Delisting Newscorp Sites

In perhap a brillent move that could potentialy the landscape of the Internet, News Corp has begun disucssion with Miscrosoft and Google to delist their websites from their two search engines.  Websites such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, 20th Century Fox, and Fox News.  What this will do is perhap take a large portion of free content off the web.

It could enable New Corp to charge for access to their content and help it protect such publications like the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers whose readership is deterorating.  If one can’t get the Wall STreet Journal for free on the web, one might actually start buying it again.

Let see how this all shakes out.

Recognzing Phishing Emails

Phishing is an attempt via email to trick people into revealing sensitive inforamtion like username, passwords, and credit cared information about them selves by pretending to be a bank or some other legitimate entity.  The emails usually contain a link to a website that appears to be legitimate and which prompts you to provide your information.

Sometimes, these emails will contain a form attached for you to fill out your information.  One common tactic is to pretend to be from the fraud department of a bank or online retailer and ask for information to be provided to avoid identify fraud.

There is also an increasing amount of emails exploiting news of interest and other popular topics to trick people into clicking on links.  One email about swine flue asked people to provide their name, address, phone number, and etc as part of the survey about the flu.  And users of social network are becoming popular targets.  As these users are being directed to fake login pages.

So be careful out there and just don’t innocently give out your personal information to anyone without double checking the request and the reason for it.