Category: Data Security
Data Privacy Day 2012: What Businesses Can Do
Data Privacy Day is an annual international celebration designed to promote awareness about privacy and educate people about best privacy practices.
Advice On Bringing Your Own Device to Work
When employees can have all their personal and work information at their fingertips, it can be a big help—and a major headache—to them and their employers.
How to Fight Phishing Once You’ve Been Hooked
Nearly one in five Americans report that they have been the victim of a phishing scam, according to the results of a survey conducted by Experian, the leading global services information company.
Protecting Data From Disaster
Small or large, domestic or international, modern businesses run (or fail) on data. If you’re a small-business owner, data – from customer email addresses to your bank account numbers – is vital to your company’s success. Protecting data is as important as generating sales.
Many small-business owners already know this; in fact, in a recent survey [...]
Avoiding Smartphone Scams
To help protect your phone or device from scam artists and increase your awareness of cyber security, here are a few tips designed to keep you and your money safer.
Four Tips to Insure Smartphone Safety
According to a recent report (Lookout Mobile Security Threat Report, August 2011), three out of 10 Android owners are likely to encounter a Web-based threat on their mobile device each year.
Detecting and Avoiding Identity Theft
More than 9 million Americans are affected by identity theft each year and nearly 40 percent of all Americans are more concerned about identity theft after hearing of the recent breaches of information within major corporations.
Red Flags Rule for Identity Theft Prevention is Now Law
Good news for anyone concerned about protecting their financial assets and their own good name: The Red Flags Rule is now the law. It requires businesses to create a written identity theft prevention program.
Securing Your Personal Information
Recent headline-grabbing data breaches left the information of millions of people exposed.
Removing Confusion from Computer Security
According to a recent Norton survey, 60 percent of consumers don’t understand or only somewhat understand the difference between paid and free security software products.
Preventing Thieves from “Skimming” Your Bank Account
The next time you use your credit or debit card at an automated teller or payment machine, be careful.
Reporting Identity Theft Can Pay Dividends
Identity theft is an invasive weed negatively affecting our nation in many ways. With $54 billion in losses each year, the crime of identity theft is adding to our national debt.
Personal Data Spring Cleaning: Tips for Shredding vs Saving
Clearing out the clutter isn’t the only incentive – or concern – when getting rid of old paperwork. Those financial forms could become a potential gold mine for identity thieves.
USB Worthy of a Superhero?
If you were a TV spy, this would be the drive you would be using to hold your secrets. Actually, if you were a real spy, this is the drive you would be using to hold your secrets.
Identity Security At Your Fingertips
More than 42 percent of e-mail users in the U.S. have seen an increase in spam messages over the past year and they are most fearful that spam will lead to viruses and identity theft.
Author Shares Tips for Combating Identity Theft
There are a lot of things that we can do today that we couldn’t do just a few years ago to lessen the risk and impact of this crime. As identity theft has evolved, so has the technology to detect it.
Internet Privacy: A New Frontier
Billions of people have been using the net, surfing the web going on 20 years now. But when it comes to issues of privacy the Internet is still something of a new frontier.
