"Let the buyer beware" in Internet/retail transactions

Consider this my effort to educate the public on the matters as they are in in the internet realm of existence, thinking you might not read I.T. reports and or Security newsletters [but I do]. In the first three months of 2011, these companies, and governments have had their computer systems broken into by cybercriminals/other governments/bad people:
1) Sony Corp & their Playstation Network
2) LiveJournal blogs [newest report of attempt to destroy that platform in today's news]
And working backwards on the dates hacks were discovered/reported:
3) Epsilon Data Management had 50 of their client accounts broken into and those clients are:
-Verizon
-Best Buy
-Dillons
-Food 4 Less
-Fred Mayer
-Fry's
-Home Shopping Network {HSN}
-Jay C
-McKinsey Quarterly
-New York & Co
-QFC
-Ralph's
-Capitol One Banks
-Barclays Bank
-JPMorganChase Bank
-TiVo
-Walgreen's Drug Stores
-Citigroup/banks
-US Bank
-College Board of 5900 Universities & Colleges & students
-Target
-Hilton Hotels
_Marriott Hotels
-Disney Destinations
-American Express
-Ameriprise Financial
-Brookstone
-VISA
-Borders
4) March 29th -EU Parliament's computers
5) March 29th-Australian parliament's computers
6) March 27th- MYSQL -Oracle product used on Windows machines
7) March 25th -RIAA {Recording Industry Association of America]
8) March 24th- New Zealand Dept of Internal Affairs
9) March 24th- Trip Advisor [they know your travel plans & itineraries!]
10) EU Commission, & EU {European Commission] External Action Service
11) European Union in Brussels
12) March 17th- RSA\EMC 'security' firm that issues SecurID authorization token that generate one time passwords for sensitive /confidential accts including governments, banks, Paypal; financial services
13) March 17th- Hollywood
14) March 7th- French Finance Ministry
15) March 4th-South Korea
16) March 3rd-Wordpress blogs
17) Feb 24th- Westboro Baptist Church
18) Feb 22nd-Voice of America
19) Feb 18th-Canada's Treasury,Finance Dept & Defense Research & Development
20) Feb 11- Iran's government
21) Feb 6th-HBGary Federal in Washington DC supposedly a security company for US gov't but a scam;
22) Feb 5th- NASDAQ ;
23) Utah,Michigan,Albania, Italy, US Army's Communications & Electronic Command Center;Singhania Univ in India
24) Egypt's cabinet;Ministry of interior,Ministry of Communications, & Information Technology
25) Jan 2nd- Tunisia's government.
26) iTunes
27) Apple app store
28) Paypal.
The lessons to be learned are:
1)do not give your home address, email address, telephone number to retail stores or add them to any site not secure with encryption [which means most sites on web--few are encrypted].
2) Delete your Facebook acct since it gives your info to the US gov't,the many marketing companies and virtually every Facebook customer,and the Democratic Party.
3) Remember Paypal's security questions are not asked generally and the allow criminals to access your acct with your email address & telephone number. The security questions are to fool you into thinking they are secure.
4) Remember iTunes captures your card info WHETHER OR NOT you are signed into your iTunes acct and applies the info where they want too--> NOT secure.
5) Remember that unless a site is encrypting your info if it is intercepted by any of the 2 billion people who have internet, it is in plain text--human readable and therfore usuable by criminals.
6) Remember that every university & college in the US and most abroad have what is required mandatory 'computer labs' that have no faculty in attendance, no rules, no ethics training in not stealing or breaking into computers, and no punishments for the students who do those things or for the so-called supervising faculty either.
7) Remember that there are at least two annual events whe big computer companies PAY people to break into computers to supposedly learn from them and then publish their names as the 'winner' of the contest,thus providing rewards,pay & public recognition for breaking into other's computers.
This info is intended to help you citizens,subjects in other nations wise up to the realities of using computers.
Gloria Poole;@my apt in Missouri; owner words that WORK missions;10:51am;6th April-2011
Update 7 -April-2011@8:08 am after reading today's news in the money.cnn.com technology section. Add these companies to the list of those whose databases were hacked into recently:
-RitzCarlton
-JCrew
- Ann Taylor
-Victoria's Secret
-Verizon
-Bebe
-Eddie Bauer
-LaCoste
-1800Flowers
-TD Waterhouse
-Beachbody
-AT & T
-Universal Citi Card
Please remember that criminals would not risk federal prison [cybercrime is a FEDERAL crime] to get worthless information. Though banks, financial companies, and marketing companies for retailers have tried to downplay the risk to consumers, don't be deceived by that. Think how you sign into online bank or financial accts--what login info? Think about how the US government and any government could find out your name , address and location of your email if they want too which means that criminal hackers could also do that. Think about how the US gov't allows telephone companies to allow 'third-party billing' and watch your phone bills for scams added to your bill. There are many ways that criminals could use email addresses long with your name and address and or telephone number e.g. they could apply for credit accounts with that info, or steal your name and accounts or hijacked your postal mail. I know from first-hand experience those events are possible because they have happened to me personally.
Don't be fooled by criminals just because they are on the web. Use common sense in answering phone calls, or responding to anything online. If you have any doubts about an email, delete it. If you find it to be an attempt to steal your info, report it to your isp and maybe the local law enforcement or FBI depending upon location of the sender of it. Do not open links in your email as a general rule--write down the info and type it into the browser to view it. Remember there is malicious code that when opened in your email could reveal your email login and password info to the criminals. Remember that some computers' operating systems store your password and all a criminal has to do to find it, is get past the firewall and know where to look. Look at your settings and set your computers to never save passwords and to delete the cache when browser closes; and to use https where possible. When logging into secure sites [https] make sure a golden padlock is showing as locked before logging in. If it seems someone is fighting with you for control of the mouse log out! Quick! And shut down your computer. Delete the downloads to make sure no script [hidden download] is waiting there; delete your browsing history so criminals won't know you logged into your online bank acct when they break through firewall. And block javascript,popups,cookies and plug-ins as a general rule,only enabling them specifically when needed for known trusted sites. Remember that what you add as 'trusted' gets past the built in firewall and may have bad stuff piggy-backing onto it into your computer. Criminals on the internet are rampant--the sheer numbers of them overwhelm Police and cybercrime units so you sort of have to police your own computer. Pay attention to the tech sections of the news who tend to report cyber-attacks and during those times, don't log in to online accts except in emergency.
This advice is from my personal experience gained in 20 yrs of using computers to write, create websites, and personal study of computers' OS, and security {I.T. news etc] and some official study with Microsoft seminars and at University of Georgia years ago, I am not an I T expert but I have learned much the hard way from the school of hard knocks as it is sometimes called. It is intended to help you but I am not certified as computer expert or security guru, so keep that in mind.
Gloria Poole;@my apt in Missouri; 7th April-2011@8:30am
Update2 on 8-April-2011@10:12am:
I read last evening in the BBC news that the database for the well-known retailer Marks & Spencer was also broken into recently along with those companies already included.
Also, please read this blog http://prolife-nurse.blogspot.com for today's entry--it matters .
And though this is off topic, I think all Press writers who attempt to modify societal standards by writing op-ed pieces disguised as news about how it immorality is becoming acceptable in the UK or anywhere, do a huge disservice to the world and to human relationships. Because it's a lie. Women have not changed that much over time. Most women when married [and I think men too, though I am a woman writer] do not want their spouses sleeping around. And most women do not want to sleep with [and all that involves] with men who are sleeping with every woman in town. The medical implications and risks of that are tremendous. Most people in monogamous relationships want fidelity,trust,and mutually exclusive relationships. Sleeping around is not acceptable whether married or unmarried.

