SplashTravel 1.5 released for iPhone

Fixes a bug where trip details were lost after a reset or force close

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Description

SplashTravel is the ultimate travel companion application. SplashTravel combines four travel apps - Flight Tracker, Expense, Timing, and Converters - into one mega app for one mini price.

**Compatible with iOS 4 and iPhone 4**

SplashTravel features:
* a Trip Organizer for Air, Hotel & Car reservations
* a Flight Tracker with gate, plane, and status info
* a Unit & Currency Converter
* a Tip Calculator
* a World Clock
* a Time Calculator
* a Packing List
* an Expense Report tool
* lists of country codes, clothing size charts, etc.

SplashTravel brings all these travel utilities together under one little icon, saving real estate both on your screen and in your mind! And for one low price!

We also added the powerful Trip organizer and Home screen features to bring it all together in a cohesive user interface.

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How to create a 'super password'- SplashID can generate random long passwords

The 12-character era of online security is upon us, according to a report published this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The researchers used clusters of graphics cards to crack eight-character passwords in less than two hours.

But when the researchers applied that same processing power to 12-character passwords, they found it would take 17,134 years to make them snap.

"The length of your password in some cases can dictate the vulnerability," said Joshua Davis, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

It's hard to say what will happen in the future, but for now, 12-character passwords should be the standard, said Richard Boyd, a senior research scientist who also worked on the project.

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iTunes PayPal Web Scam: Formal Solution suggested as negligence robs customers

How important is it in todays web world to be prudent ? -- it costs not to be careful.

Read the article below:

One victim rues, “My iTunes account just got hacked and someone made about $700 worth of purchases. I contacted Paypal and they said Apple has gotten so many attacks since June, they can barely keep up with reporting them all!”

Solution: Though, Paypal is unwilling to share details of the hacking, iTunes has made a formal statement, “If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about cancelling the card and/or issuing a chargeback for any unauthorised transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately.”

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Interesting: Price To Pay For Social Networking – Identity Theft

An article from: http://www.watblog.com

Social networking is a craze for everyone in the country. These days, when you meet someone new, usually the first question is, ” Are you on Facebook / Twitter?” (Orkut might be a part of the question only if your new acquaintances are unfamiliar with social networking faux pas) LinkedIn is another social networking website which may get a mention if the meeting is on a professional front. Some of us might deny it, but such websites have become an important part of our lives for the sole reason of networking; be it with friends, family, or people in your field of work. But what is the price we are paying for putting all our information on these websites?

The answer to the question above is identity theft. The most recent victim was Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen. Mr. Sen is just one more in the long list of celebrities and high-profile individuals in India who have had to face identity theft on social networking websites. Another famous personality that comes to mind is film director Aditya Chopra, whose fake account was created on Facebook, and the perpetrator was luring young starlets to meet him with promises of roles in his movies.

What are social networking websites doing about this?

Twitter has been testing verification on a few selected accounts by asking the user to give a set of email addresses and contact numbers along with the same of others who will be able to verify your information. Once an account is verified, the account is then tagged as “Verified”. Some of the Indian personalities with a verified account include Priyanka Chopra, Genelia Dsouza, Pritish Nandy, Shashi Tharoor, and Lalit Modi, to name a few.

Facebook has nothing of the sort in place, with the only security measure being a warning during sign up which tells users that the site is not responsible for the information they put up on their page (which is OF COURSE read by one and all).

On LinkedIn, a member can flag an account as fake and the site will take appropriate action.

Even politicians are not free from this, with former cabinet minister and BJP MP, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, becoming a victim with a fake Facebook profile created using his name.

As much as social networking sites are important to us, they can cause most of us a lot of trouble. Will these websites ever be able to comes up with a foolproof plan to counter identity theft? What do you think?

Good security practices for online banking- helium.com

These practices can extend to any kind of password management online. SplashID is a great example for password security- Unbreakable AES and 256-bit Blowfish encryption provides proven protection for safe password management; secure field masking offers additional protection for sensitive data like passwords; automatic password generator feature creates un-guessable passwords and prevents the security risk of using the same passwords repeatedly.

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Everyone who uses the Internet should be aware of the importance of protecting their data and preventing others from gaining access to passwords and other login details. This goes doubly for internet banking as the consequences of being compromised can be all the more severe when it’s your bank accounts that the fraudster could access.

There are various protocols that should be observed to ensure that you can benefit from the many advantages that online banking offers without suffering the heartbreak of having your funds cleared out.

Creation of effective security credentials:

The starting point of Internet banking normally involves the creation of a password and various other login details. It stands to reason that it’s important that you create passwords and passcodes that aren’t easily guessable by other people. For example, don’t choose your debit card PIN, year of birth, or consecutive numbers (such as 1234) as your passcode and don’t choose the name of your favourite sports team as your password.

