |  Comments[0]

Belkin: Powerline Networking Adapters

If your place is a long little shoebox, with twists and turns that your wireless router can't get around, you might want to check this out....   (This is what my ISP promised, never delivered)

Plug your connection into this POWERLINE ADAPTER (or choose from others), and plug it into the wall.... then the other into your device... check it:

Belkin introduced a new line of Powerline Networking Adapters that allows you to reliably transmit content from your Internet directly to your home theater system and computer through the wires in your home.

For areas in a home that are hard to reach by wireless connections, Powerline is the most reliable solution for providing secure Internet connectivity to these remote areas. [Read More]

Posted at 08:00AM Aug 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Produce  |  Comments[0]

Belkin has cool laptop options

$20 could save your computer.... true story.

My friend Shannon cooks computers.  She's on her second laptop this year.  It's not that she types with them on the stove, or that she puts a heating pad under her computer....  Macbook Pro 17" machines get hot, and Shannon works hard - and long hours push that heat sync...
[Read More]

Posted at 12:00AM Aug 05, 2008 by ko maruyama in Enhance  |  Comments[0]