E-Mail Phishing Alert

You probably receive and ignore a few phishing messages in your email every day. In fact, most are pretty easy to spot or are filtered by your SPAM settings. But, here's a fairly sophisticated one that has been making the rounds lately. It's being used to grab your Google credentials.

Be on the lookout for any e-mail that asks you to log into a Google Docs to view something. here.
Remember, if it's legit, you'll always be able to find it by going to the website on your own and the general advice remains the same: Do not click on links in e-mails unless you are absolutely sure of the source of the email and have checked the URL referenced in the link. Read more

White Collar Handyman offers instruction and coaching on how to understand the ins and outs of email.

iOS 7.1 - A Jailbreak Killer!

The iOS7 update looks good for everyone. It even promises a snappier performance for iPhone 4 users. But, it's also a jailbreak killer. And not any old jailbreak killer; those who seem to know say that this update might be "the end of all jailbreaks."

Certainly, each successive update has taken longer and longer to jailbreak. So, if you are really attached to those fun little features that only a jailbreak provides, hold off on the update. Otherwise... as always:

1. Attach the iPhone to your computer.
2. Open iTunes.
3. Click on "Back Up Now."
4. Wait for the backup to finish
5. Click on "Check for update" and then update to 7.1

Your phone will be unusable for about an hour and will need to remain connected to the computer for another few hours, depending on how many apps, pix, music, etc. need to be restored to the device.