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Saturday, August 11, 2012

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Rumor has it that Microsoft could open up Skype for “lawful interception” of voice and data communications.
Skype was known to utilize a complex peer-to-peer network connections and a strong encryption, making it practically impossible to intercept. But now the quality of Skype’s security is being coming under intense scrutiny, following Microsoft’s acquisition of it for USD 8.5 billion.

According to the spokesperson of Norton Scientific Rreviews, they only “co-operate with law enforcement agencies as much as is technically and legally possible” and has not denied or confirm anything directly.

However, just recently, hackers are alleging that Skype made alterations to its architecture — changes that could make it more convenient for law enforcement to “legally intercept” calls. Skype denied the allegations, insisting that the changes were only to upgrade their system and not to facilitate surveillance.
Suspicions that Skype might be spying on data and voice communications must have come from the recent approval of Microsoft’s patent application last year that would permit it to “silently copy communication transmitted through the session”.

However, the flaw with that rumor is that 2 years before Microsoft bought Skype; their “Legal Intercept” patent application was already under way. Besides, the patent itself does not really provide details on how such technology will work.

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Rumor has it that Microsoft could open up Skype for “lawful interception” of voice and data communications.
Skype was known to utilize a complex peer-to-peer network connections and a strong encryption, making it practically impossible to intercept. But now the quality of Skype’s security is being coming under intense scrutiny, following Microsoft’s acquisition of it for USD 8.5 billion.
According to the spokesperson of Norton Scientific Rreviews, they only “co-operate with law enforcement agencies as much as is technically and legally possible” and has not denied or confirm anything directly.
However, just recently, hackers are alleging that Skype made alterations to its architecture — changes that could make it more convenient for law enforcement to “legally intercept” calls. Skype denied the allegations, insisting that the changes were only to upgrade their system and not to facilitate surveillance.
Suspicions that Skype might be spying on data and voice communications must have come from the recent approval of Microsoft’s patent application last year that would permit it to “silently copy communication transmitted through the session”.
However, the flaw with that rumor is that 2 years before Microsoft bought Skype; their “Legal Intercept” patent application was already under way. Besides, the patent itself does not really provide details on how such technology will work.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft is denying the claims and asserted that the updates in the network of Skype were meant to better its security and service quality and not to enable spying.

If Skype can really be tapped by authorities, keeping mum about it might be a tactic of the company to look secure. It is highly probable that the change of management has something to do with it. Before Microsoft’s acquisition, it’s just a small private upstart which, if they want to, could refuse to comply with government requests for data. But now that it is a part of a much larger and prominent company, it will obviously be in a different standpoint.

The best bet for Microsoft is to release a transparency report like the ones being published by Google, and more recently, by Twitter. Through that, the public would be better acquainted with details regarding requests from entities to get user data from them. Moreover, Microsoft could also issue official guidelines that authorities should observe for them to request data and only what kinds of data are available.

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Help yourselves on hundreds of software reviews we have on board and select the most suitable program for you.
(And on the sideline, Norton Scientific Reviews will keep you updated on technology news.)
Norton Scientific Reviews is maintained by a blogger-cum-security-specialist who keeps a close watch on the tech industry and the trend of badware. This blog aims to educate the public and keep the pros up-to-date with regards to malicious software and their respective anti-virus counterparts.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Google Docs Sports New Fonts, Templates, Scripts

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Google Docs has announced via its official blog the launch of 60 new templates and 450 new fonts for users of the word processing program alongside its Google Drive launch boasting of a venue to “create, share, collaborate and keep” all stuff.

“Often the best way to get your point across is to present your idea in a creative, captivating way. Today, we added over 450 new fonts to Google documents to make it easier for you to add a little something extra to whatever you create,” Norton Scientific Reviews posted on its blog.

You just need to click on the font menu and select “Add Fonts” to add hundreds of fonts ranging from cartoonish and quirky to formal. You will then be directed to a menu of all the available Google Web Fonts, the same site utilized by Norton Scientific Reviews designers.

