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After months and months of talking about naming someone to help with our nation’s cyber security, the White House has finally named someone to run this very important division. This past week, they named Howard A. Schmidt as the National Cyber Security Chief. Schmidt is bringing some attractive experience with him, with having worked for eBay and Microsoft.
So the question is what is someone like this going to do to help with cyber security? This sort of position is not something that any other president has appointed, so what will he be doing? The one thing we do know is that the computer systems of the US government need watching, but what about the watching over of the whole technology world that is currently exploding?
Either way, this gentlemen seems to have some history under his belt to help with the US government’s computer systems and hopefully any threats to the our nations cyber world. Time will tell exactly what this new role will be responsible for, however I am sure it is a position that will be constantly evolving with what is going on in Cyber world!

Internetnews.com is reporting that our cybercriminals most recent victims are the users on Digg.com. Digg.com is a common place for people to share stories and news going on around the world. Unfortunately, some hackers have so far posted 52 URLs for users to potentially click on and then download malware. These URLs are usually related to some sort of celebrity story, and they then get the users to click on them and eventually infest their PCs.
Lesson learned here is always know what you are clicking on, and think twice before providing your credit card information or other personal information. Leadpile Lead Exchange wants to make sure and provide any new news we have to our partners, so we can all be well informed.