Internet security experts usually advise that passwords contain a mix of letters and numbers and you can also employ upper and lower casing to add an extra level of security. There is a balance to be struck, however, between security and usability. A password of H7fg23Pwe might be very difficult for a fraudster to guess but it will probably also be next to impossible for you to remember.

You should also avoid reusing passwords that you use for other websites. The more places that you register your password with, the more opportunities there will be for that password to become compromised and, of course, the more severe the consequences may be.

Avoiding having your security credentials compromised:

Having created your login passcodes and passwords, it’s obviously important that you ensure that you’re the only person who knows them. To safeguard this, it is recommended that you don’t write down your login credentials.

You also must avoid telling other people your login details. A really key thing to note here is that your bank will never ask you to divulge those sensitive security credentials to a member of staff. You will only ever be asked to provide them via the login screens of the online banking site.

Most people, by now, have heard of phishing, which is where fraudsters try to trick people into divulging their security details. This is usually attempted by sending an e-mail, purporting to be from your Bank which asks you to click through to a web page that will ask you to divulge your online banking credentials. When you received such e-mails, you should simply delete them and you should avoid clicking on any links contained within them. Similarly, if you receive an unexpected phone call from someone purporting to be from your bank, then you should refuse any requests to reveal for online banking security details.

Read more: http://www.helium.com/items/1927127-safe-security-for-online-banking

13 Things An Identity Thief Won't Tell You

Credit to: http://www.rd.com

1. Watch your back. In line at the grocery store, I’ll hold my phone like I’m looking at the screen and snap your card as you’re using it. Next thing you know, I’m ordering things online—on your dime.

2. That red flag tells the mail carrier—and me—that you have outgoing mail. And that can mean credit card numbers and checks I can reproduce.

3. Check your bank and credit card balances at least once a week. I can do a lot of damage in the 30 days between statements.

4. In Europe, credit cards have an embedded chip and require a PIN, which makes them a lot harder to hack. Here, I can duplicate the magnetic stripe technology with a $50 machine.

5. If a bill doesn’t show up when it’s supposed to, don’t breathe a sigh of relief. Start to wonder if your mail has been stolen.

6. That’s me driving through your neighborhood at 3 a.m. on trash day. I fill my trunk with bags of garbage from different houses, then sort later.

7. You throw away the darnedest things—preapproved credit card applications, old bills, expired credit cards, checking account deposit slips, and crumpled-up job or loan applications with all your personal information.

8. If you see something that looks like it doesn’t belong on the ATM or sticks out from the card slot, walk away. That’s the skimmer I attached to capture your card information and PIN.

9. Why don’t more of you call 888-5-OPTOUT to stop banks from sending you preapproved credit offers? You’re making it way too easy for me.

10. I use your credit cards all the time, and I never get asked for ID. A helpful hint: I’d never use a credit card with a picture on it.

11. I can call the electric company, pose as you, and say, “Hey, I thought I paid this bill. I can’t remember—did I use my Visa or MasterCard? Can you read me back that number?” I have to be in character, but it’s unbelievable what they’ll tell me.

12. Thanks for using your debit card instead of your credit card. Hackers are constantly breaking into retail databases, and debit cards give me direct access to your banking account.

13. Love that new credit card that showed up in your mailbox. If I can’t talk someone at your bank into activating it (and I usually can), I write down the number and put it back. After you’ve activated the card, I start using it.

Use passwords of at least 12 characters to protect against hacking

Brute-force attacks are now much more of a threat to short passwords, given the increasing computational prowess of computers, says research scientists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. In a nutshell, a password consisting of just seven characters is slated to be "hopelessly inadequate"--even if numbers and non-standard symbols are used. Their recommendation, therefore, is to use passwords of at least 12 characters.

One culprit would be the increasing availability of high-powered graphics processing units (GPU); today's top GPU offers about two teraflops of parallel processing powers. As a comparison, senior research scientist Richard Boyd noted that the world's supercomputer in the year 2000 yielded a computing performance of just slightly more than seven teraflops--and cost $110 million.

Joshua Davis, another research scientist involved in the project noted that length is a major factor to protect against brute force approaches. He said, "A computer keyboard contains 95 characters, and every time you add another character, your protection goes up exponentially, by 95 times."

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http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/use-passwords-least-12-characters-protect-hacking/2010-08-17

Crazy Cathode iPad TV Takes Us From Science Fiction To Reality

An interesting article I read on the net.

When we stop for a moment and look around, it’s easy to see that we are living in the future – today. I can remember watching Captain Picard of the Enterprise playing around with a small touch screen device, kind of like an iPad. Today, most all of us have a similar touch device, whether iPad or mobile phone.

Back in the early 1990s, the tech was not yet available, so the prop looked like a kids toy: a flat screen with a colorful graphic on it. It only took another 20 years to make the PADD, or Personal Access Display Device, a reality. Next we’re waiting for Marty McFly’s hoverboard.

All credit to http://www.crunchgear.com