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5 Simple Steps to Protect your Digital Downloads

By On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A couple of days ago, I was searching for a popular eBook online.

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Mall Protection

By On July 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The Loss Prevention Manager should be receptive to the needs and
objectives of upper management and work to prevent and reduce loss from crime, fire accidents etc.

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Phishing: A Scary Way of Life

By On June 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified “phishing” as the “hottest and most troubling new scam on the Internet.”

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Behavior to Stay Safer Online

By On June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

1. Importance of a Virus Scanner: A Antivirus program can help to prevent you from becoming infected with a Virus or Trojan. It is extremely important to make sure this program is updated at least once a week, and all drives are scanned. Viruses usually are used to destroy your Data or Hardware. Where as [...]

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Protect Your Little Black Book

By On April 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The movie Little Black Book features a young woman, Stacy, who is frustrated when her boyfriend refuses to share information about his past relationships. When his PDA, a Palm Tungsten C, falls into her hands, she is faced with a conundrum. Does she give it back, or does she explore it? If she gave it [...]

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Don’t Miss Information Because of Misinformation

By On April 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

It has been said that with the wealth of information, freely available, the Internet has the ability to make you smarter, faster, than any other medium on the planet.

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Backup and Save your business!

By On March 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There you are busily typing away on your PC or your
Laptop, and all of a sudden the strangest thing happens.
The screen goes black, extinquished like a candle in the
wind.

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Don’t Become An Identity Fraud Statistic!

By On February 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“You’ve just won a fabulous vacation or prize package! Now, if you’ll kindly give me your credit card information and social security number for verification purposes, you will receive this awesome gift!”

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Protecting Your Children On The Internet

By On January 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you are a parent, as am I, I think we can agree there is
little else more important than keeping our children safe
and protected. It’s difficult enough keeping them safe from
the unscrupulous people we read about in the news, but
dealing with children and the Internet takes it [...]

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Can I Guess Your Password?

By On July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

We all know that it’s dangerous to use the same password for more than one program. If you sign up for a program run by someone of low moral fibre, what is to stop them running through various programs with your username and password to see what they can access?

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Delete Cookies: New-Age Diet or Common Sense Internet Security?

By On June 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

No, this article isn’t about some new, lose-20-pounds-in-a-week, certified-by-some-tan-Southern-California-doctor diet. It’s about cookies on your computer – what they are, why they are there, and what to do about them. Computer cookies actually have quite a bit in common with their baked counterparts – some are good, some are bad, and they have expiration dates.

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Top Ten Spyware and Adware Threats Identified

By On June 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

On December 8, 2004 Webroot, an award winning anti-spyware solution provider, released a press release identifying the ten most significant emerging spyware and adware threats. Most of these you probably haven’t heard of and a few may surprise you.

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I Spy…Something Terribly Wrong (In Your Computer)

By On March 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This really chapped my lips…

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A New Era of Computer Security

By On February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Computer security for most can be described in 2 words, firewall and antivirus.

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Top 10 tips for Safe Internet Shopping

By On January 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Over £5 billion pounds was spent on online shopping in 2004. The Internet was the fastest growing retail sector last year, attracting one in four shoppers. The growth rate for the online market was 27.4 per cent, six times better than for the traditional retail market. This looks set to rise as more and more [...]

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New CipherSend Online Security Service Thwarts Email Address Theft And Soothes Password Fatigue

By On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In 1997, I decided after 15 years as a practicing CPA that it was time to put down my pencil and explore a new venture on the exciting new internet which, while perhaps not exactly in its infancy at that point, was still at least a pimply faced teenaged medium still unexplored by most accountants.

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