Weekend Stories

Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets Google revealing too much again. These guys know more than the NSA. ______________________________ Facebook Boosts Security After Dual Phishing Attacks More reasons to just say no to the Internet. It's bad out there, like the wild west. If you're not careful, you will be hacked. Even if you are careful, you're likely to be hacked. Keep your anti-virus updated, and use a firewall and a router. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you should turn your computer off now. :) Seriously, be careful. You should also change your passwords every so often. Don't use anything that resembles a real word or words. My recommendation is to create really weird stuff, like 3&dfVl@jK. You're better off doing that and writing it down somewhere than using, mypassword. Here's a safe site to generate random passwords: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm. A trick is to create a regular notepad text file with your passwords and use copy and paste to enter into a site. Name the text file something strange and not obvious. It sounds unsafe, but it actually can be safer than typing in a password because of keyloggers. This is a systemic problem and the bad guys are winning. ______________________________ US flu tally jumps to 241 as labs catch up Stock market should be up on this news. Investors like despair outside of the financial market.