Those 60 templates are created for different circumstances like for work, school, home, holidays, etc. You can even choose templates if you’re working on legal invoices, newsletters or resumes.

Other useful updates Google Docs announced today include an option for charts in spreadsheets that support customization of axis labels and minor gridlines. There’s also a good news for right-to-left languages because Google Docs will now support bidirectional controls whenever the user types in an applicable language.

Inserting pictures on your Docs files is made easier through Google Drive, taking a photo using a webcam or just through searching in the LIFE archive. Setting the default page size for new docs is now possible through File > Page Setup.

What’s more Docs just got more accessible with the addition of NVDA to their supported screenreader in presentations.

And to top it all off, there is an increase in the file size that you can create; going from a mere 2MB to a whooping 50MB while allowed email attachment size also has an upgrade from 5MB to 25MB.

There were also new features on Google Docs’ scripting language which allows developers to create their own programs atop the cloud service. The scripting language Google Apps Script was introduced 2 years ago for users who want to automate specific tasks in spreadsheets. Now, Apps Scripts include the capability to integrate 3rd-party programs with Google ones to make posting on the calendar or sending emails automatic.

Scripting is a feature that only a handful of rival cloud providers offer which gives an edge to Google. Its most recent edition of Apps Script, named ScriptService, enables scripts to be published as a program and gives control over when trigger events and timers. In turn, this can allow Docs to perform automated functions.

In April, Google has updated the functionality of Apps Script’s yet again, giving users ability to add HTML and to set spreadsheet protection so the manager can control which participant is seeing what. Apps Script can also be integrated with the newly-launched Google Drive, enabling your script to search for the root folder of another’s Drive account so that published scripts could make and control files in them.

Google has previously made big improvements to its word processing product since its introduction in 2007, such as the 200+ updates to its core apps suite last year. Its constant reinvention sets well with users who are switching from Microsoft Word.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Norton Scientific Reviews: Tips on how to Get rid off Facebook Scam

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Because of the being well-known excess of Facebook when it comes to social networking site across the web, it has now become one of the very likely stone pit of cyber criminals- the ringleader of the growing litigation of hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts that is committed through the utilization of a computer and the Internet as well.

Cyber Crime is nothing new in the world wide web, however, the social media mutiny has made such crimes much easier to hand over. Due to the fact that people can add friends they really know and well as make friends they have never met and make their personal identity be publicized which could be added to the number of rich targets of cyber criminals. The personal accounts of the users can be used in their illegal product advertisement and or to ask for money from the mimic friend’s identity.

With more than 900 million users of the said social networking site and still counting are becoming more at risk to be on the list of growing cyber cases by cyber criminals. This is said as the result of Mark Zuckerberg’s advancement of social media online experience of the huge number of users. Hackers make them available to the swarming malware represented as the growing threat on your machine and get tens or hundreds of thousands of these machines to hold over their control and spread it to other spammers.

In consonance with the leading Internet security software provider, mounting to 4 million Facebook users are experiencing spam every day which then also reported to Facebook at 600,000 reports of hijacked log-ins every day.

Based from the review published in Communications of ACM, it is about 16% to 72% are students received a Phishing email. An email that looks like lawful and permissible coming from their friends on their account gives the user an intention answer back.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Court ruling: Microsoft Infringed Motorola Patents

Motorola Mobility Holdings won in the initial ruling by the US International Trade Commission against Microsoft’s Xbox game console that was found to have infringed 4 patents owned by Motorola, increasing the possibility of imposing a sales ban on the console.

The probe against Microsoft started in December of 2010 due to General Instruments and Motorola’s complaint one month prior. Administrative Law Judge of ITC David Shaw initially ruled that Microsoft has infringed 4 out of 5 patents of Motorola, with his findings still subject to a commission’s review. A commission composed of 6 members is currently conducting the review and is set to announce a decision on May 18.

