In all of my searching for blogger-compatible blog templates, I've come across many websites, blog pages, and although they look very promising, these are still needing experimentation.
That would go through template change, and viewing in different browsers. Mind you, some display properly in one browser, but not in the other. So while you are already very happy with the new template, the whole structure collapses once again.
Anyway, I've found one good source of such 3-column templates, not to mention a whole lot of them, and for sure, you will surely find one of your liking. I downloaded a ton, but have to make a very wise decision of which one to use.
You can find the website here.
My other blogs are here and here.
See you there!
04 April, 2009
01 April, 2009
Recession fuels cybercrime
Online fraud rose 33% last year and is surging this year as crisis deepens, says US report
BOSTON
FRAUD on the Internet reported to the authorities in the United States increased by 33 per cent last year, rising for the first time in three years, and is surging this year as the recession deepens, the federal authorities said on Monday.
Internet-fraud losses reported in the US reached a record high of US$264.6 million (S$401.9 million) last year, according to a report released on Monday by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Online scams originating from across the globe – mostly from the US, Canada, Britain, Nigeria and China – are gathering steam this year, with a nearly 50 per cent rise in complaints reported to US authorities in last month alone.
“2009 is shaping up to be a very busy year in terms of cybercrime,” the report’s author, Mr John Kane, said.
Last year’s losses slightly exceed the US$239.1 million lost in 2007, but dwarf the US$18 million lost in 2001.
The most common complaint last year was non-delivery of promised merchandise, followed by auction fraud, credit-card fraud and investment scams, according to the report.
Of 275,284 complaints received by the centre last year, about 72,940 were referred to US law-enforcement agencies for prosecution.
Those referrals spiked this year, with 40,000 in the first quarter alone, said Mr Kane, who is managing director of the National White Collar Crime Center in Richmond, Virginia. “Our own research suggests that as few as 15 per cent of cases of cyberfraud are being reported to crime-control agencies,” he said.
Scammers in the US made up 66 per cent of complaints referred to the authorities, followed by Britain at 11 per cent, Nigeria at 7.5 per cent, Canada at 3 per cent and China at 1.6 per cent.
Fraudulent sales on online auction sites like eBay and classified sites like craigslist.com contributed to a 32 per cent rise in the hottest area of online fraud – non-delivery of promised merchandise, the report said.
The report said almost 80 per cent of known perpetrators of online scams are male.
Of those making complaints, nearly half are between the ages of 30 and 50. The median dollar loss was US$931 per complaint, although the median losses for cheque fraud reached US$3,000, and that for investment scams was US$2,000.
– REUTERS
From myPaper, My News, WORLD
Wednesday, 01-April-2009
BOSTON
FRAUD on the Internet reported to the authorities in the United States increased by 33 per cent last year, rising for the first time in three years, and is surging this year as the recession deepens, the federal authorities said on Monday.
Internet-fraud losses reported in the US reached a record high of US$264.6 million (S$401.9 million) last year, according to a report released on Monday by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Online scams originating from across the globe – mostly from the US, Canada, Britain, Nigeria and China – are gathering steam this year, with a nearly 50 per cent rise in complaints reported to US authorities in last month alone.
“2009 is shaping up to be a very busy year in terms of cybercrime,” the report’s author, Mr John Kane, said.
Last year’s losses slightly exceed the US$239.1 million lost in 2007, but dwarf the US$18 million lost in 2001.
The most common complaint last year was non-delivery of promised merchandise, followed by auction fraud, credit-card fraud and investment scams, according to the report.
Of 275,284 complaints received by the centre last year, about 72,940 were referred to US law-enforcement agencies for prosecution.
Those referrals spiked this year, with 40,000 in the first quarter alone, said Mr Kane, who is managing director of the National White Collar Crime Center in Richmond, Virginia. “Our own research suggests that as few as 15 per cent of cases of cyberfraud are being reported to crime-control agencies,” he said.
Scammers in the US made up 66 per cent of complaints referred to the authorities, followed by Britain at 11 per cent, Nigeria at 7.5 per cent, Canada at 3 per cent and China at 1.6 per cent.
Fraudulent sales on online auction sites like eBay and classified sites like craigslist.com contributed to a 32 per cent rise in the hottest area of online fraud – non-delivery of promised merchandise, the report said.
The report said almost 80 per cent of known perpetrators of online scams are male.
Of those making complaints, nearly half are between the ages of 30 and 50. The median dollar loss was US$931 per complaint, although the median losses for cheque fraud reached US$3,000, and that for investment scams was US$2,000.
– REUTERS
From myPaper, My News, WORLD
Wednesday, 01-April-2009
JavaRa, from RaProducts
Today my Secunia PSI detected 5 threats in my office PC, and all about Java. I was clinking on the solution available through the download link, but after the installation of the supposedly 'fix' to the unsecure version, the status remains as a security threat.
After I clicked on the forum link, I went through the posted messages, then somebody suggested running JavaRa, a separate software that will detect the older version of anything that is Java (did I get that right?).
I went to the site as indicated in the post, and I found that there are some other tools, aside from JavaRa, available for free to everyone.
You may need something from that site. Find it here, RaProducts.org.
After I clicked on the forum link, I went through the posted messages, then somebody suggested running JavaRa, a separate software that will detect the older version of anything that is Java (did I get that right?).
I went to the site as indicated in the post, and I found that there are some other tools, aside from JavaRa, available for free to everyone.
You may need something from that site. Find it here, RaProducts.org.
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