CIO: How to Network: 12 Tips for Shy People

http://www.cio.com/article/164300/How_to_Network_12_Tips_for_Shy_People

Good advice!

CIO: Personal Branding Really Is The Key to Finding a New Job

http://advice.cio.com/meridith_levinson/personal_branding_really_is_the_key_to_finding_a_new_job?source=rss_Blogs_and_Discussion_All

CNet: Bill (S.773) would give president emergency control of Internet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

I find this very disturbing!

WSJ: How Facebook Ruins Friendships

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204660604574370450465849142.html

IE8 outperforms competing browsers in malware protection — again

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4072&tag=nl.e539

Top 8 Social Media Security Threats

http://information-security-resources.com/2009/08/17/top-8-social-media-security-threats/

Sequoia e-voting machine commandeered by clever attack

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/sequoia_evoting_machine_felled/

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…

CIO: Facebook unfairly blocking hundreds of customers

http://advice.cio.com/facebook_unfairly_blocking_hundreds_of_customers

I haven’t been blocked yet, but have warned several times for the very thing this article talks about.

Apple finally patches six-month-old Java bugs

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134442&source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2009-06-17

I post this  for those of you diehard Mac fans (you know who you are) that think Mac is the pinnacle of security.  It’s not. They have many (32 vulnerabilities fixed by this patch) issues as well.  The issues are just not as well known or publicized, and since the Mac audience is SO much smaller than the Windows audience, its not nearly as attractive to hackers, Phishers and identity thieves (fighting the urge to say OH MY!). 

No matter what OS and hardware you use, it’s subject to attack and you MUST take security seriously!