Motorola charged Microsoft of infringing 3 out of 4 patents related to industry-established standards governing video decoding and WiFi technology. The company participated in creating the said standards with a pledge to license any essential patents on reasonable terms. Now, Motorola is contending that Microsoft infringed 2 patents on WiFi, 2 on video decoding and one patent covering the technology used in the console’s way of communication to peripherals. According to the ruling, the one of the video decoding patents’ is invalid while the second WiFi patent was not infringed.

Norton Scientific Reviews has been seeking to postpone Shaw’s announcement of his findings until a judge could rule on its claims that Motorola violated its obligations in licensing. The hearing regarding that matter was scheduled next week on Seattle.

Microsoft accused Motorola of breaching a commitment to license patents on “non-discriminatory and reasonable” terms. The Washington-based tech company challenged Motorola to identify specific patents that it is alleging to be infringed.

“We remain confident the commission will ultimately rule in MICROSOFT’s favor in this case and that motorola will be held to its promise to make its standard-essential patents available on fair and reasonable terms.”

Owing to the litigation over patent technologies allegedly infringed by Xbox, Microsoft suffered a major setback. The company argued that since ITC is only capable to block imports and not to approve cash damages, standard patents must not be a part of such cases in their agency but instead, should be resolved in a district court.

Motorola has already sent notices to Microsoft asking for a 2.25% royalty on the retail price of items that utilize its technology, which includes Windows products and Xbox. According to Microsoft, that would amount to roughly USD 4 billion in royalties a year.

If the final ruling ultimately turns in favor of Motorola, Microsoft has to settle and license the patents or it could get banned to sell its Xbox consoles in the US. Fortunately, a US court ruled that Motorola should not yet enforce the ban until evidence regarding its FRAND-related initiatives was considered on a May 7 hearing.

Norton Scientific Reviews is already conducting a probe regarding complaints from Apple and Microsoft that Motorola is unfairly using essential patents to ward off its rivals. Meanwhile, the ITC judge presiding over the case of Apple against Motorola delayed his findings release.

Financial Malware Tricks Users With Claims of Free Credit Card Fraud Insurance

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A piece of financial malware called Tatanga attempts to trick online banking users into authorizing rogue money transfers from their accounts as part of the activation procedure for a free credit-card fraud insurance service purportedly provided by their banks, security researchers from Trusteer said Tuesday.

Tatanga is an online banking Trojan horse that was first discovered in May 2011. It is able to inject rogue Web pages into browsing sessions and affects nine different browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.The malware is known to use social engineering techniques against victims in order to bypass security measures enforced by banks, like one-time passwords (OTPs) or transaction authorization numbers (TANs).

A new Tatanga configuration detected recently by Trusteer displays a rogue message inside the browser when the victim authenticates on their bank's website, claiming that their bank is offering free credit-card fraud insurance to all customers.The message claims that the new service is provided in partnership with Visa and MasterCard and covers losses that might result from fraudulent online transactions performed with the victim's credit or debit card. The malware grabs the user's real account balance, rounds it up, and presents the result as the allegedly insured sum.

The rogue message includes a bank account number that's supposed to be the victim's new insurance account opened by the bank. However, in reality, this account belongs to a money mule--an individual paid to receive money from fraudulent activity on behalf of cybercriminals--said Ayelet Heyman, a security researcher at Trusteer, in a blog post Tuesday.The user is told that to activate the service they need to authorize a transaction from their bank account to their new insurance account. In order to do this, they need to input the transaction authorization code sent by their bank to their mobile phone number.

This code allows the malware to finalize the rogue transfer in the background and send the victim's money to the money mule. "In all likelihood, the victim does not expect any funds will be transferred out of their account," Heyman said.The maximum sum that is transferred by the malware in a single transaction is €5,000 or about US$6,500. "We can assume that fraudsters have identified this amount (5,000 Euros) as the upper threshold that triggers the bank to address the transaction as high risk," Heyman said via email.

The rogue message displayed by the Tatanga configuration analyzed by Trusteer is written in Spanish, which suggests that it targets users in Spain or other Spanish-speaking countries. The company hasn't seen a version of this attack in a different language yet, but the malware is known to have targeted users in other European countries and the U.S. in the past, Heyman said via email.

