Phishing scams are among the most prevalent forms of cybercrime, especially in the UK. Although phishing is widespread, it is beatable. Apart from ensuring you install security software, the best way to combat scams is to learn what phishing looks like.
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a kind of identity theft which is growing in popularity amongst hackers. By using fraudulent websites and false emails, perpetrators attempt to steal your personal data – most commonly passwords and credit card information.
Criminals gain this information by sending you links to sites that look like sites you trust, such as your online banking provider or social networks, and are able to steal your data as you enter it. Some of the sites spoofed most regularly include PayPal, eBay, Yahoo! and MSN, as well as financial institutions – so don’t think that an email is guaranteed to be safe when it’s not from a bank.
Retiree sightings at the commissary
Lane Martin, formerly of the 201st Combat Communications Group, continues to serve as a Traditional Guardmember in a First Sergeant billet. He also serves as the State Senior Vice Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Great seeing Lane!
Contact him if you are interesting in becoming a member of the Colonel H. Hickam Post 970.
Mark Shaw, a 154th Maintenance Group retiree, still works for the Navy at Pearl Harbor. He retired from the Hawaii Air National Guard a few years ago.
More retiree sightings at Woody Woodrow’s pining ceremony
Kathy Berg retired from her long time position at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She said her husband Steve, a 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron retiree, continues to be an avid photographer.
Robert Lee, the former Adjutant General, has a contract with Serra Nevada, a government contractor.
Dave Molinaro who recently returned to Hawaii, now works for Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies with Stan Osserman.
Stan Osserman continues as the Director of the Hydrogen Implementation for the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies.
Two former 154th Wing commanders were present – Pete “Skipper” Pauling, and Albert “Putt” Richards. Great talking to both of them.
Talked to Jim Yuki, a 204th Airlift Squadron retiree; he continues to fly for Aloha Cargo.
Sometime over the last weekend, Retiree News surpassed 300,000 hits. Special thanks to everyone who has supported the website over the last three years.
From the Hawaii Adjutant General Facebook
Hawaii National Guard’s participants in the The First Hawaiian Bank Troy Barboza Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.
Military associations and the resale industry that supplies groceries to base commissaries are sounding alarms over a provision in the Senate’s fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill that would direct the Department of Defense to privatize up to five of its 240 base grocery stores for two years to assess if a commercial grocer can run the entire system.
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is behind the initiative. After years of debate, he wants to learn whether a supermarket chain can operate base grocery stores so efficiently as to generate profits and still deliver robust savings to shoppers, saving taxpayers more than $1 billion annually, a committee source explained.
The June issue of the Kūkā‘ilimoku, the newsletter of the 154th Wing features:
* BG Woodrow pinning
* Memorial day
* plus more
The link below goes to the Air Mobility Command (AMC) website. This website and connecting links have general information about Space “A” travel and contact numbers.
Go to: http://ow.ly/k6dq6
There are a number of underlying problems and health conditions that can lead to knee pain. Some happen suddenly and others may develop slowly and gradually worsen. Although it’s a fairly small part of the body, a lot can go wrong with your knee.
Here’s an overview of just some of the conditions that commonly cause knee pain.
The good news: If you’re worried that the tax return you just sent to the IRS will be audited, breathe easy. Koskinen is telling anyone who will listen that budget cuts have severely limited the agency’s ability to review returns for accuracy. Audit rates for individual tax returns fell last year to the lowest level in a decade … and will fall even more this year.
The bad news: If you’re an honest taxpayer, you’ll be disappointed to learn that the IRS says that every $1 it spends on audits and other “enforcement” activities brings in $4 to the U.S. Treasury. Falling audit rates mean dishonest taxpayers will be allowed to keep billions of dollars they ought to be paying in taxes.
If you have a Facebook account, you should read this posting
Last week, Facebook introduced a way to show ads across the web to everyone, not just its own users. At the same time, it added a new privacy setting for people already on Facebook to limit how their activity on the social network shows up in ads elsewhere. It gets confusing! Here’s what’s up.
