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Army Captain Stephen Redmon spent a year serving his country in Iraq. But it wasn’t until the young artillery officer returned home that he fell victim to an unseen enemy that turned his life upside down. Capt. Redmon’s paycheck was stolen online by an identity thief.
He’s not alone. Identity theft is the Number One military complaint reported to the FTC. If you’re in the armed services, find out how you can avoid becoming the next casualty. Read More
Would you ever share your Facebook or Twitter login information if a potential employer asked for it? What if you getting the job depended on it?
According to the Associated Press, more and more employers are asking for this information from job applicants so they access the applicant’s social media accounts from company computers.
Most of the time, security and government agencies are the ones asking for social media login information. If you’re applying for this type of job, you probably aren’t expecting a lot of personal privacy. Read More
From session hijacking to session sidejacking, do you know all your vulnerable points in wifi hotspots?
If not, check out a new white paper from Cisco called “The Future of Hotspots: Making Wi-Fi as Secure and Easy to Use as Cellular.”
We have warned about these kinds of hotspot attacks for years, but it is significant that Cisco agrees with our analysis. After all, Cisco is the largest manufacturer of wifi equipment, having shipped 10 million wifi access points to customers.
If they are saying that wifi hotspots are inherently vulnerable to attacks, you can be sure that they know what they are talking about. Read More
A new threat for Facebook users: the “ramnit” worm has compromised 45,000 user accounts, including login details and passwords.
The worm has primarily targeted Facebook users in France and the United Kingdom, but as we all know, when hackers take control of a person’s Facebook account, they can easily spam other users with malicious links that further spread malware like Ramnit. Read More
If you’re a small business owner, how much time and energy do you spend thinking about the threats posed by identity theft? Did you know your personal identity could become compromised through your business? Like most sole proprietors, you’re far too busy managing the day-in, day-out logistics of the company to spend much time keeping current on why it’s imperative to use a personal VPN, or how not to fall for phishing scams. Click the headline above to learn valuable tips to prevent, detect, and remedy identity theft at your business. Read More
For years, we have been told that HTTPS was reliable and secure, but the sad truth is this is no longer the case. If we cannot rely on websites to provide security via HTTPS, what is the answer? I strongly believe that each person needs to take individual responsibility for the privacy and security of their own Internet communications. Consider this: you have a firewall and anti-virus software on your computer, because you do not expect all sites to protect you against viruses. Why would you think you could rely on those sites to protect your communication? The only way to adequately protect your Internet communications is with a personal VPN, or virtual private network. You need to use a VPN whenever you are using a public wifi hotspot. And I happen to know where you can get a good one. Just click here and you can try it for free. Read More
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Visiting a fake website can have consequences ranging from loss of privacy, to credit card theft, even identity theft. Certificates can be forged, flawed, or stolen. In fact, some security experts say that the Certificate system is “broken” – and there are no remedies on the horizon. How important is that? Well, very important, actually. Because if the Certificate system is no longer fully reliable, then HTTPS, and many other parts of the Internet security system which also use Certificates, are not reliable either. Click the headline above to read more about this alarming development. Read More
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