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Hilton Honors is offering up to 10,000 points for registering and staying at participating Hilton properties between July15-Sep 30.

Recent news about the troubled airline industry showed serious cash flow problems for US Airways and United. Another merger in the making? With no signs of passenger traffic improving, the airlines are in for some rough weather. Delta is not far behind with large debt maturities to the tune of 5 billion dollars scheduled for the year 2011.

The Twitter attack used traditional social engineering instead of complex hacking. The message is simple–start using different passwords to prevent a similar situation. Update your profile/account settings to remove unused/old accounts as secondary emails. It’s easy for someone to re-register and gain access to your primary account as well as search for clear text passwords. That is what happened in this case. The so-called vulnerability of Google Apps is nothing but a misunderstanding of collaboration tools. Security is a fundemental necessity. There is no excuse for weak controls.

Read the anatomy of the twitter attack on techcrunch.com

Alaska wants flyers to wait 60 days for partner activity miles to deposit! They are the slowest to deposit miles. I changed my mind. Northwest is one of the quickest to deposit miles.

I wonder what made Northwest give away 10,000 EQMs to Platinums. I received an email that 5,000 EQMs were deposited but noticed 10,000 in my account. Is Delta trying to retain unhappy elites on Northwest? It takes more than EQMs.

Delta Sky Club promo ends tonight. Use DSC20 for 20% off

Alaska Airlines has released their latest promo code, and it can save you up to 10% on flights to/from select cities in Canada and the American West. Save on airfare to/from Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, and more.

This promo offer ends May 3, but it’s good for travel between May 11 and June 30, 2009. Visit Alaska Airlines for more details, and use the promo code EC043709.

Source: Farecompare.com

The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.

Even though it may seem that the virus has been maintaining a low profile for the past few days, security experts warn that the virus is still a threat. In reality, it has already attacked thousands of personal computers in India and nearly 15 million computers globally till date.

So how do you protect your PC from this devastating worm? You can, if you are able to spot whether your PC is infected by it. How do you do that?

Thanks to Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, you can now see if your computer is affected by Conficker with a simple eye test. Stewart came up with a Conficker Eye Chart, which is a simple visual test you can use to evaluate a PC just by surfing to that page and looking at the images. Below the images, there is also a guide on how to interpret the results. It couldn’t be simpler!

However, the test doesn’t work if you’re behind a web proxy.

The worm is programmed to update itself from domains it randomly generates. For the latest version, Conficker C, this amounts to nearly 50,000 domains a day. The virus author needs to use only one of these domains to host the update, thus making tracking nearly impossible.

Use the test to check whether your PC is infected with Conficker and take the necessary remedial measures. To read more on Conficker, click here.

Source: Techtree.com