ArchBishops Conducting Royal Wedding: R U Christian?

I am writing this to the ArchBishop Rowan Williams and the other two ArchBishops who are conducting/participating in the royal wedding of Prince William with Miss kate Middleton. I read in the BBC and other news stories that Prince William's wedding will be videographed and sold on iTunes! I think that is not only tacky but slimey. And I know it is a violation of the very words of JESUS, who overturned the moneychangers' tables in the Temple, and [quoting KJV] ""said unto them that sold"..."take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise". John 2:10,King James Holy Bible.
The fact that THREE Archbishops of the Church of England are apparently willing to throw away the words of JESUS to accomodate money-hungry people of any class, shows me that the Church of England has lost its virtue and its relationship to THE LIVING LORD JESUS. Will you sell out JESUS for public favor? And if that willingnessof Prince William to sell to different bidders, his birthright status to cheapen it, making he & Kate nothing more and nothing less than TV personalities which are a dime a dozen, is indicative of Prince William's attitude toward his royal duties and the world's opinion of him as future "Defender of the [Christian] faith" then I think it is best if Uk becomes a republic and does away with Monarch altogether. The world does not need any more fake Christians as leaders.
The fake Christian Obama has by himself done much damage to the world's Christians, and to the secular world's concept of Christianity.
Repent for the Kingdom of GOD is at hand, is the message of JESUS.
Gloria Poole;@my apt in Missouri;9:17am;27/March/2011

First Shot of WWIII ????