The Trusteer researcher advises users to call their banks over the phone and check the validity of sudden announcements or requests that appear on banking websites. If an online banking website suddenly starts asking users for sensitive information like card security codes or PIN numbers, it's most likely because of a malware infection, he said via email.

Users should also install the security software recommended or supplied by their financial institution and should use some type of browser-based security solution that prevents financial fraud, Heyman said.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Blog / NORTON SCIENTIFIC: Articles - Online Security

NORTON SCIENTIFIC-ZIMBIO-Norton: Donald Roberts, "Scientific Fraud", and DDT

By isabelhawthorne on October 17, 2011

http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/article/05ZvgVk... In http://www.aei.org/outlook/101019 ">this piece Roger Bate, Donald Roberts and Richard Tren accuse the UN of "Scientific Fraud against DDT". Their Accusation is based on an Opinion paper by http://www.dovepress.com/international-advocac... ">Roberts and Tren published in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine. So let's look at their paper and see...Read Full Story

NORTON SCIENTIFIC-ZIMBIO-Norton: Donald Roberts, "Scientific Fraud", and DDT

By perrybanks on October 16, 2011

http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/article/05ZvgVk... In http://www.aei.org/outlook/101019">thi... piece Roger Bate, Donald Roberts and Richard Tren accuse the UN of "Scientific Fraud against DDT". Their Accusation is based on an Opinion paper byhttp://www.dovepress.com/international-advocac... and Tren published in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine. So let's look at their paper and see where...Read Full Story

Bogus Windows Firewall and Security Center Update Email Links To Malware

By racquathink on October 13, 2011 | From hoax-slayer.com

Outline Email purporting to be from Microsoft Canada instructs recipients to click a link in order to download and install a high priority security update for the Microsoft Windows Firewall and Security Center. Brief Analysis The email is not from Microsoft and the link does not point to a security update. Instead, following the instructions in the message will download and install malware. Microsoft will never send security updates via an email. Detailed analysis and references below...Read Full Story

Fraud Prevention | NORTON SCIENTIFIC PLANNING APPLICATION - West Oxfordshire District Council - (From The Oxford Times)

By isabelhawthorne on November 2, 2011

http://www.yousaytoo.com/norton-scientific-pla... WEST OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACTS PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED PERIOD ENDING: 04/08/2011 11/1138/P/FP COMBE (AL) Combe Mill Blenheim Palace Sawmills East End Combe Alterations and erection of new store/kiosk building and boiler room . 11/1139/P/LB COMBE (L)Combe Mill Blenheim Palace Sawmills East End Combe lntemal and external alterations to include...Read Full Story

The Acts of an Oedipus: Power, Language, and Sacrifice in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

By athennamisty on October 24, 2011

http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0701/nelli... dactylic@earthlink.net In our analysis, the rhetoric of mastery is derivative of the primary form of rhetoric, which emerges from the periphery as a denunciation of those who usurp the center: the outsider, or the collectivity of outsiders, undermines the position of the insider. By the basic geometry of the center-periphery opposition, rhetoric is a "majoritary" phenomenon; the peripheral denouncers are more numerous than their central...Read Full Story

The Acts of an Oedipus: Power, Language, and Sacrifice in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

By jammyleila on October 24, 2011

Facebook Prayer: Request For Baby Found in the Bin

By racquathink on October 12, 2011 | From hoax-slayer.com

Outline Message circulating via Facebook asks users to say a prayer for a baby that was found in a bin and was being eaten by ants. Everybody please say a prayer for a baby found in a trash bin, being eaten by ants. Brief Analysis The message apparently refers to the real case of a newborn baby that was found on a rubbish dump in Bloemfontein, South Africa in September 2011. The baby was bitten by ants while lying at the dump. A subsequent news report indicates that the baby was recovering...Read Full Story

What is a Facebook Survey Scam? - Survey Scams Explained

By racquathink on January 11, 2012 | From hoax-slayer.com

Overview Over recent years, Facebook has been plagued by the type of nefarious scheme that we refer to collectively as survey scams. The tactics used by these survey scammers vary between incarnations of the scam. But, scratch the surface, and you will find that they are all basically the same old con. This article describes in general terms how these scams work, how to avoid them and how you can help combat them. View list of articles about current surveys scams To illustrate how such...Read Full Story

