Smeland's Scoop

Spanking new from Smeland's Scoop is a excellent new site just for kids. In fact, I love this one so much (very child friendly) I have just set this as the homepage for my granddaughter's computer. KidFriendlySearch is a great deal safer than Google. KidFriendlySearch is very informative and educational. I have not bumped into any banner ads or pop ups that tend to lead to trouble.

Website of the Week: http://www.kidfriendlysearch.com/

Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog

If you are new to blogging like me, the Tips Blogger is a great blog to subscribe to. When I first started messing with Google Webmaster Tools, I never finished the Sitemaps. Tips Blogger makes it Oh so easy.

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Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster helps the search engine(Google) to crawl your webpages easily and more quickly! This post explains the procedure. . .

Java up to date

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Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 Server
Version 6 Update 12

Just in from SecurityCadets

BREAKING: Kaspersky Site Breach Exposes Data

February 8th, 2009 by AndyAtHull

It has emerged Kaspersky.com has been breached by a hacker over the weekend.

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CCleaner - Freeware Windows Optimization

A new version of CCleaner, 2.16.830

What's New[27th Jan 2009]

• Google Chrome v2.0 compatibility fixes.
• Improved SeaMonkey support.
• Many translation updates.
• Cookie options loading now fully threaded.
• Lots of minor interface improvements.
• Minor performance improvements.

more version info...

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CCleaner and Piriform are registered trademarks of Piriform Ltd.

My Security Reading for Today

Viagra Valentines by Richard Medugno

The new target of Waledac Storm worm: Valentine’s day by Oscar Cavada

The new target of Waledac Storm worm: Valentine’s day by Oscar Cavada

Conficker/Downadup Scanning by Patrick Nolan

When Cyber Criminals Eat Their Own by Brian Krebs

Twitter spammer caught on camera by Graham Cluley

OSX/iWorkS-B another Trojan affecting dodgy downloads by SophosLabs

WALEDAC Loves (to Spam) You by Florabel Baetiong

F-Secure updates MS08-067 Conficker Worm Removal Tool MSMVPS.COM

Apple's First 2009 Patch Batch Fixes 7 QuickTime Flaws by Brian Krebs

Secunia Online Software Inspector - Reminder

Secunia has updated the Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI) with new rules for detecting insecure software.

Run the Secunia OSI to make sure that your system is up-to-date:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/

What is New:

1) Inspection rules have been updated.

Best regards,
Secunia Support