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An airline passenger rights advocate is accusing Delta Air Lines of hacking into her computer and e-mail accounts to sabotage her organization’s attempts to mandate basic services during flight delays.

Kate Hanni, a resident of California, is the founder of the Coalition for an Airline Passengers Bill of Rights, an organization lobbying for federal laws that require airlines to provide bathroom access, clean air, and access to medical treatment when passengers are held up for hours on the tarmac. The legislation would also give passengers an option to exit the plane if they have been delayed on the tarmac for over three hours. Four versions of a “Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights of 2009″ are currently pending before Congress.

In a lawsuit filed in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, Hanni accuses the world’s largest airline carrier and an aviation consulting firm of conspiring to breach her computer and email in order to derail her lobbying efforts. She seeks a minimum of $11m in damages.

According to court documents, Hanni claims earlier this year she began exchanging emails with Frederick Foreman, an analyst with Virginia-based Metron Aviation who was researching US government airline surface delay data. During their correspondence, both swapped data and information about surface delays without explicit permission from Metron, of which Delta is a client.

Hanni said her PC and American Online email account were both accessed illegally this summer, with AOL confirming the email breach. Some of her data was copied to an unknown location, and other files were corrupted and rendered useless.

The plot thickens in Foreman’s affidavit. He claims that on September 25, 2009, Metron executives confronted him with “what appeared to be hacked and stolen email communications” between Hanni and himself, as well as two media contacts. The emails were sent from his private accounts on MSN and AOL and not sent through Metron’s internal email system, he claims.

Foreman states in his sworn affidavit that the executive informed him the emails were sent to the Metron from Delta and that the airline was “mad and upset” Hanni had been provided with the flight delay information. Foreman claims he tried to explain that the data was publicly available online from US government statistics, but was still fired and escorted off the premises.

When reached for comment, Delta flatly stated, “the allegation that we would hack an individual’s e-mail is absurd.”

Hanni claims Delta has a motive for seeking and destroying her data because if passenger rights bills are passed, airlines stand to lose over $40m in revenues in addition to millions more in accommodations for customers exiting planes during long delays. Currently, airlines are not restricted by law on how long planes can hold passengers on the tarmac.

Arhur Monderos is working in a company as antivirus software specialist and he runs his cool blog where he helps you to choose best antivirus software for you computer.

Mozilla has introduced a service that checks Firefox browser plugins to make sure they don’t have known security vulnerabilities or incompatibilities.

The service debuted on Tuesday with this page, which checks 15 plugins to make sure they’re the most recent versions. Over time, Mozilla developers plan to scan additional addons, and they also plan to embed a feature into version 3.6 of the open-source browser that will automatically indicate which plugins used on a current page are out of date.

The offering builds on a feature Mozilla rolled out last month that warned Firefox users when they had an out-of-date version of Adobe’s Flash media player installed. In its first week, Mozilla statistics showed more than half of those who installed the latest Firefox release were running an insecure version of the frequently attacked plugin.

Not that the service has necessarily gotten off to as good a start as one might hope. Our tests failed to detect the use of Adobe Reader, another application widely abused by criminals. And other plugins, such as Google Picasa and the iTunes Application Detector were also left out in the cold.

But as Mozilla makes clear here, the page is only the beginning. Eventually, the organization plans to “create a self-service panel for vendors to update their plugin info as new releases come out.”

It’s initiatives such as these that demonstrate Mozilla’s dedication to the security of its users, and for that it deserves props. When legions of end users keep internet-facing software updated, we all win.

“We strongly recommend that add-on developers require SSL for updates to prevent the attack described above,” Window Snyder, chief security officer for Mozilla, stated in a post to the group’s developer blog.

The Mozilla Foundation released on Wednesday a patch for both version 1.5 and version 2.0 of the browser, fixing a critical memory corruption flaw.

Arhur Monderos is working in a company as antivirus software specialist and he runs his cool blog where he helps you to choose best antivirus software for you computer.

First impression is the most important when you go to apply for a job. A resume makes your first impression. It should be written perfectly and must have every detail about you. Here are some tips that will help you write a perfect resume.

The resume should be perfectly written. To avoid any spelling or grammatical mistakes, you can use Word software. But it can not detect every error. So you should read it yourself to look for any errors that may still be there in the copy.

Do not write a very long resume. Make sure it has all the necessary details that are required. If it is too long, the reader may find it too boring and may not give it much importance.

Choose the correct formatting style for your resume. Make sure you do have bullet points and some font styles in a printed resume while in an online resume; there should not be anything like that. If it is to be submitted online, it should be a simple one as it is the preferred style.

Many companies get a lot of resumes via their websites. So they search through all those resumes using various keywords. Make sure you have the important keywords in your resume. The main keywords are about the technologies known, qualifications and your job position.

You should clearly understand the basics of writing a resume. Things like your objective, experience and qualifications should be clearly visible. You should also write about the jobs you performed with other companies and your job responsibilities there.

Various employers have openings for various positions. Before sending a resume, you should clearly mention your skills about that particular job position for which you are applying. That will give you an advantage over others.

There are various social media tools where you can get in touch with professionals from all over the world. LinkedIn is one such tool where you can get in touch with various persons and establish contacts.

A potential employer first takes a look at your resume that makes an impression about you. So it is up to you to build a perfect resume that will be complete and one that will create the right impression about you. Find some tips below to do the same.

Proof read your resume for any grammatical errors. You can also use spell checker software. But it may still leave some errors. So it is better to read it yourself to correct any spelling or grammatical errors.

The resume should not be too long. Include details about all the skills you possess and the experience you have had. But do not make it too long so that it seems boring to the reader.

You should maintain different formatting on your resume. You have to submit different formatting for printed and online resumes. When you are submitting it online, it should be a simple one. But when you are submitting a printed copy, it can have fonts, bullets and bold formatting.

Many companies get a lot of resumes via their websites. So they search through all those resumes using various keywords. Make sure you have the important keywords in your resume. The main keywords are about the technologies known, qualifications and your job position.

All the important points should be summarized and clearly mentioned. You should write a clear objective and details about your experience and qualifications. You should clearly mention your job position at your previous employer.

Various employers have openings for various positions. Before sending a resume, you should clearly mention your skills about that particular job position for which you are applying. That will give you an advantage over others.

Finally, you can use various social tools like LinkedIn to get in touch with employers and form relationships with other professionals. Employers may see your resume from there too.