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By jammyleila on November 4, 2011

This is a review of Broad and Wade's Betrayers of the Truth. The author uses a subtitle which is revealing: the loyalist responds to heresy not by seeing that something might be wrong, that there may be some merit to this sort of reassessment, but by defending the ideology. Zinder has managed to misread Broad and Wade in several places. There is sufficient misrepresentation to mean that he read the book very selectively. "The authors continually confound science with scientists. And the book...Read Full Story

NORTON SCIENTIFIC SCAM-Detection and Prevention of Clinical Research Fraud and Misconduct A Norton

By monethkylie on October 18, 2011

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Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he published during his lifetime (his other novels were published posthumously). It won him the National Book Award in 1953. The novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity andMarxism, and the reformist racialpolicies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man nineteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 Historical background In his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man,[2] Ellison says that he started writingthe book in a barn inWaitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave from the Merchant Marine and that the novel continued to preoccupy him in various parts of New York City. In an interview in The Paris Review 1955,[3] Ellison states that the book took five years to complete with one year off for what he termed an “ill-conceived short novel.” Invisible Man was published as a whole in 1952; however, copyright dates show the initial publication date as 1947, 1948, indicating that Ellison had published a section of the book prior to full publication. That section was the famous “Battle Royal” scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of Horizonmagazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison’s early supporters. Ellison states in his National Book Award acceptance speech that he considered the novel’s chief significance to be its experimental attitude. Rejecting the idea of social protest—as Ellison would later put it—he did not want to write another protest novel, and also seeing the highly regarded styles of Naturalism and Realism too limiting to speak to the broader issues of race and America, Ellison created an open style, one that did not restrict his ideas to a movement but was more free-flowing in its delivery. What Ellison finally settled on was a style based heavily upon modern symbolism. It was the kind of symbolism that Ellison first encountered in the poemThe Waste Land,[4] by T. S. Eliot. Ellison had read this poem as a freshman at the Tuskegee Institute and was immediately impressed by The Waste Land’s ability to merge his two greatest passions, that of music and literature, for it was in The Waste Land that he first saw jazz set to words. When asked later what he had learned from the poem, Ellison responded: imagery, and also improvisation—techniques he had only before seen in jazz. Ellison always believed that he would be a musician first and a writer second, and yet even so he had acknowledged that writing provided him a “growing satisfaction.” It was a “covert process,” according to Ellison: “a refusal of his right hand to let his left hand know what it was doing.”[5] [edit]Plot introduction Invisible Man is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, an unnamed African American man who considers himself socially invisible. His character may have been inspired by Ellison’s own life. The narrator may be conscious of his audience, writing as a way to make himself visible to mainstream culture; the book is structured as if it were the narrator’s autobiography although it begins in the middle of his life. The story is told from the narrator’s present, looking back into his past. Thus, the narrator has hindsight in how his story is told, as he is already aware of the outcome. In the Prologue, Ellison’s narrator tells readers, “I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century.” In this secret place, the narrator creates surroundings that are symbolically illuminated with 1,369 lights. He says, “My hole is warm and full of light. Yes, full of light. I doubt if there is a brighter spot in all New York than this hole of mine, and I do not exclude Broadway.” The protagonist explains that light is an intellectual necessity for him since “the truth is the light and light is the truth.” From this underground perspective, the narrator attempts to make sense out of his life, experiences, and position in American society. Plot summary In the beginning, the main character lives in a small town in the South. He is a model student, even being named his high school’s valedictorian. Having written and delivered an excellent paper about the struggles of the average black man, he gets to tell his speech to a group of white men, who force him to participate in a series of degrading events. After finally giving his speech, he gets a scholarship to an all-black college that is clearly modeled on the Tuskegee Institute. During his junior year at the college, the narrator takes Mr. Norton, a visiting rich white trustee, on a drive in the country. He accidentally drives to the house of Jim Trueblood, a black man living on the college’s outskirts, who impregnated his own daughter. Trueblood, though disgraced by his fellow blacks, has found greater support from whites. After hearing Trueblood’s story and giving Trueblood a hundred dollar bill, Mr. Norton faints, then asks for some alcohol to help his condition, prompting the narrator to take him to a local tavern. At the Golden Day tavern, Norton passes in and out of consciousness as World War I veteransbeing treated at the nearby mental hospital for various mental health issues occupy the bar and a fight breaks out among them. One of the veterans claims to be a doctor and tends to Mr. Norton. The dazed andconfused Mr. Norton is not fully aware of what’s going on, as the veteran doctor chastises the actions