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February 15, 2008 | 
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As time goes by, it would seem that the dangers of online shopping is of no more. Back in the older days, the real online dangers of online shopping was due to the websites that we were making a purchase with. Hackers would hack into those websites and try to steal our information. They would place a bug into the website so that each time someone send the website their credit card information, it would be sent back to those hackers.
That was how it happened many years back. But now it is almost impossible for them. As the Internet gets more attention from users around the world, so has security. Now almost all websites that do handle credit card transactions, use a secured third party service. For example, websites that want to use the credit card function can actually apply for such a service directly from Visa and MasterCard. And there are now many other secure payment options.
Internet security has now become a major business, as many Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware companies fight for a multi million industry. Now, it makes it almost impossible for hackers to hack those websites to steal our information. That is the main reason, why many involved parties keep claiming that making a purchase in the Internet is as safe as it gets. And to be honest, they do have a point, as the security on those websites are very tight. So, it would seem that the online dangers of online shopping is of no more. Or is it?
Sorry to tell you, but the threat is far from being over. So how do they still steal our information considering that most websites now have security so tight, it would almost seem like a government website. Simple, instead of hacking those websites that have high security, they now target the source itself. Yes, that means both yours and my computer.
Think about it for a moment. Instead of hacking a high security website, wouldn’t it be easier to hack normal peoples computer? Let’s be honest, those websites use expensive security packages to protect their website and server. But most of us just use a free and out dated version of an Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software. Obviously, it would be much easier to hack into our website.
And that is one of the main reasons for why there are so many viruses and spy-wares being spread around the Internet today. Many people might think that they are doing it just for fun, to disrupt another persons computer. But this is perhaps the main reason why those hackers are spreading so many viruses online, which is currently on of the main online dangers. With the wide variety of downloads available, as well as the many website that help promote downloads, the chances of us downloading one of those Spy-Ware is there.
So what can you do about it? The most important thing is to get a good Anti-Virus software that is constantly updated. Remember, new viruses and Spy-ware can’t be detected by old Anti-Virus security programs. An updated software is vital to keeping our computer safe. Only once this happens, can we really eliminate the online dangers of online shopping.
By: Kevin Lopez
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Golden State employers cut their payrolls by 35,800 jobs in July, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. That’s a significant improvement over monthly losses that averaged 76,000 over the first half of the year.
Still, July’s numbers were worse than some analysts had expected, rising from 11.6% in June and led by declines in trade, construction and manufacturing. Even with the rise in unemployment here, however, a consensus is growing that the worst of the recession may be over.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Friday declared the economy to be “leveling out,” and the National Assn. of Realtors reported a sharp rise in July home sales. Wall Street responded by pushing the Dow index to its highest point since November.
Still, a robust recovery appears unlikely, and some regions of the country are expected to suffer fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble for years to come. That includes California, which is now tied with Oregon for the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation, behind Michigan, Rhode Island and Nevada. The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.4%, down from 9.5% in June.
California’s battered construction and housing industries, long pillars of the state economy, remain troubling sources of weakness. Over the last year, the state has lost 760,200 jobs, nearly 1 in 5 of them in construction. White-collar workers have likewise suffered from the housing crash as thousands of jobs in banking, mortgage processing and real estate sales have vanished.
The number of new-home permits issued in July fell 47.4% from a year earlier, according to the Construction Industry Research Board.
“We’ve disproportionately benefited from two sectors, construction and financial services,” said Esmael Adibi, an economist at Chapman University.
“The demise of these two sectors has hurt us disproportionately.”
That’s had an outsize effect on California’s 13.5 million Latinos, who are heavily concentrated in the building trades. In 2007, Latinos made up 47% of the construction workforce in the state, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In July, California’s Latino unemployment rate hit 12.7%, dwarfing the white jobless rate of 9.5%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Black unemployment remains the highest in the state at 14.2%. But Latino joblessness has grown much faster. In July 2007 the Latino unemployment rate stood at just 5.9%, compared with 9.2% for blacks and 4.8% for whites.
Last month, 805,000 California Latinos were jobless. That’s up 127% over the last two years. The number of unemployed whites in the state grew 103% over the same period, while the number of out-of-work African Americans rose 66%.
“You really begin to see desperate times for lots of Latino families throughout California,” said Vince Vasquez, a senior policy analyst with the National University System Institute for Policy Research.
East Los Angeles resident Robert Gonzales said he was struggling to support his three children after his job as an industrial painter disappeared a year ago when his employer moved to Ohio.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-caljobs22-2009aug22,0,6343107.story
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