Category: Data Security
9 Alarming Statistics About Identity Theft
Identity theft is a serious problem worldwide. This crime flourishes when thieves are given access to your personal information, allowing them to commit crimes under your name or spend your money unbeknownst to you.
Mobile Privacy Risks: Who Should Alert End Users?
Privacy is a slippery subject in the mobile applications world. Many government and commercial users worry about secure personal and business information being shared inadvertently by an obscure feature in a device or application.
Protect Workplace Information to Keep Employees’ and Customers’ Data Safe
People don’t realize is that when they don’t protect their company’s confidential information at work, they’re not just putting their employer, clients and customers at risk – they’re endangering themselves and their co-workers too.
Considerations for Creating an Online Privacy Policy
If you are starting an online business, conducting email marketing, or interacting with your customers via your website, then you need to be aware of and adhere to online privacy policies. What do online privacy policies accomplish? Why do you need one? Sometimes, it’s required, such as the statutes that govern email SPAM. Others are [...]
Devices that Protect Your Digital Assets
In a recent survey, nearly 55 percent of consumers said they do not back up or protect the digital content on their computer because either they don’t know how or think it’s too difficult. What makes this statistic more interesting is that nearly 60 percent of the same survey participants said they would miss their computers and its contents most if lost or stolen.
Bank Account Scammers are After Your SIM Card
Security researchers are warning phone users that criminals are using mobile phone identity numbers to conduct complex banking frauds.
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 [...]
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.