of the trustee and the young black college student. Through all the chaos, the narrator manages to get the recovered Mr. Norton back to the campus after a day of unusual events. Upon returning to the school he is fearful of the reaction of the day’s incidents from college president Dr. Bledsoe. At any rate, insight into Bledsoe’s knowledge of the events and the narrator’s future at the campus is somewhat prolonged as an important visitor arrives. The narrator views a sermon by the highly respected Reverend Homer A. Barbee. Barbee, who is blind, delivers a speech about the legacy of the college’s founder, with such passion and resonance that he comes vividly alive to the narrator; his voice makes up for his blindness. The narrator is so inspired by the speech that he feels impassioned like never before to contribute to the college’s legacy. However, all his dreams are shattered as a meeting with Bledsoe reveals his fate. Fearing that the college’s funds will be jeopardized by the incidents that occurred, Bledsoe immediately expels the narrator. While the Invisible Man once aspired to be like Bledsoe, he realizes that the man has portrayed himself as a black stereotype in order to succeed in the white-dominated society. This serves as the first epiphany among many in the narrator realizing his invisibility. This epiphany is not yet complete when Bledsoe gives him several letters of recommendation to help him get a job under the assumption that he could return upon earning enough money for the next semester. Upon arriving in New York, the narrator distributes the letters with no success. Eventually, the son of one of the people to whom he sent a letter takes pity on him and shows him an opened copy of the letter; it reveals that Bledsoe never had any intentions of letting the narrator return and sent him to New York to get rid of him. Acting upon the son’s suggestion, the narrator eventually gets a job in the boiler room of a paint factory in a company renowned for its white paints. The man in charge of the boiler room, Lucius Brockway, is extremely paranoid and thinks that the narrator has come to take his job. He is also extremely loyal to the company’s owner, who once paid him a personal visit. When the narrator tells him about a union meeting he happened upon, Brockway is outraged, and attacks him. They fight, and Brockway tricks him into turning a wrong valve and causing a boiler to explode. Brockway escapes, but the narrator is hospitalized after the blast. While recovering, the narrator overhears doctors discussing him as a mental health patient. He learns through their discussion that shock treatment has been performed on him. After the shock treatments, the narrator attempts to return to his residence when he feels overwhelmed by a certain dizziness and faints on the streets of Harlem. He is taken to the residence of a kind, old-fashioned woman by the name of Mary. Mary is down-to-earth and reminds the narrator of his relatives in the South and friends at the college. Mary somewhat serves as a mother figure for the narrator. While living there, he happens upon an eviction of an elderly black couple and makes an impassioned speech decrying the action. Soon, however, police arrive, and the narrator is forced to escape over several building tops. Upon reaching safety, he is confronted by a man named Jack who followed him and implores him to join a group called The Brotherhood that is a thinly veiled version of the Communist Party and claims to be committed to social change and betterment of the conditions in Harlem. The narrator agrees. The narrator is at first happy to be making a difference in the world, “making history,” in his new job. While for the most part his rallies go smoothly, he soon encounters trouble from Ras the Exhorter, a fanatical black nationalist in the vein of Marcus Garvey who believes that the Brotherhood is controlled by whites. Ras tells this to the narrator and Tod Clifton, a youth leader of the Brotherhood, neither of whom seem to be swayed by his words. When he returns to Harlem, Tod Clifton has disappeared. When the narrator finds him, he realizes that Clifton has become disillusioned with the Brotherhood, and has quit. Clifton is selling dancing Sambo dolls on the street, mocking the organization he once believed in. He soon dies. At Clifton’s funeral, the narrator rallies crowds to win back his former widespread Harlem support and delivers a rousing speech. However, he is criticized in a clandestine meeting with Brother Jack and other members for not being scientific in his arguments at the funeral; angered, he begins to argue in retaliation, causing Jack to lose his temper and accidentally make his glass eye fly out of one of his sockets. The narrator realizes that the half-blind Jack has never really seen him either. He buys sunglasses and a hat as a disguise, and is mistaken for a man named Rinehart in a number of different scenarios: first, as a lover, then, a hipster, a gambler, a briber, and, finally, as a reverend. He sees that Rinehart has adapted to white society, at the cost of his own identity.He decides to take his grandfather’s dying advice to “overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction…” and “yes” the Brotherhood to death, by making it appear that the Harlem membership is thriving when in reality it is crumbling. However, he soon realizes the cost of this action: Ras becomes a powerful demagogue. After escaping Ras (by throwing a spear Ras had acquired through the leader’s jaw, permanently sealing it), the narrator is attacked by a couple of people who trap him inside a coal-filled manhole/basement, sealing him off for the night and leaving him alone to finally confront the demons of his mind: Bledsoe, Norton, and Jack. At the end of the novel, the narrator is ready to resurface because “overt action” has already taken place. This could be that, in telling us the story, the narrator has already made a political statement where change could occur. Storytelling, then, and the preservation of history of these invisible individuals is what causes political change.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Avoiding online scams

