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Job searches may not be safe

July 16th, 2008 - By Greg George · fraud

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Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
As the market gets tighter and more companies layoff employees, everyone is now looking online for jobs. And why not when you have sites like Monster.com that has virtually millions of postings across all job descriptions? While these sites do have many reputable companies looking for employees or consultants, there are [...]

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MySpace users getting hit with spam

July 15th, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology

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 By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources
ItWorld.com is reporting that spammers are taking advantage of the MySpace development kit to blast their junk to users. The original tools allowed developers to send out promotional messages through applications as well as sending out large numbers of messages to those in user’s email list. To stop spammers from taking [...]

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Second Podcast!

July 7th, 2008 - By Greg George · Uncategorized

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This is the second podcast from Spinal Cord Resources Network. It is all about the Family Cafe and includes several interviews of companies that were at the conference. THe file is in mp3 format to make it easy to use in any music player.
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Law enforcement now performs all PC repairs

July 2nd, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology, The Mouse Roars

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 By Greg George
 CEO
 Spinal Cord Resources Network
The Texas legislature just passed a law that all computer repairs and help must be done by a person that has a private investigator license. In order to get a PI license you must either go through a 3 year college level degree program or spend three years as an [...]

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MySpace development kit used by spammers

July 1st, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology

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By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources
ItWorld.com is reporting that spammers are taking advantage of the MySpace development kit to blast their junk to users. The original tools allowed developers to send out promotional messages through applications as well as sending out large numbers of messages to those in user’s email list. To stop spammers from taking [...]

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First podcast!

June 11th, 2008 - By Greg George · Uncategorized

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 The first podcast for Spinal Cord Resources is available. It is in mp3 format so everyone should be able to listen to it.

 
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iTunes under phishing attacks

May 21st, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology

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By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Mailboxes have started to fill up with requests to go to a website and verify your iTunes account which has been under attack. According to the email, there have been too many attempts to access the account and that you will be highly restricted until you type in your iTunes [...]

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Cell connections blasting past land lines

May 20th, 2008 - By Greg George · Uncategorized

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By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Top Tech News has an interesting story about telephone use in the US. Up to this point more people used land lines rather then cell connections. All homes and businesses have been wired for telephone as well as Internet connectivity. Cell phones have been slowly eating away at the number [...]

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Online data backups are NOT a breeze

May 10th, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology, Uncategorized

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By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Online backup services are cropping up all over the Internet. They promise to make backups easier to do and storage and maintenance is all handled by the hosting company. This sounds like a real answer to the gigabytes that are never backed up on personal computers everywhere. Those of us [...]

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Password use on the Internet

April 22nd, 2008 - By Greg George · Technology

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By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
The Internet has changed dramatically over the last few years from just viewing websites to using virtual applications in your browser. To keep you data safe sites have created logins and password entry points for each of their users. Virtual email is a good example of where the Internet is [...]

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