The Fraud Center of the National Consumers League lists the top Internet scams of last year. Fake Check Scams make up 29% of all compaints, making it the most common scam. Second and third are General Merchandise and Auctions, or goods bought online that are misrepresented or not delivered. Although Nigerian Money Offers are only [...]
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Comments(0) To clean up your personal information after accessing the Internet through computers that are not your own, simply delete them. Go to the Tools menu of your Internet browser and select Options for Firefox or Internet Options for Internet Explorer. In IE, click Delete under Browsing History in the General Tab and individually delete temporary [...]
Read More..>>When your work does not need any link to the internet or office network, you can try disconnecting it by disabling the network card or through some other means. Any Trojans or viruses that aim to steal information cannot defeat hardware constraints such as a pulled network cable. When using remote terminals or accessing the [...]
Read More..>>The price we have to pay for privacy is great when were talking about getting charged illegally with respect to your credit card due to information leaked from an online transaction. True, many online transactions are protected by security through secure lines and all but there are still some that get through and get on [...]
Read More..>>Many other filtering can be done to protect computers and even in a home scenario with only a few computers, firewall software would be a good investment but as stated, it comes standard or as add-on options with anti virus software you may already have. Bigger corporations install a firewall appliance which is simply a [...]
Read More..>>Firewalls are software that prevents intrusion of certain information from entering your computer. A personal firewall protects you from suspicious access from outside such as hacking cases and filtering of addresses that prevents information from sites you block from getting in and bugging you. The name was given for as with a physical firewall, which [...]
Read More..>>Ever wonder how your user name and passwords are entered automatically as you go to a site, cookies too, and what about those pop up messages that keep bugging you about something you just searched for, them too. All of these pesky and annoying stuff just because of them, in a never ending battle for [...]
Read More..>>The problem is in their nasty ability to record everything you do and then send the information they gather to other people. If you are using windows, set the security settings to medium and you’d be amazed to see just how much of these cookies run as you jump from site to site. Another problem [...]
Read More..>>The security risks of cookies are quite hard to fathom but for most of us who simply know them as the type you dunk in milk, loaded with chocolate chips, they really pose a big threat. They have been around for a long time and have allowed internet companies to gather personal information from us [...]
Read More..>>Access to such information can give them access to the whole system compromising most if not all the information that is stored within, say customer files, employee records and more. FTP can be easily secured between systems for the only benefit is that it allows the transfer of files that are too large to email [...]
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