After our Educational Dinner Party on Cybercrime, we had a chance to do a live interview with the guest speaker, David Stelzl. During his speech, Stelzl commented that it’s very likely that each one of us has digital information that has already been stolen. So what do we do??? He answered our questions about what businesses should do to protect themselves. What should users do? What about cloud computing? Check out his answers on this brief and off-the-cuff interview.
We just upgraded our Active IT monitoring technology to help our clients believe even more in the great service we can provide them! This addition allows multiple off-site backups and monitoring, virtual servers that keep your office active and secure if your server should go down, anti-spyware monitoring and protection, security patch management, one click remote access and diagnosis for servers and PC’s, 24×7 system monitoring and much more. This is something that can take the worries and hassle out of IT.
Now even safe websites may be unsafe!
In a story by Robert Lemos of “Technology Review,” researchers at the University of California did a 4 month study. The findings are frightening:
1. More than 6,500 websites hosting malicious code redirected nearly 340,000 visitors to malicious sites.
2. 13.3% of visitors were infected with malicious or unwanted files
Two important factors were found from this study. First, Windows AND Mac computers were infected. Many believe Macs are much safer. Second, over half the machines infected had antivirus software running on the machine.
The researchers found that both business sites and the seedier porn sites were hi-jacked. This is interesting because it used to be that just the seedier sites were the main problem.
So what do you do about this? The number one defense is to regularly patch and update the computer. It’s like we’re all in a race. Those of us trying to use the computer as a tool are racing the hackers who are trying to break in to our tool and make money. Unfortunately, hackers are much better at designing tools to break in than average users are at updating their systems.
Identity Theft Helpful Websites
Identity-Theft is the fastest growing crime in America; 9.9 MILLION victims were reported last year, according to a Federal Trade Commission survey!
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