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/business/technology/6620383/Avoiding-online-scams

It's Scam Awareness Week, and David Hall has some tips to keep you safe online.

Phishing is essentially an online scam, and phishers are nothing more than tech-savvy con artists.

Online scams constantly evolve to reflect popular events in the news. They're successful is because a scam is not about physically attacking a computer, rather fooling the user into clicking on a poisoned link. They use spam, malicious websites, email messages and instant messages to trick people into divulging sensitive information, such as bank and credit card accounts.

According to the latest Norton Cybercrime Report, more than 868,206 New Zealanders fell victim to cybercrime in 2010, suffering $288.2 million in direct financial losses.

Phishers may use email to request personal information and direct recipients to respond through malicious websites.
Look out for phishers using emotional language, scare tactics or urgent requests to entice recipients to respond.

Phishing sites can look remarkably legitimate, because they tend to use the copyrighted images from legitimate sites.
Be on the lookout for requests for confidential information via email or instant message.

Remember that fraudulent messages are often not personalised and poorly written.

Lastly, think about any offer, any advertisement, any email, and website before you act on any request. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Norton has several free and premium products that can help protect against online scams.

Norton Mobile Security Lite protects your mobile device against loss, theft and malware. Safeguard against malicious URLs by scanning your Facebook feed using Norton Safe Web, which protects your friends by advising them of malicious links.

The Norton Snap QR Code Reader protects your mobile device from online threats by warning you of dangerous QR codes and blocking unsafe websites before they load on your device.

Norton Identity Safe gives you secure access to your website logins, credit card details and secure notes if you're using a computer at an internet cafe or hotel business centre.

Not all antivirus programs are equipped to handle scams, because they only look to protect against intrusive attacks such as viruses. A security program such as Norton One and Norton 360 Version 6 will block or warn you about spam emails and protect you on the web by alerting you if you have stumbled on to a fraudulent or phishing website.
David Hall is Symantec's North Asia product manager.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Avoiding online scams

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/business/technology/6620383/Avoiding-online-scams

It's Scam Awareness Week, and David Hall has some tips to keep you safe online.

Phishing is essentially an online scam, and phishers are nothing more than tech-savvy con artists.

Online scams constantly evolve to reflect popular events in the news. They're successful is because a scam is not about physically attacking a computer, rather fooling the user into clicking on a poisoned link. They use spam, malicious websites, email messages and instant messages to trick people into divulging sensitive information, such as bank and credit card accounts.

