Maxim Bange

In my free webinar,"Get Your Facebook Page Done!" (http://facebook.self-publishing-coach.com/free-webinar) I showed you how to add the Static HTML iFrame app in order to add a "Like" gate to your Facebook page.  When you participate in my class, you get three HTML templates to use (http://facebook.self-publishing-coach.com/page).  

However, I've had a couple questions on how to add basic HTML to this app from people who attended the webinar and wanted to share a few basic HTML codes with you.

Because the codes won't show up correctly in this note, I've saved them in a .txt file that you can download here:

http://www.self-publishing-coach.com/support-files/basic-html-codes-for-facebook-pages.txt

I hope this helps!

Shelley

http://facebook.self-publishing-coach.com/page

The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects. But the troubled "Obamacare" IT system—which uses systems that aren't connected in any way to the federal IT infrastructure—is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the government's IT problems.

Despite efforts to make government IT systems more modern and efficient, many agencies are stuck in a technology time warp that affects how projects like the healthcare exchange portal are built. Long procurement cycles for even minor government technology projects, the slow speed of approval to operate new technologies, and the vast installed base of systems that government IT managers have to deal with all contribute to the glacial adoption of new technology. With the faces at the top of agency IT organizations changing every few years, each bringing some marquee project to burnish their résumés, it can take a decade to effect changes that last.

That inertia shows on agency networks. The government lags far behind current technology outside the islands of modernization created by high-profile projects. In 2012, according to documents obtained by MuckRock, the Drug Enforcement Agency's standard server platform was still Windows Server 2003.

I am putting together a "media room" on the website for the book I co-authored with my husband, "Forgiveness Formula."  I found this article with recommendations on what to include in a press kit or media room:

http://wordpreneur.com/how-to-create-an-effective-press-kit-for-your-book/

What do you recommend?  Here is the page I started today:  http://www.theforgivenessformula.com/media-room

It currently includes:

• Book synopsis
• Author bio
• Author photos (with a link to download high resolution, print quality version)
• Audio Interviews
• Audio and Video
• Endorsements/reviews
• Speaking topics

Any other suggestions?  I do plan to add a press release that we will also post on press release sites.

Love learning from you and with you!

~Shelley ~

Controversial Chinese component maker Foxconn has admitted that student interns were assigned to work overtime in order to make parts for Sony's PlayStation 4, in violation of the company's policies.

Reports emerged yesterday from Chinese site Tencent Games (translated by Games in Asia) that thousands of students from the Xi’an Institute of Technology were forced to work at the Foxconn plant in order to receive six course credits necessary for them to graduate. Once at the plant, the students were reportedly put into menial assembly line jobs rather than anything related to their fields of study. According to the reports, they were forced to work long hours, including night shifts and overtime.

In a statement obtained by news site Quartz, Foxconn said that “immediate actions have been taken to bring that campus into full compliance with our code and policies" and that the company is "reinforcing the policies of no overtime and no night shifts for student interns." Foxconn stressed, however, that the interns' work was voluntary and that they could "terminate their participation in the program at any time." The course credit requirement appears to belie that claim, however.

Cornell

Our planet’s interior is complex and has many layers. There are many unsolved mysteries about the formation and structure of these layers, but new research is providing some clues about how Earth’s internal structure may have evolved.

If you were to take a journey to the center of the Earth, you would find that most material there is made of just three elements, at least until you get to around 3000 km below the surface. These elements—oxygen, silicon, and magnesium (plus a little bit of iron)—make up more than 90% of Earth’s “ceramic” mantle. Electrically and thermally insulating, the minerals of the mantle are the stony part of the planet.

But as you go deeper, things suddenly change. About midway to the center, you cross a boundary from the stony mantle into the metallic core, initially liquid in its upper stretches, and then solid right in the center of the Earth. The chemistry changes, too, with almost all of the core being composed of iron.

​This month the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is giving some special attention to two malware families - Win32/Foidan and Win32/Shiotob.

We are targeting these families due to their increased prevalence.

Lately, we’ve been adding and improving our detections for the Shiotob family. Shiotob is a family of trojan spyware that steals system information and user credentials by monitoring network activities. These were first seen in 2011, yet are still managing to trouble people today.

The family can use several installation methods, and we’ve seen them  spreading as an email attachment. Shiotob trojans are capable of gathering email addresses from an infected system and sending them to the trojan server, at which point the collected addresses are sent emails with the malware as an attachment.

Here are some example attachment file names:

• DHL_Express_POST-NOTIFICATION_<some strings>.zip
• Booking_Hotel_Reservation_Details_<some strings>.zip
• DHL-International-Delivery-Notification_<some strings>.zip
• DHL_ONLINE_SHIPPING_PREALERT_<some strings>.zip
• DHL-Worldwide-Delivery-Notification-<some strings>.zip

In this case <some strings> are random and can include dates and random text, for example DHL_Express_POST-NOTIFICATION_28FEB_4S1XFSR9.zip.