Quote:"Fighter aircraft from France, Britain and the United Arab Emirates converged on bases in and around Italy to begin operations over Libya under the command and control of the United States at its naval base in Naples."
And this quote:
"In what appeared to be a desperate attempt to avert military action, Gaddafi sent two letters to international leaders, according to deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim, who read the letters to journalists. One was a warm, conciliatory note to Obama, and the other was a sharply worded, menacing message to the United Nations, France and Britain.
To Obama, he wrote: “If Libya and the US enter into a war you will always remain my son, and I have love for you.” Libya is battling al-Qaeda, he said, seeking Obama’s advice. “How would you behave so that I can follow your example?” he asked.
In the other letter, addressed to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of France and Britain, he warned that the region would be destabilized if they pursued strikes against Libya. “You will regret it if you take a step to intervene in our internal affairs,” he wrote."
And those events led up too:
report from "TRIPOLI, Libya — A French fighter jet fired on a Libyan military vehicle Saturday in the first reported offensive action by an international mission to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya." Read the entire explanatory article in Washingon Post;2:06pm;19/March/2011.
I am adding these quotes here to comment on them. The obvious remark that has everyone in the US's attention is that warm-fuzzy from Gaddafi to Obama. Maybe that is why, showing complete disdain for the mess America is in, Obama took his family and ran to Brazil. Does he look worried or concerned about the mess his lack of leadership has caused in America? Or about the lack of response of Gaddafi to his 'warnings' as the news put it? He looked sort of like a man on his 7th or 8th vacation [he takes a quarterly trip to coincide with college quarter breaks]. Gaddafi, remember what you wrote that you wanted to follow Obama's example? So get it done--follow Obama and flee to place of refuge and set the people in Libya free. Go have a beer with Obama in Brazil--it's his method of reconcilialiation as the US observed during the Harvard fiasco when that Gates man there thought laws did not apply to him, and Obama thought so too, and interfered into States' affairs.
And as for French President Sarkozy taking the lead to rout Gaddafi, well, he's a hero to the people there, no doubt.
And my last comment on this news story is, does Obama seriously think the US's military can fight a war in 3 separate locations: Iraq,Afghanistan AND Libya? If so he's been imbibing some sort of elixir from some la-la-land.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri;2:26pm;19?March.2011
PS I am aware that by writing this the US Pentagon will launch an attack against my privately owned and paid for by me personal computer declaring me a [political] enemy of the Obama-reelection-campaign. But oh well, it comes with the territory of trying to cause the people of the Unites States to THINK [and therefore vote him out of office.]

This article I quoted from is in the Washington Post online at the moment.
Update @ 3:00 and a bit off topic but not really since cyberattacks are being used increasingly against US citizens for political and religious speech is this. The number 1 reason cybercrime has become rampant is because computer companies GIVE AWARDS and cash for breaking into other's computers. I Quote:
"The annual security competition allows researchers to win any systems that they successfully compromise, and also awards them cash rewards if those security flaws are still present in the latest version of the software."
In article : "Pwn2Own day 2: iPhone, Blackberry beaten;Chrome Firfox no-shows' by Peter Bright
in Ars Technica.

Remember that U S gov't controls all computers

In this past week, both of my new computers were attacked by the US government because I complained about Obama's killing-of-innocents-in-the-womb, and because I called him a pervert on a blog because he hired one of that evil sort to make his private appointments, thus apparently thinking he could defy all the Commandments of GOD [read Leviticus 18:22 KJV and Romans chapter one KJV and Exodus ch 20, KJV] and thinking he will rub GOD's nose in the Commandments of GOD. I sincerely pray he burns in hell and the sooner the better.

Having written that, I want to tell you what I learned by having worked through the mechanisms the US government uses to attack computers illegally; so you are informed as to some of their methods, so you will be on guard against cyberattack by the US government. I am a US citizen and not charged with any crime or guilty of any crime; but in the eyes of those who kill for money, I am their worst enemy [because I write often that it is a sin against GOD to kill innocents and that sodomy and lesbianism is abomination to GOD.] The devil and the followers of the devil hate GOD and also hate the followers of GOD. I am Christian. For other verses about human beings start with these : John 14:6, John 10:10, Matthew 18:14; Jeremiah 1:5, and also read these websites of mine :http://www.earthlink.net/~prolife-activist/ and http://www.earthlink.net/!vote-prolife/ for more scriptures and reasons.

