Archive for the 'The Security Trail' Category

Don’t Get Caught in the Phishers Net

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Phishing, pronounced fishing, is now becoming an epidemic throughout the Internet. Most people who use the internet and receive emails have probably received a phishing email or two.
But what is phishing and who are the phishers?
You receive an email from your bank like this below….
“Dear bank customer, your bank details need to be verified by […]

Internet Thieves Are Stealing Your Commissions

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

You Don’t Even Know!
You probably don’t even know, yet I’m sure you suspect it.
If you are tracking your links you are wondering why
you get so many hits, but so few sales.
Your Links Are Being Hijacked!
It’s because the thieves are hijacking your referrer ID,and
substituting their own. Or better yet they just delete the
[…]

Is Your Information Protected Online or Are You At Risk?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

This question comes up more and more frequently and
when the news is about hackers compromising hundreds
of thouands of users on a network system it has to be a
concern.
We are concerned about our privacy but we leave the
computers on twenty four hours a day since we are on the
fast speed dialups. […]

Deriving Due Care Practices from HIPAA and GLBA

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Recent years have shown a trend in corporations being held responsible for information security negligence. In particular, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Attorney General of New York have been actively pursuing companies that fail to follow effective security practices. Many high-visibility cases illustrate how companies are being required to implement stronger security controls, […]

Internet Monitoring, Safety And Security

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Internet monitoring is a necessary part of having internet service. Whether you allow your children to surf the web or if you have the need to monitor employees, effective programs can be used to help you to do this simply. There are many aspects that can be monitored and the results can be delivered to […]

Abatement of Weeds at Your Log Cabin

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

If you have a secluded getaway like a log cabin in the woods you need to insure that you very carefully remove the weeds, underbrush and debris around to insure that you are safe from wildfires. So often people lose their homes who are near forests or wilderness because they fail to take precautions and […]

Redirect Worms Away

Friday, October 10th, 2008

My site is hosted on an Apache web server. Why is that? Because, in my humble opinion, Microsoft’s IIS web server is in no way qualified to service internet web sites (it is excellent as an intranet and applications server, however). Another reason is the vast number of security issues that seem to pop up […]

How Will Your Network Be Compromised?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

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Title —– How Will Your Network Be Compromised? Complex Hacking - Computer Compromise —————————————————— Every time I attend a “Security Guru’s” meeting, I’m amazed by how much time and […]

Spyware IS Good

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

How many times per week do you run your antivirus protection or anti-spyware or adware programs to ensure that your paranoia about having an infected machine is just that, paranoia? With so many problems in the computer infection world, one cannot really blame themselves for checking up on their system on a routine basis. However, […]

EpokInc: Identity Management Solutions and all Web Services Security with Trusted data exchange

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Identity Rights Management (IRM) is the expression of information and rights between individuals, organizations, services and applications. IRM is an emerging technology category where globally unique identities are used to define data and service ownership and employed to extend the organizational trust boundary for trusted data exchange.
EpokInc offers Identity management solutions and all web services […]