You can register to receive an email every time there is a new post. In the “Follow Retiree News via Email” section and press “Follow”. On the next screen, enter your email address and press ENTER. Shortly, you will receive a confirmation email to your address from WordPress.com. You acknowledge the email and you are a registered reader.
After you compete this short registration process, you get a notification email every time there is a new posting. The email has a quick teaser of the posting, along with tags that indicate how the posting relates to special topics/areas. There is a direct link to the website (Read more of this post)
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Nathan J. Kim, 51, of Las Vegas, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Sunday, March 20, 2016. He was a 1982 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nathan was a former member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, an avid bodyboarder and skier, and he loved to travel. For the last twelve years he was a bartender at the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas.
He is survived by his wife, Rossana Kim, mother, Yoshiko Kim, brother Mirio Whitley, as well as many cousins, family members and friends from Hawaii and Las Vegas who loved him very much and will miss him dearly.
A Celebration of Life will be held for him on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at the John A. Burns Hall on the grounds of the Keehi Lagoon Memorial Park, 2685 North Nimitz Highway. Reception will begin at 9:00 a.m. Service will be at 10:00 a.m. with luncheon to follow. Although lunch will be catered, you are welcome to bring a dish or pupu that you think Cuz would have loved. Aloha/casual attire. BYOB.
The scattering of his ashes will held on Sunday, June 12, at Mokuleia Beach Park on the north shore of Oahu. Service will begin at 9:00 a.m. Paddlers are welcome, but it will be approximately 150 yards off shore.
Cards and monetary gifts can be sent to 99-729 Aliipoe Drive, Aiea, HI. 96701.
Henry Keapokula “Hanalei” Yasso, 66, of Hoolehua, Molokai, a retired fire captain and an Army National Guard veteran, passed away in Hoolehua on May 24, 2016. He was born in Honolulu.
He is survived by sons Sheldon, Hanalei, Kumukoa and Kolealono; daughter Malia Siegmund; brothers Nathan and Kenneth; sister Patricia “Kitty” Coelho; and nine grandchildren.
Visitation: 9 a.m. June 11 at St. Damien Catholic Parish. Services to follow. Casual attire. Flowers welcome.
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
Ushi and Kame Teruya emigrated from Okinawa in the early-1900s and settled on the Big Island’s Hāmākua coast where they worked for the sugar plantation before becoming independent sugar growers. The couple had six children – four boys and two girls.
Three brothers, Albert, Herman and Wallace, dreamed of creating a successful business in the ‘land of opportunity’ which Hawai‘i was to thousands of immigrants and their offspring.
In 1929, Albert, seeing no opportunity to improve his bleak life on the plantation, was the first to leave to work in Honolulu. Wallace followed a year later, and the rest of the family moved to Honolulu in 1933.
This is a long article, but the writer did extensive research and has written a comprehensive article about the failure of Takata airbags.
Carlos Solis was driving a familiar route, the few miles from his home to his brother’s apartment outside Houston, on a Sunday in January last year. His cousin sat beside him, and a dog was in the back seat. Just as they turned into the complex, their car, a 2002 Honda Accord, was hit. It was a low-speed collision with modest damage. Both front air bags deployed. Solis’s cousin got out of the car uninjured. The dog was fine, too.
But Solis didn’t move. He’d been hurt, though at first it wasn’t obvious how. His cousin called Solis’s brother, Scott, who ran to the car. Scott tried to stanch the flow of blood from a deep wound in Solis’s neck; so did the paramedics. Solis died at the crash scene.
An autopsy, now part of court records, showed that a round piece of metal the size of a hockey puck had shot out of the Accord’s air bag, sliced into Solis’s neck, and lodged in his cervical spine and shoulder. It severed his carotid artery and jugular vein and fractured his windpipe.
Solis was 35 and the father of two teenagers. He was also the sixth person in the U.S. killed by an exploding air bag made by the Japanese company Takata.
