bout airplane tickest a while ago…..great price
Day before try to get 2 seats together  online at check in….

That did not happen, normal not a big deal.
but this time the wife is in a walking boot for her ankle and the kid always flys next to the wife.

Security at the airport was a breeze for everyone including the wife in her ankle boot contraption.
security made sure that the kid did not go wondering off well mom got scanned.
I get to deal with the 10 little gray bins and getting them thru the xray thing
as odd as it sounds it was like they wanted to help….got to love that.

Get to the gate wait for the gate folks to get there.
Now the gate folks had always been very helpful  for me

So I know they could easily fix the seating issue for me…..

WRONG
“the flight is full figure it out yourself when you get on the plane” 
The message from the gate folks

it was like they were more concerned about themselves then helping me an mine.
no even an earl boarding invite….wife in a walking boot for her ankle injure and 7 year old boy….

so we wait and yet more self involved airline folks come and go.

they open the plane for boarding…

final yet another group of airline folks…
about half way thu boarding we get invited to board after the wife hobbles around in the waiting line.

I new face from airline….who had just helped a 13 year old traveling alone… was the yes please go bored voice of reason

we go down the empty gate ramp took like 5 minutes down hill walking slow….
get on the plane and there are people sitting in all of our seats….
kid starts crying… have i mentioned yet that the wife “does not like to fly “motion sickens””

get the tickets from the wife…
kick an old couple out of my seat and the 13 year old seat….
then the 13 year old says I’ll change with you..

So the the wife and the kids get 2 seats together…..finally
the 13 year old stranger gets a window seat beind me…

Oh yeah forgot to mention the flight crew losing it because we had stopped anyone from boarding  the plane.
that kind of happens on the small jets  when you are in row 3 waiting for some folks to move out of your seats….

longer story short..

flight was great 20 minutes early kind of great.

moral of the story you should always call the airplane phone support folks to fix seating issues and wait on hold for an hour to talk to 
SAM “shrewas”  who think that the yankees are a florida baseball team……

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Over on the post “Facebook spam prevention scam spreading like wildfire • The Register” contains this text:

Facebook spam prevention scam spreading like wildfire Alert Print Post comment Retweet Facebook Social media worm d’jour By John Leyden • Get more from this author

Posted in Spam, 12th May 2011 10:22 GMT Free whitepaper – BitDefender Business Solutions v3.5 The growing prevalence of junk messages on Facebook is been used to bait a new scam doing the rounds on the social network.

Prospective marks in receipt of the fraudulent messages are invited to ‘verify’ their account in order to ‘prevent spam’. Recipients who respond to the message by clicking on a link end up sharing it on their wall as well as spreading highly obfuscated JavaScript.

‘With all the unexpected Sharing going on, this message has spread like wild-fire,’ warns net security firm Sophos. ‘Instead of preventing spam, this par”

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Over on the post “Lab Matters – At the Halfway Mark: Malware Predictions in 2011 – Securelist” contains this text

In this newest edition of Lab Matters, Director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team Costin Raiu offers some predictions about what we will see in the second half of 2011. Raiu’s predictions include a surge in malicious activity on mobile device app stores.

 

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Over on the post “Don’t fall for ‘First Exposure: iPhone 5′ Facebook scam | InSecurity Complex – CNET News” contains this text:

MAY 11, 2011 5:55 PM PDT Don’t fall for ‘First Exposure: iPhone 5′ Facebook scam by Elinor Mills Print E-mail 4 comments

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If you see this post on Facebook, don’t click on it. Facebook users are being duped into unwittingly spreading spam by clicking on what looks like a link to news entitled ‘First Exposure: iPhone 5.’ A version of the scam, exploiting peoples’ interest in the next-generation iPhone, went around Facebook earlier this month, and it’s back today with minor changes. The scam starts when you see someone in your social network comment on a link in a post that looks like it leads to a news story about the iPhone 5 at a Web address of ‘greatlakesnews.info.’ Clicking on the link takes you to a different Web page,”

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Over on the post “Newly emerged banking Trojan challenges ZeuS-SpyEye duopoly • The Register” contains this text:

The Sunspot Trojan has already been linked to instances of fraudulent losses, according to transaction security firm Trusteer. The Windows-based malware is designed to carry out man-in-the-browser attacks, including web injections, page-grabbing, key-logging and screen shooting (a feature that captures screenshots of the location of a mouse as a user types his/her password on a virtual keyboard).

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Over on the post “Unfollowed Me rogue application spreads virally on Twitter | Naked Security” contains this text:

“Unfollowed Me rogue application spreads virally on Twitter Hi there! If you’re new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates. X

 

by Graham Cluley on April 19, 2011 | Be the first to comment FILED UNDER: Featured, Social networks, Spam Once again Twitter users are finding themselves hit by a fast-infecting attack, more commonly encountered by their Facebook-using cousins: a rogue application spreading virally across the network.

Thousands of Twitter users have fallen into the trap of allowing rogue third-party applications access their Twitter accounts, believing that it would tell them how many people have unfollowed them.”

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Over on the post “‘Spear phisher’ proves why you should be skeptical of LinkedIn updates > Social Networking > Vulnerabilities & Exploits > News > SC Magazine Australia/NZ” contains this text:

“Spear phisher’ proves why you should be skeptical of LinkedIn updates

 

Bugat trojan delivered in LinkedIn spam By SC Staff Apr 15, 2011 9:52 AM Tags: linkedin | spear | phish Trusteer experiment found half of social networkers would go to a landing page if asked. A recent spear phishing experiment led to half of a targeted audience reaching a specifically designed landing page in 48 hours.

Trusteer admitted that it picked 100 LinkedIn users, created a new identity and sent a fake job alert.

It said: ‘Since LinkedIn sends an alert when one of your connections has a new job, we decided to use this update method to create a fraudulent email. For each one of our targets we crafted a fictitious new job alert. We chose one of their LinkedIn connections and announced that this person was now working for a company that directly competes with our victim’s company.

‘We included a big button ‘View [friend’s name] new Title’ and we also included the friend’s photo. Clicking on the button redirects the victim to a different website, not LinkedIn. The website we used was innocuous, but it was a place holder for a potentially malicious website that places malware on the victim’s computer.’”

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“Facebook password changed? Malware attack poses as message from Facebook support

by Graham Cluley on April 13, 2011 | Be the first to comment
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Repeat after me: It’s ‘Facebook’, not ‘FaceBook’.

Learn that lesson and it can be one of the tricks you can use to protect yourself against a spammed-out malware campaign, which tries to trick you into believing that Facebook support has changed your password.

Computer users are receiving emails claiming that the popular social network has automatically changed their password to secure their account.

Here’s a typical message:

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“‘Twilight’ fans targeted in Facebook scam
by Elinor Mills

New scam tricks people into thinking they will get to play a new game related to the ‘Twilight’ teen vampire movies.
(Credit: Sophos)
Fans of the ‘Twilight’ movies are falling prey to a scam that can end up hijacking their accounts and sending the scam on to unsuspecting friends.”

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