Back to the topic of how the Obama administration attacks computers:
1) they 'jam' the signals with radar via the Pentagon; which scrambles the code that tells the computer what to do. If you are paying close attention, when every thing on your computer--keyboard, apps,mouse,browser freeze and do nothing, unplug your computer instantly and disconnect from your isp immediately. The War Powers Act is abused against US citizens to try to prevent negative press of either H Clinton or Obama. Those evil twins abuse all power to try to censor/suppress/oppress the prolifers, the Christians who are born again, and the true republicans who do not want communism as government.
2) They have taken control of Facebook, [through $$$$ on stock exchange when it went public] and they took control of Microsoft years ago via the anti-trust fake lawsuit against Microsoft that had end result of US government getting a 'backdoor' into EVERY computer or device that Microsoft makes anywhere in the world, in exchange for allowing Microsoft to continue their monopoly on computers . And as the news reported about 10 days ago, Obama the devil, met with Zuckerberg from Facebook [no doubt doing the bidding of Libya's Gadhafi a fellow African ] and with Steve Jobs of Apple, and with Eric Schmidt , current CEO of Google to find hw to capture those computers and gain access to total computer control worldwide. This was not a coincidence but directly relevant to how Facebook, Twitter & Google [saynow, and speak2tweet] were helpful in revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Kuwait, and spreading across Arabic nations to set the people free. Liberty of the citizens is Obama's worst nightmare.
3) And dozens of ads appearing trying to get all corporations to move their content to the "cloud". Read into that-- instead of cloud substitute the US government's storage that they control the key too. IF you put your content on any cloud [remote from your computer and not on a physical device you have possession and control of, when Obama wants to suppress what you read or write from anywhere, your info is all 'in the cloud' for the U S government's [Homeland Hackers, Hillary's hackers, team-Obama Hackers] to access through the backdoor.
4) They abuse the War Powers Act to control /suppress/control virtually EVERY cell phone carrier in the world that does business in the US with even one customer. IF you saw that movie that was showing around Dec '08 that showed your cell phone tracking your every move and being controlled by government, that is right on target.
5) They use Microsoft to 'lockdown' the computers of the political enemies of either Obama or Clinton through their built-in lockdown {Windows Defender which really only defends Obama and Hillary's political careers] or through the built-in kill switch for the software you bought. Remember when you buy a Microsoft computer you never really own it. Microsoft allows you to use it only as long a you do not actively oppose Obama or H Clinton in public places like blogs, websites, or twitter. They get the automated software attack system that Windows builds into every computer to trun against the computer you bought by causing you as owner to download a corrupt file [with foreign language on it, or evil words in the code] then it tricks Windows into attacking your computer. Mission accomplished by Homeland cyberattack against political enemies of Obama the communist. They recently attacked Google apps via the same methods.
6) The US government 's cyberattack team [Homeland fake* security] creates/writes malicious code regularly and sends it agist computers of political enemies. They also use it to attack the computer run infrastructure of bridges, airplanes,water supply, heating, oil furnaces, [why your bill escalates constantly] , meters that measure gasoline, [transportation] , trains, airports,and other governments.
7) When you pay your bills online, the government knows the details of your bank accounts and your transactions as you do them. If you oppose either H Clinton or Obama they will attack your bank accounts and hold up payments you sent being paid, for any purpose that they think will hinder you.
8) They insert "hot keys' that distort your words as you type them to try to make it appear to your readers that you were sloppy or not paying attention, thus attempting to discredit you before your readers. My 5 WEEK old computer changed one word three times yesterday. I changed it twice to correct word and it changed it to wrong word.
9) Mobile devices [cell phones, tablets, laptops, netbooks] have a built in controller device that the government [or cell phone carrier when the government strong arms them into it] uses to drain the battery on your device almost instantly. It is called battery composite file. It sucks the battery dry of power so instead of hours of use, you get minutes .
10) If you have wired dsl, they get your connection number from your telephone company . The telephone companies are totally "regulated' --read controlled-- by the federal government, also through War Powers Act that's main purpose is controlling, spying on the citizens in order to rig elections. They add on excessive taxes [my $59 month plan has about $20 tax added] to try to price it out of the affordability of the so-called poor and to make it only available to the elite with real, private service.
My recommendations are and I admit they are not fool-proof nor as a computer expert would write them but as a citizen who has endured repeated attacks against my computers since 1991 because I write that killing of innocents in the womb is a sin and has to be a crime also. For starters,
1) have more than one method and more than one device to connect if internet connectivity is crucial to your life.
2) Have different carriers on your cell devices and different operating systems, and different computer companies.
3) Have internet companies and cell phones with HQ located outside the US if possible [or with branches outside the US] .
4) Learn enough about computer code to recognize what is going on.
5) Realize that most of the financial 'meltdown' occurred because online banking is NOT safe and money was sucked out of accounts by criminals and one of them is in the White House.
*Footnote; it is fake because it searches, suppresses, attacks the US citizens who are political enemies of Obama regime and does nothing to protect the innocent in America from harm or death-in-the-womb.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri; 9:39am;10-March-2011

