Security-Privacy

Watch out for fake virus alerts!

Rogue security software, also known as “scareware,” is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading alerts, or attempts to lure users into participating in fraudulent transactions.

Watch the Video here to help you identify this and many more types of security issues on your PC.

Contact us for additional information or help on cleaning up your PC and securing your Business machines.
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Concerns grow over cellphone security – USA Today

Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone was able to plant a virus or hack into your cellphone? With most of us now carrying a great deal of information on our cellphones from contacts, and business emails, and even banking applications, it should be a very high concern.

Have a look at some of the thoughts of experts on this USA Today article.

http://fluentnews.com/s/26080768

And keep in mind that the new smart-phones are exactly like our desktop and laptop computers nowadays, and require the same care with information.

Are you one of our clients and have additional questions, please contact us and we can help to provide the information and tools necessary to keep you and your business safe.

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Eliminate private documents permanently from your hard drive.

Working in the finiancial and home health care industry, we are obligated to keep best practices when it comes to protecting data.

So as you would expect we get a number of requests to migrate data or upgrade machines. This leaves the task that most individuals neglect to take care of, which is making sure the data on the old hard drive is unrecoverable to prying eyes.

Many people think that clearing their history, deleting files and cookies, and emptying their computer’s recycle bin is enough. This is not so, the files still remain on the hard drive recovarable by individuals with tools to get access to them.

The hard drive is like a book and when you use the delete key, it just clears the table of contents of the book. In order to makes sute that the hard drive is cleared thourougly, special wiping tools are used to write information over top of the old data thus clearing it out.

Now this is 99% thourough as if the CIA is after your data, then you still may have a problem.

If you are needing this type of support, contact us to help protect your data.

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Privacy Controversies – Be Aware of these new trends!

With all the great new technology out there and the new world of Social Networking with the likes of Facebook, MySpace, Google etc… , we should all really be a little concerned and vocal about a basic right of privacy.

Here are some of the latest articles that catch our attention. Please, Please, Please be aware of these new privacy trends.

Consumer Watchdog takes its crusade against Google to new heights. (Blasts Eric Schmidt on privacy issues and calls for a Do Not track List)

Cleveland rolls out carts with chip technology that identifies those who do not recycle enough and will give a fine.

 Facebook’s new Places location services has privacy features that help you control whether–and which–people can see where you are. Here’s a hands-on guide to ensuring your privacy.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly has predicted that teenagers one day will be able to automatically change their names to distance themselves from their Google past. But what strategy should you take to create a new name?

Google will have to head to court to explain the company’s collection of data on people’s Wi-Fi networks and transmissions during its Street View surveys.

 With the controversy over Internet privacy growing, more businesses are seeking to ease user concerns by offering new tools that enable anonymous searches and Web surfing.

Google Street View Privacy Touches Congress…

Is the flying drone, Googles next privacy Controversy?

Google has refused to rule out extending controversial facial recognition technology, despite being hit by a storm of complaints over privacy.

EPIC to Urge Congress to Strengthen Privacy Laws for Facebook Users

Following EPIC FOIA Lawsuit, US Senators Raise Questions About Retention of Body Scanner Images

FBI’s push to clarify electronic authority raises privacy concerns

Online Banking (Experts Finally Admit it is Not Safe)

A few years ago, we used to be asked if online banking was safe and we were always placed in somewhat of a bad light when we would say, “not really”. We would give some of our standard security advice:  make sure your anti-virus is up to date, malware protection etc… and even highly reccomended doing your accounting and online business from a separate machine. (One you don’t regularly install applications on or use for email.)

We were always in a fight with the major advertisements by banks claiming online banking is safe (Remember the little security blue chip in unnamed banking company) . They never mentioned that small business with a wire transfer account that happened to get a virus and their money wired to the islands never to be returned as the bank claimed it was their computer that caused the security breach. For a while, we were never asked about online banking, as it was always assumed there was encryption, and that the bank was responsible and would return your money if taken. Well ……

Well finally, the American Bankers Association is now asking consumers to “partner” with banks to keep cyber-thieves  in check.

They want consumers to monitor their online accounts for unauthorized transactions on a “continuous, almost daily basis”  This is a laughable request, and scares the heck out of us since we already knew that the banks could not keep our accounts safe.

At least now they finally admit it.

I highly urge you to read the official article “Banks require your help to keep online banking safe” By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY (7/30/2010)

Photo  By Alejandro Gonzalez, USA TODAY