Koobface

There are around 120 million people who use facebook and they are now being targeted by a virus. This virus has been designed to get hold of personal information like credit card details etc...

The virus is known as, “Koobface,” and is spreading across facebook into people’s inboxes; the message is pretending to be from a friend, this results in people opening the message therefore opening the virus. The message is a trick, it usually says, “You look funny in this video, or You look awesome in this new video.” Once users have clicked on the link they are asked to look at "new videos by Tom."

To watch the video users have to download Adobe Flash Player, once this is done the virus starts to spread into your computer getting hold of personal information. from your cookies or they get you to try and buy something.

Teenage Hackers

Computer Security professionals have found many net forums where teenagers populate and swap credit card number, give each other phising kits and hacking tips. Security say that they will be caught and arrested.

Forums are firstly made with people sharing files and even sharing stolen data. Some people look for exploits and virus codes that can be run against social network sites where there are many young people.

Though teenagers have been said to creating virus' and hacking, experts say they have very poor IT skills, "They do not even know enough to get a simple phishing or attack tool right," said Kevin Hogan.

Many of the hackers post what they have done on sites such as youtube and sign on like they would if they were going to hack a site, by running a phishing attack or writing a web exploit.
Some are even stupid enough to leave their personal details, making it really easy for computer security's to track them and shut them down.

TV Screens

With new plasma TV becoming more and more popular old CRT's are being replaced.
Though there is a new TV screen being made from Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, which promise better pictures, lower power consumption and lighter screens.
SONY is the producer of this screen and is releasing OLED screens in Japan in December month and worldwide in 2009.
The OLED screen is only 3mm thick and is very energy efficient as it doesn't need a back light, unlike Plasma and LCD screens.
The price of a OLED TV is currently priced at about £3.500.

Nokia Phone

The new Nokia phone system is said that once developed further could eventually control central heating, home security cameras and draw your curtains.

The Nokia phone would have a wireless router, which interfaces with equipment around the house. Nokia has paired up with a European Energy company to manage heating. The Nokia phone is currently out in Barcelona and should be on our shelves by the end of the year 2009.

The phone has a 6 GB storage, necessary to act as a camera for video security cameras if needed. The phone is also able to read the temperature and if it knows that the temperature is getting too cold and the house –owner is away, it automatically turns the heating on to avoid the pipes from freezing.

Apple Iphone

The Apple Iphone advert has been banned by the BBC for exaggerating its speed to the viewers. The advert was showing the phone loading Internet pages within seconds, though this is not true.
The advert received many complaints from people who had been mislead by the advert, thinking that the phone was a lot better than it actually is.
Due to the complaints the ASA have said that the advert will be shown but in a different form, a more accurate one.
Apple said its claims were "relative rather than absolute in nature" - implying the 3G iPhone was "really fast" in comparison to the previous generation - and therefore the advert was not misleading.
Apple also said that the advert did claim that the speed of the Internet would vary due to the location that you were in!

Spam

It is said that if you surf the web without web-protection you are likely to receive 70 spam messages in your inbox a day, according to an experiment taken out by McAfee.
McAfee invited 50 people from any where around the world, including 5 from the UK, to surf the net without spam filters. Results have shown that UK residents are more likely to be targeted by the infamous Nigerian e-mails.
One UK participant, over one month received 5,414 spam e-mails. Though the US still beats this, they received a total of 23,233 spam email throughout the course of the experiment. Brazil received 15,856 were the second most spammed country.
In the UK 5 participant received a total of 11,965 spam messages throughout the whole experiment.
Germany attracted the least spam, with just 2,331 junk messages.

This experiment shows that spam is showing no sign of slowing down, participants noticed that their computers were slowing down due to the amount of spam they were receiving.

How "Tool Man" could change the way he works.

PDA= He could Carry this around with him and enter customers home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers; this way he will have all his customers details on him all the time.
There is also a calender on the PDA so he can enter appointments and then the PDA will tell him where he has to be and at what time, it would be like his personal organiser.
He could have a price list of all his products etc and have a list of what people owe him.

GPS= This is like a Satellite navigation system, this would be very useful for him and would not only be easier but would save him a lot of time as he wouldn't have to look for a location on a map, instead the Sat Nav would tell him where to go and he would be more likely to arrive on time to places. The GPS would be linked with the PDA therefore would have all customers address' on it.

Laptop= This would be very much like the PDA, though the only main difference is the size of the screen. He could use a laptop to store information; on customers, price lists, amount owed, invoices etc. The laptop would be very useful as it would save him having to visit the office as much and he could just do his work where ever he wanted in spare time.

Mobile Phone= would be very useful as he can communicate with customers, although if he had their email address it would be cheaper for him to mail them. Though a mobile phone is very important to have imidiate contact with the customer, for example if he was stuck in traffic he could let them know he would be running late.

Disadvantages of using this technology:
He would at some point need to visit the office to print off invoices etc.
Over Reliance; if it were to break he could loose all of his information therefore he needs to have a back-up system, i.e carry a road map with him just encase his GPS broke.