The wrath of GOD on Obama & his staff promoting sin

It is written, "for the wrath of GOD is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of GOD is manifest in them; for GOD hath revealed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and GODHEAD; so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew GOD; they glorified HIM not as GOD, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became as fools; and changed the the glory of the incorruptible GOD into an image made like to corruptible man; and to birds and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore GOD also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves; who changed the truth of GOD into a lie [ an aside:for themselves only--they cannot make GOD a liar], and worshipped and served the creature [another aside: the devil] more than THE CREATOR, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause GOD gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which i against nature; and likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly [dictionary defines as indecent or improper] and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due them [their punishment]. And even as they did not like to retain GOD in their knowledge, GOD gave them over to a reprobate mind [aside: defined by dictionary as depraved & foreordained to eternal damnation by GOD] to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness,fornication,wickedness,covetousness,maliciousness, full of envy,murder, debate,deceit,malignity,whisperers, backbiters,haters of GOD, despiteful, proud,boasters,inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable,unmerciful; who KNOWING the Judgement of GOD, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them."
Romans 1:18-32, King James Holy Bible
Posted in bold letters as reminder of GOD's words condemning homosexuality and idolatry and as warning that they cannot defy GOD. Read last sentence in passage of scripture again which refers to physical death & spiritual death of those guilty of sodomy abomination & lesbian sin.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri, 1:10pm;23-Feb-2011

Maybe the method Assange Used to reveal State Secrets

http://www.networkintegritysystems.com/?gclid=CJWbos24l6cCFQxl7AodiTyFeg/

gives info on "interceptor "used by US gov't..which 'has been deployed since 2003 within the Intelligence community and in support of numerous facilities and installations across the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and all branches of the United States military." Shockingly, it says it is not encrypted and does not require ComSec authorization! Called Siprnet
20/Feb/2011@1:18pm

Could this be the reason Julian Assange was able to get info from State Dept--no encryption or authorization required?
Asking--anyone verify??
Gloria Poole; 1:23pm;20/Feb/2011'at my apt in Missouri

Google,Facebook,Apple Gurus summoned to White House????

ABC news article today says Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg who are the heads of Apple Computers, Google and Facebook respectively, have been summoned to the White House. What gives? That sort of sounds like Obama trying to capture control of those entities for his use in his reelection campaign, or for gaining control of those software /computers for control/domination of internet. As you might know when the US Dept of Justice anti-trust dept sued Microsoft for violation of anti-trust laws years ago, the deal they made to let Microsoft continue was that Microsoft creates a 'backdoor' in every operating system they make for law enforcement to snoop,spy on citizens without having to get a warrant. Is that the plan now for Facebook,Google and Apple too? 1984 [book] warnings are here America, when private individuals are summoned to the White House to give an account to the President directly.
That is a very suspicious event! It does not bode well for civil liberties in the US.
Remember that Obama was raised in the Muslim Indonesia where Muslims are majority. Muslim leaders are despots it seems according to the people in Iran,Bahrain,Libya, and Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Ye men. Is Obama about to try to shut down the internet? He could say he is Christian but his actions are not Christ-like since he tried to legalize abominable sins of sodomy and abortion; and he has caused the murders of millions of innocents in the womb since his fake reform of health care started paying for abortion through subsidies and freeing up other money and his political support of killing. He is Muslim not Christian. JESUS does not condone killing of innocents [read Matthew chapter 18 KJV] nor sodomy nor any sin.
Also there was an article about an event that is planned to disrupt satellites and radio today and tomorrow possibly. Does anyone think that is a coincidence? I think they blew up a satellite to disrupt radio [wifi] in some countries including US.
Gloria Poole;10:28am;17/Feb/2011;at my apt in Missouri