When the trojans run, they inject themselves into legitimate processes and then terminate their own process. We’ve seen them inject themselves into:

• csrss.exe 
• svchost.exe
• iexplore.exe
• explore.exe

This makes them hidden from the user when viewing processes in Task Manager or other process-viewer tools.

In subkey: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\userinit.exe
Adds value: "Debugger"
With data: "<malware path>"

In subkey: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Adds value: "random value name"
With data: "<malware path> -autorun"

• OS version
• Service pack
• IP address
• User Access Control (UAC) status (on or off)
• Email addresses from Windows Address Book (WAB)
• FTP credentials
• Email accounts

• Avant.exe
• Ccftp.exe
• Chrome.exe
• Coreftp.exe
• Filezilla.exe
• Firefox.exe
• Ftpte.exe
• FTPVoyager.exe
• Iexplore.exe
• Maxthon.exe
• Mozilla.exe
• Msimn.exe
• Myie.exe
• Opera.exe
• Outlook.exe
• SmartFTP.exe
• Thebat.exe
• Totalcmd.exe
• WinSCP.exe 

• Closesocket
• Connect
• HttpOpenRequestA
• HttpOpenRequestW
• HttpQueryInfoA
• HttpQueryInfoW
• HttpSendRequestA
• HttpSendRequestW
• InternetCloseHandle
• InternetQueryDataAvailable
• InternetReadFile
• InternetReadFileExA
• InternetWriteFileExW
• Send

At the Gartner Symposium in Florida today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company would bring Office to the iPad after the touch-friendly Windows version comes out. According to The Verge, Ballmer specifically noted that "iPad will be picked up when there's a touch-first user interface,” which Ballmer said is “in progress.”

Microsoft released Microsoft Office Mobile for iOS back in June, but that version was optimized for the iPhone only. That iPhone-optimized version is free to users with an Office 365 subscription (in that the app doesn't cost the user one of the five device license slots that come with a subscription), and it syncs with the user's files in SkyDrive. With the SkyDrive connection, users can create new documents or open existing ones from the iPhone app.

Ballmer didn't offer much information beyond simply confirming that there's an iPad-optimized Office app in the works, but getting Office on a wide range of devices seems to be the party line at the moment. That could bode well for Android users hoping to get a little Office love themselves. As Microsoft's head of applications and services Qi Lu cryptically mentioned at a recent analyst meeting, the company is working to bring its “core apps in the Office suite... to Windows devices and also to other devices in ways that meet our customers' needs."

Samsung Tomorrow

So the rumors were true. Just a day after we reported on the implications of Samsung's flexible display technology, we have images of the first fruits of its labors. Announced in Korea today, Samsung's Galaxy Round sports a 5.7" 1080p flexible display that's mounted on a gentle curve along its short side. The latitudinal curve is contrary to the expectations that the curve would be along the long axis, so as to better conform to the face during conversations.

Never one to skimp on the features, Samsung is adding some new usage models, enabled by the curved design.

Dubbed "Roll Effect," one technique makes use of the curve as a way to provide glanceable information by simply rolling one edge down when the Round is lying on its back. The time, notifications and other useful information fades into view and fades out when released.

The man believed to be responsible for distributing the notorious Blackhole malware toolkit has been arrested in Russia, a source told Reuters today. The source, a former Russian police detective in contact with Russia's federal government, said that the man went by “Paunch” in hacking circles.

No other information was given, but a spokesman for Europol in the Hague told Reuters that the police agency “had been informed that a high-level suspected cyber-criminal” had been arrested in Russia.

Blackhole is a widely known exploit toolkit that makes “drive-by” attacks easier for hackers to execute. It allows criminals to inject malware onto PCs that either visit exploit sites or are redirected to exploit sites from compromised websites. As one of the primary names behind Blackhole, Paunch kept the toolkit current as new weaknesses in commonly used programs were discovered: in 2012 Paunch released Blackhole 2.0, and recent custom versions of the toolkit incorporated ways to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Java's browser plugin.

Wikipedia

At least three high-profile websites that receive services from Network Solutions have been hijacked in recent days in attacks that are prompting speculation that the compromises are the result of a security lapse inside the popular domain registrar and Web host.

Competing antivirus providers Avira and AVG are confirmed to have been hit, as was messaging software developer Whatsapp. Alexa and Redtube have also been reported to be struck by the same attackers, although that claim wasn't verified. All five websites rely on services from Network Solutions, which is owned by Web.com. At least some of the victims report losing control of the domain name system (DNS) servers used to route Internet traffic, a lapse that made it possible for hackers to redirect e-mail and Web traffic to malicious servers.

"It appears that our account used to manage DNS records registered at Network Solutions has received a fake password-reset request which was honored by the provider," Avira officials wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. "Using the new credentials, the cybercriminals have been able to change the entries to point to their DNS servers."