Ning's new pricing plan goes into effect in just a few days.  Have you made your decision whether to pay Ning and attempt to recover your money by advertising, etc. or to migrate to a different platform?  Time is short, but here are three alternatives to consider.

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Email security is an ever growing concern these days.  Well known people and even some top government officials have been the victims of identity theft as the result of "phishing" scams.  Email systems and email programs are constantly being updated to detect these scams and protect us from the bad guys.  A side effect of the enhanced security is that your emails may be inadvertently flagged for phishing.

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Pro Epic's pilot project for website security has detected and stopped 883 hacking or spam attempts in the past 30 days. The pilot project included 5 separate hosting accounts and 37 individual websites.  During the pilot project no malware was placed on any of the websites.  No pages were defaced, and no spam entries were submitted in comments or articles.

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Custom pages on FaceBook, Linked In, Merchant Circle and other services are a good way to market your business on-line.  They are free or low cost and don't require a lot of effort to maintain.  The services don't always give you an easy to remember URL for your page.  Some services require a certain number of followers or charge extra for a "vanity URL".

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One of the fun parts of creating websites is making designs that look nice and are also functional.  Graphic buttons are one of the most often used images calling visitors to take action.

This Photoshop tutorial covers one way to make a graphic button with a reflective surface. The button we are going to make will be on a white background, and ultimately be part of an image in a slideshow.   

Our finished button will look like the image below.

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A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against both Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat. This advisory will be updated once a schedule has been determined for releasing a fix.

Reportedly, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate is not vulnerable to the exploit.  It is available at
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

There is not patch yet, but the threat for Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 may be mitigated by deleteing or renaming the authplay.dll that ships with those products.  The authplay.dll is typically located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\authplay.dll for Adobe Reader or C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\authplay.dll for Acrobat.

Full details are available from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html.