Tabnapping: the hot new thing in phishing attacks
A new kind of phishing attack dubbed “tabnapping” is targeting users of Firefox who love to keep browser tabs open.
Michael Becker
Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.
I want one or several
This little gadget, the U-Socket, was previewed at this year’s MacWorld, and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it.
Virology via video game and Pac-Man the time waster
A UK virology network has put out a video game to help people understand why flu pandemics are so rare, and Google Pac-Man wasted nearly 4.82 million hours of productivity.
Earl Vining: Filling in holes
It was the winter of 1950. Earl Vining had only been in Korea for a few months, and already he’d been wounded twice.
“When they sent me back again, I knew I was going to get killed,” Vining, now 78, said.
Then, one day, a lieutenant popped his head into the hospital tent and asked the question that Vining credits with saving his life:
“Does anybody know how to run a bulldozer?”
Technology cuts win Montana cost-savings suggestion contest
Delaying purchases of new computers and reducing the number of state wireless devices topped a list of the public’s suggestions for saving the state of Montana money.
Behind the scenes on the Backroads beat: Learning Spanish
I just got back from an interview for my next Backroads story, due out Monday. This will be the third Backroads in a row to profile a local veteran — the series is a lead-in to Memorial Day at the end of the month.
I interviewed Earl Vining, a 78-year-old veteran of both Korea and Vietnam. Earl is a talker, and reporters love talkers. The problem, though, is that you wind up with more material than you can possibly fit into the column inches allotted to your story.
I guess that’s why the journalism gods created blogs.
Anyway, here’s a story that Earl told me during our interview today.
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A movie studio look at California
A map of geographical facsimiles in California — places that look like other places for movies
Apparently, Microsoft is still trying to get people to use Hotmail
Microsoft is trying to revamp its veteran Hotmail system by adding new features, but will it be enough to overcome the service’s major image problem?
The little blue rubber bands that bind us
Dan Boyce is buried in rubber bands, courtesy of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
Montana Attorney General warns of new robo-call phishing scam
The Montana Attorney General’s office warns that Montanans may be targeted by a new phishing phone scam. The scammers’ robo-call happened to call, of all people, the Office of Consumer Protection’s lead attorney Jim Molloy.