If you are finding it hard to tell your kids to quit watching so much TV, Hopscotch Technology has come out with a product called BOB. If you want to have the kids upset with BOB and not you here’s your chance.

When you get BOB you need to open the bottom and plug in your TV to it, then program times you want BOB to turn the TV on and off. BOB also features password protected controls to better serve the parent and not the technologically sound young mind. You can set it up to be on for so much time or at certain times. To the people who say that they have a hard time programming stuff will not say that about BOB.

Reduced screentime for kids means better health and grades. Now, BOB puts an end to child-parent conflicts about screentime. Parents set limits, and once the time is up, electronics shut off.

BENEFITS OF BOB:

• BOB becomes the bad guy in screentime negotiations
• Children and teenagers consuming only the recommended one to two hours
of quality programming per day show improved grades and health
• Safe for all electronics

HOW IT WORKS:

• Plug BOB into any electronic device with a screen
• Manage time for up to six users
• Once kids reach hourly, daily or weekly limits, BOB shuts off the screen

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Maybe you can keep hackers out of your computer with a little help from Voice Of Bragg. Take these tips and use them.

There are many ways for a hacker to gain access to you router. Lets talk today about how they are getting your name and password to your router.

1. Reverse engineering
2. Dumpster Diving
3. Planting The Thumb Drive
4. Trojans
5. Packet Sniffing
6. Username And Password Programs

Reverse engineering

All of these examples lead the hacker to your personnel information. The definition of Reverse engineering is the process of extracting the knowledge. Here’s an example of reverse engineering.

Ring Ring
Hello (me)
Hello Mister Bragg, how are you today? This is Mr. Blahblahblah, I am with (name of your bank goes here), we are calling our account holders to let them know that there has been a breach in one our databases with your online account name and password. It pains us to have to call and tell you this but we want you to be assured we are taking every measure to get you back on track. (Mr. Blahblahblah)
Really, wow sounds like the bank is having a bad day. (Me)
So let’s take care of this right now ok. (Mr. Blahblahblah)
Ok let’s do it. (Me)
Let’s verify your online username and password and change it to a new one. For security reason’s, what is your security password you have set to your account to give us authorization to make these changes. (Mr. Blahblahbla)
Sure, it’s This Or That. (Me)
Great, now that we can make the changes, let’s verify what you have it set to and make the necessary changes. (Mr.Blahblahblah)

So you can see where this is leading. The hacker get’s all of your infomation to your online account with the opportunity to access your bank account.

Dumpster Diving

Come on this has to sound appealing to you. Who doesn’t want to sneak to your house in the middle of the night to look through your trash for any information that could lead them to your account information?
Planting The Thumb Drive

You walk outside to have a smoke and there it is, a thumb drive. You pick it up and think, it’s my lucky day. You walk inside, put it in your computer and pow, the key logger program is loose and you think the thumb drive had no info on it. Later that day you buy something online and give the hacker all of your credit card information.

Trojans

These are more common than you think. Seems there are a lot of people that are downloading stuff for shareware sites. The files you download might not always have exactly what you expected; they might have something extra to it, a Trojan. This allows a hacker to break through your computers defenses to access you computer.

Packet Sniffing

We can talk about wireless hacking here. By listening in on your wireless transmissions, a hacker can gather information that will allow them to study it to get your personnel information. This can also be done over the wire, meaning through your telephone wire of cable modem. If a hacker has any way to intercept your transmission he can access your packets of information.

Username And Password Programs

When you buy software or hardware for firewall or virus protection, it doesn’t stop a persistent hacker. There are many programs out there that will sit and try and find your user name and password to your wireless router or computer. After they have that information they have the keys to the castle. If you have any questions to any computer security or computer related issues, my door is always open.

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How secure is your wireless network? Too many times I have turned on my computer and the wireless network connection icon tells me there are available connections. This is an indication that there are wireless networks out there, question is, are they secure.

Types Of Wireless Networks

• RFID -Radio-Frequency Identification
• Infrared/IRDA -line-of-sight low power optical networking.
• HomeRF -an older wireless PC networking standard that is rapidly
Disappearing.
• Bluetooth -wireless networking for connecting peripherals such as printers, PDAs etc., and sometimes used for LAN.
• WiFi -IEEE 802.11a, b, g there are other versions; the standard everyone is going to is 54mb of transfer speed.
• 1x RTT, 3G and 2.5G cellular technologies

Security

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) -uses MAC (Media Access Control) level security to access your wireless network, and does not share an authentication key. When the wireless network has verified that your MAC is allowed on the network that’s when the encryption begins.

WPA (WiFi Protected Access) –this is the successor to WEP, it should resolve some of the issues that WEP is known to have.

Before You Go Wireless

Ask yourself some questions before you add your home computer to the wireless world. Once you put yourself out there, anyone can get in to your PC if it is not secure.

 Questions:
 
1. What kind of network will I be using?
2. What is your MAC?
3. Do you know how to get into your wireless router?
4. How many people are going to be on the network?
5. What is going to be your SSID?
6. Will you be using WEP or WPA?
7. What will be your method of using wireless?

Hackers Haven

Your open wireless network is a hacker’s hideout. He or she can get in while you are transmitting data and grab any of your information out of the air. With or without security you are still at risk. The time it takes a hacker to break into your network is about the same time it takes for you to get up and answer the door. So this authors opinion is that if you are using wireless do not put any information out that you don’t want the world to have. 
 

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