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At the Library: Talk is Out of Order, April 27 In 2005, Benoit received the prestigious Ben Franklin Award and the Glyph Award for his first novel, Relative Danger, as well as nominations for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery, and the Best First Mystery Barry Award given by Deadly Pleasures magazine. Copies of Out of Order, as well as Relative Danger, will be available for sale at the book signing and author discussion. Out of Order depicts Jason Talley, driven into a whirlwind of unexpected events and strange circumstances while abroad, in India. "India is the last great adventure in the world," said Benoit. "I wanted to portray an everyday person finally being able to be the hero, not like the stories we always see on television and in the movies. It's the everyday individual on an adventure of a lifetime that is so inspiring. In this case the individual happens to be from Corning and I hope that is part of what will make this novel so fascinating to my readers." Benoit, shown at left, lives in the Rochester, NY area. He has served in the US Army as part of the 3rd Infantry's Old Guard, taught high school social studies with the Rochester City School District, was an instructor for four years at the American International School in Kuwait, and is currently a copywriter at Dixon Schwabl Advertising in Victor, NY. He is also the host of the award-winning "Smart Set," Jazz 90.1's weekly swing show. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Harvard - UC Berkeley study: Phishing fools savvy surfers, too According to a Harvard-UC Berkeley study on phishing - the practice of directing users to fraudulent web sites - existing security cues and pop-ups on web browsers are "ineffective" in preventing Internet fraud. Cleverly designed phishing web sites fooled 90% of participants in the study, "Why Phishing Works," by Rachna Dhamija of Harvard and J.D. Tygar & Marti Hearst of UC Berkeley. The researchers compiled data from other sources, such as the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which reported that 2 million users gave information to spoofed websites in 2003, and that "U.S. banks and card issuers incurred $1.2 billion in losses." The APWG says there were more than 17,800 phishing reports in January 2006 alone. The Harvard-UC Berkeley group says we see this high level of Internet fraud because phishing has become sophisticated and because computer users overlook the warning signs. Phishing sites fooled study participants, on average, 40% of the time. 23% of the study group did not look at the address bar, status bar or other security indicators when evaluating suspect websites. Even popup warnings were ignored by 15 out of the 22 study participants. Although the study group was small, it spanned demographic categories. There was no significant difference in ability to spot fraudulent websites between the sexes, age groups, people with different education levels or even between frequent and infrequent computer users. The people who did best in the study: -Carefully evaluated website content, -Compared the domain name in the address bar with the domain name of the website they intended to land on, -Looked for the presence of "HTTPS" in the address bar, rather than HTTP (HTTPS indicates transmission through a secure Internet protocol.), -Looked for the presence of a padlock icon (in the Mozilla-Firefox browser) in the browser frame, -Checked to see whether the site had a valid certificate. Confused? Concerned? The Southeast Steuben County Library has a free class on Computer Security. If you want to learn how to protect your computer and guard sensitive information, consider attending the class on Monday, May 8, 2006 from 3 pm to 5. You may sign up at the Reference Desk or by calling (607) 936-3713 ext 502. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org |
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