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This weekend marks a great celebration for my parents … Despite what they had been saying for the last 43 years that I can remember ..

THEY MADE IT 50 YEARS TOGETHER!

Congratulations

This category it to keep track of our visits to the Victoria Beach Cottage. I have created a portal site where you can see any pictures that we might take with our digital camera at ..

HBSMC.com/victoriabeach/ | All Pictures Taken At Victoria Beach

Thanksgiving weekend marked the end .. (of what we plan so far) of our Summer 2006 trips out to Victoria Beach. All pictures are now loaded.

We might go back over XMas break or other day trips .. we don’t know - but, as for a “Summer” trip - Summer is over.

We had fun! And we will have many years of fun.

This category it to keep track of our visits to the Victoria Beach Cottage. I have created a portal site where you can see any pictures that we might take with our digital camera at ..

HBSMC.com/victoriabeach/ | All Pictures Taken At Victoria Beach

Brrrrr… it was as high as mid-teens on Saturday - midday - … but at night and early morning it was about 6c .. and most of the day around 11c …

I don’t know why I brought my swimming suit .. but, you just never know right?

I’ve added pictures to the gallery, starting towards the end of Page 10 through to Page 13.

One thing I’ve learned … I still have NOT worn socks and swear by my CROCS .. and my feet were NOT cold either! It’s almost as if the rubber insulated from the cold and kept my feet warm.

Neat-o.

This category it to keep track of our visits to the Victoria Beach Cottage. I have created a portal site where you can see any pictures that we might take with our digital camera at ..

HBSMC.com/victoriabeach/ | All Pictures Taken At Victoria Beach

I was milking it up trying to enjoy the last of the summer. The temperature was getting colder during the morning and evenings, and about 24-26 celcius during the mid-afternoon. Although, I noticed that the sun was not straight over our heads anymore .. and shifted in its rise and setting.

Also .. the water, as refreshing as it was .. got colder much sooner! It’s a big lake. We’re taking off another weekend .. and our tentative plans are to do a day trip, and another weekend .. and then based on the weather .. considering if its best to keep going out on day trips - or close it down for the winter. Of course, that decision is not up to me (and Yvonne alone) .. there are partners involved … hopefully .. the others will want to keep it open or accessible all winter so maybe we can go up there and cross country ski or something cool like that.

This category it to keep track of our visits to the Victoria Beach Cottage. I have created a portal site where you can see any pictures that we might take with our digital camera at ..

HBSMC.com/victoriabeach/ | All Pictures Taken At Victoria Beach

We had a nice time. Yvonne invited her friend Brenda and Gary out on Saturday the 19th .. and had a fun filled day walking, swimming, socializing .. etc etc.

I was unable to spend the time during the last weekend of August, due to deadlines on the 31st .. (which coincided with our 4th wedding anniversary!)

My apologies ..

Five of my sites were down since yesterday .. although some of the RSS Feeds were still working, and I’ve been getting comment spam .. most have not been able to view the site. I believe it was a “Permissions” issue, as a result of some migration of my account to new host servers.. But, I’ll never know for sure - because I’m not asking .. I’m just glad we’re back online! WooHoo!

Sorry for any inconvenience!!

Take care.
HART

We have just opened up for public submissions additions to our *NEW* and *FREE* Directory Listing … sponsored by our newest addition to the HART-Empire Network … 62-151 Media Group.

All submissions are manually accepted and approved by a human being [by me .. HART (1-800-HART)], to avoid spam and splogs from appearing in the list.

We will be placing links in most of our sidebars, and invite anybody with a blog or website to come and include their site in our Free-For-All Directory Listing.

I should note that if you are using (the much superior i.m.o.) Internet Explorer v7 browser .. you will see the following in the sidebars..

Sadly to say .. if you are NOT using Internet Explorer and using FireFox browser .. you probably just see this instead ..

However, regardless of your view .. if you click on either graphic or the text link below .. you will be transported to our new Directory Listing!

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Oregon – A keystroke-capturing Trojan was blamed for the possible compromise of the personal information of 2200 tax payers.

Nebraska – The states child support payment system was hijacked by a hacker who gained access to personal information of 300,000 individuals and employers who pay and receive child support.

Virginia – The Baltimore Sun reported that Chinese hackers recently hijacked a classified computer system of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and made off with confidential information.

Finland – Police in Finland and the U.K. teamed up to arrest three men in connection with worm attacks. Authorities arrested a 63-year-old, 28-year-old and a 19-year-old.  The trio are suspected of being members of the MOOP virus-writing gang.
Israel – Pro-Palestinian messages defaced many of the nation’s websites following the abduction of an Israeli soldier and the Jewish state’s invasion of Southern Gaza.  The hacker was believed to be based out of Morocco.

Top Ten hoax threats

Hotmail Hoax
Olympic torch
Justice for Jamie
Bonsai Kitten
Meninas da Playboy
Budweiser frogs screensaver
Bill Gates fortune
MSN is closing down
A virtual card for you
Mobile phone hoax

Malware: Infection starts to slip. Trojans and exploits made up 22% of all infections last month, while viruses and worms only accounted for one-in-10 infected computers.

Zombies: Image based spam on the rise. Total zombies for June 2006 7,796,846 up 2.9% from May.

Grayware: Infections stay steady. Nearly a third of all grayware infections (28%) were adware.  Trackware made up 10%, while browser helpers accounted for 13%. Browser hijackers recorded a paltry of 1% of grayware.

Zero-Day attacks

63% Backdoor.Naninf.e
27% Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Vidio.ae
4% Trojan-Spy.Win32.Bzub.aa
6% Others

The zero-day attacks were dominated by two viruses that made up 90% of all new malware in June.

Top 10 Spyware

DesktopSpam
Zlob.Media-Codec
Looking-For-Home Search Assistant
Virtumonde
SpywareQuake
180Solutions. Search Assistant
Command Service
DollarRevenue
Zango.Search.Assistant

Tags: trojans, worms, viruses, scams, computer, security,

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Stop Cyber Terrorism

Q&A: Making a federal case — how the FBI collars Cyber-Criminals
Robert Mitchell

July 28, 2006 (Computerworld) Identity theft, hacking for profit, espionage, iPod slurping — the FBI is increasingly focused on helping organizations fight these and other cybercrimes. Computerworld’s Robert L. Mitchell asked several agents what they’re seeing in the field and what advice they can offer IT.

Andrew G. Arena is special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal division in New York, Matt Heron is assistant special agent in charge of the transnational criminal enterprise branch in New York, and Timothy O’Brien is a special agent with the computer crimes squad in the New York office. Nenette Day, a special agent in Boston, was responsible for a sting operation that recovered the source code stolen from a major computer-aided design software vendor
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You all met recently with corporate CIOs. Why are you seeking them out?
Arena: We’re trying to build a relationship with the private sector where they will trust us, where they will be comfortable coming to us if there is an intrusion.

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