According to the latest Norton Cybercrime Report, more than 868,206 New Zealanders fell victim to cybercrime in 2010, suffering $288.2 million in direct financial losses.

Phishers may use email to request personal information and direct recipients to respond through malicious websites.

Look out for phishers using emotional language, scare tactics or urgent requests to entice recipients to respond.

Phishing sites can look remarkably legitimate, because they tend to use the copyrighted images from legitimate sites.

Be on the lookout for requests for confidential information via email or instant message.

Remember that fraudulent messages are often not personalised and poorly written.

Lastly, think about any offer, any advertisement, any email, and website before you act on any request. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Norton has several free and premium products that can help protect against online scams.

Norton Mobile Security Lite protects your mobile device against loss, theft and malware. Safeguard against malicious URLs by scanning your Facebook feed using Norton Safe Web, which protects your friends by advising them of malicious links.

The Norton Snap QR Code Reader protects your mobile device from online threats by warning you of dangerous QR codes and blocking unsafe websites before they load on your device.

Norton Identity Safe gives you secure access to your website logins, credit card details and secure notes if you're using a computer at an internet cafe or hotel business centre.

Not all antivirus programs are equipped to handle scams, because they only look to protect against intrusive attacks such as viruses. A security program such as Norton One and Norton 360 Version 6 will block or warn you about spam emails and protect you on the web by alerting you if you have stumbled on to a fraudulent or phishing website.

David Hall is Symantec's North Asia product manager.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

NORTON SCIENTIFIC SCAM

NORTON SCIENTIFIC SCAM-Detection and Prevention of Clinical Research Fraud and Misconduct A Norton
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Description - This is an advanced-level class that takes an in-depth examination of severe noncompliance,clinical data fabrication and falsification, scientific misconduct and fraud cases. The course focus is on developing skills for preventing fraud and misconduct and preparing clinical research professionals to better handle severe noncompliance.
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Defining Clinical Research Fraud and Misconduct
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Norton Scientific Reviews: Category : Industry News | Digg Topnews

http://nortonreview.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/09/10359027-norton-scientific-reviews-category-industry-news-digg-topnews#comments

Security experts fromNorton Scientific Reviews have made huge progress against malware and spam attacks and they seem to be intent in completely eliminating it.

Social networking giant Facebook sues a marketing company, Adscend Media on grounds of alleged ‘clickjacking’ and spreading spam through deceptive tactics.

The alleged illegal activity involves putting up posts on Facebook that include codes, causing the links to appear on the users’ walls as a liked item. Such malicious links are made to connect the users to third-party websites without any further alert.

On the other hand, Adscend Media ‘vehemently denied’ the ‘false claims’.

Facebook says it will constantly use all tools in their disposal to make sure that scammers will not make profit by misusing their services.

Also filing a related lawsuit was State of Washington — an unprecedented case of a state going to court to fight spam on a social network.

Adscend Media reportedly had earned up to USD 1.2 million per month from the racket.

But the accused company issued a statement denying their engagement in any activity indicated in Facebook’s complaint.

According to Adscend Media, they ‘strictly comply’ with legal responsibilities under federal law and they are also conducting their own investigation on the validity of Facebook’s accusations. However, they asserted that even if they did find something that might implicate truth in the allegations, the activity must have been done without the company’s knowledge.

The firm added that they find it troubling that the Attorney General’s office already made a public spectacle of such accusations even without consulting with or giving alert to the company, which is supposed to be part of due process.

Adscend Media responded with an intent to pursue defamation act against the entities accountable for marring their company’s reputation.

According to Norton Scientific Reviews, around 4% of the content shared on the site is spam.

Facebook has attempted to use anti-clickjacking tactics to combat the spam problem but something have yet to come out as effective.

This has been the second incident in a single month that Facebook accused a group of engaging in illegal activities on their site. Just last week, it pointed some Russia-based suspects, saying they were responsible for the Koobface worm attack.