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Nathan Ken

Hass and Associates Cyber Security: What's new in identity theft protection? - 1 views

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  • Nathan Ken on 01 Jun 13
     
    With all the hundreds of quests from our survey, it's a Hass Associates pleasure to answer those today! As what we have observed, identity theft is on the top where individuals get so interested. In fact, identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America, affecting on the average of 500,000 new victims each year, for the past decade. And so, we are glad to discuss this for you to be well- informed and have preventive measures, such as reducing and reporting scams and prosecuting scammers. These topics are followed by: -online security and hardware concerns; -earning money from legitimate work-at-home programs and work-at-home scams; -credit cards and consumer issues; -Nigerian and lottery scams; -viruses and spyware; -phishing scams; -investment scams; and -urban legends. Obviously, many subscribers are interested in knowing out about new scams in these areas. This seems quite related to what we have been writing about. With all your exciting and terrific questions, Scam Busters will become even better. Today, we'll answer five of your biggest questions about identity theft: Answers to Our Subscribers' 5 Biggest Identity Theft Protection Questions 1) How big of a problem is identity theft and how long does it typically take to recover it? With victims' losses amounting to about $1.1 billion a year, identity theft reached the top of FCS's yearly list of consumer complaints for seven years in a row. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates more than the average victims that devote 170 to 300 hours trying to recover his or her identity and to resolve theft-relates issues. More than 110 million people in the US reported since January 2007 that have been packed letters from the different government branches, universities, corporations, banks, medical professionals, credit unions, no non-profit organizations and others notifying them that their personal information had either been stolen or lost. (Check out more statistics at our Identity Theft In
creselda cabal

Hass and Associates Cyber Security: How to Avoid Phishing Scams - 1 views

Phishing scams have been around for quite some time now. But not many people are aware of what it is and what it can do to them. It is simply a ploy used by fraudsters to lead you to divulge person...

Hass and Associates Cyber Security How to Avoid Phishing Scams

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Nicole Garcia

Hass and Associates Cyber Security: House passes cybersecurity bill as privacy concerns... - 1 views

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  • Nicole Garcia on 28 May 13
     
    The House of Representatives go for the second round of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act as it passed legislation on Thursday. The newly granted powers are intended to stop computer security threats against a company's rights and property. But the definitions are broad and vague. The terms allow purposes such as guarding against "improper" information modification and ensuring "timely" access to information, functions that are not necessarily tied to attacks. Once handed over, the government is able to use this information for investigating crimes that are unrelated to the underlying security threat and, more broadly, for "national security" purposes, which is a poorly defined term that includes "threats to the United States, its people, property, or interests" and "any other matter bearing on United States national or homeland security." The bill's vague definitions like "cybersecurity purpose" and "cybersecurity system" also raise the frightening possibility of a company using aggressive countermeasures. If a company wants to combat a threat, it is empowered to use "cybersecurity systems" to identify and obtain "cyber threat information." But the bill does not define exactly how far a company can go, leaving it open to the possibility of abuse. The bill drew support from House Democrats, passing on a bipartisan vote of 288-127, although the White House repeated its veto threat on Tuesday if further civil liberties protections are not added. Some lawmakers and privacy activists worry that the legislation would allow the government to monitor citizens' private information and companies to misuse it. U.S. authorities have recently elevated the exposure to Internet hacks and theft of digital data to the list of top threats to national security and the economy. Though thousands of companies have long been losing data to hackers in China and elsewhere, the number of parties publicly admitting such loss has been
  • Nicole Garcia on 28 May 13
     
    http://hassassociates-online.com/articles/2013/04/23/house-passes-cybersecurity-bill-as-privacy-concerns-linger/ The House of Representatives go for the second round of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act as it passed legislation on Thursday. The newly granted powers are intended to stop computer security threats against a company's rights and property. But the definitions are broad and vague. The terms allow purposes such as guarding against "improper" information modification and ensuring "timely" access to information, functions that are not necessarily tied to attacks. Once handed over, the government is able to use this information for investigating crimes that are unrelated to the underlying security threat and, more broadly, for "national security" purposes, which is a poorly defined term that includes "threats to the United States, its people, property, or interests" and "any other matter bearing on United States national or homeland security." The bill's vague definitions like "cybersecurity purpose" and "cybersecurity system" also raise the frightening possibility of a company using aggressive countermeasures. If a company wants to combat a threat, it is empowered to use "cybersecurity systems" to identify and obtain "cyber threat information." But the bill does not define exactly how far a company can go, leaving it open to the possibility of abuse. The bill drew support from House Democrats, passing on a bipartisan vote of 288-127, although the White House repeated its veto threat on Tuesday if further civil liberties protections are not added. Some lawmakers and privacy activists worry that the legislation would allow the government to monitor citizens' private information and companies to misuse it. U.S. authorities have recently elevated the exposure to Internet hacks and theft of digital data to the list of top threats to national security and the economy. Though thousands of companies have
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Hass & Associates Online Reviews: Protect Your Identity at All Costs - 1 views

Durban - Identity theft is rising in South Africa with thieves costing the economy more than R1 billion every year - and KwaZulu-Natal is providing rich pickings for them. According to a recent st...

Protect your identity at all costs Hass & Associates Online Reviews

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Abigail Jones

Hass & Associates Online Reviews: 10 Cyber Security Tips for Small Businesses - 2 views

Broadband and information technology are powerful tools for small businesses to reach new markets and increase sales and productivity. However, cyber security threats are real and businesses should...

10 cyber security tips for small businesses Hass & Associates Online Reviews

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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Identity Theft - 2 views

Identity theft has become one of the biggest concerns for Americans. However, it is also one of the most misunderstood subjects among consumers. We are always looking for ways to protect ourselves ...

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Identity Theft

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Hass & Associates Online Reviews: The Naked Truth About Internet Security - 3 views

At ProgrammableWeb's API conference next week in London (Sept 24-26), my keynote session will identify patterns in some of the recent cybersecurity transgressions, what could have been done to stop...

The Naked Truth About Internet Security Hass & Associates Online Reviews

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Hewlett-Packard partners with cybersecurity firm FireEye - 1 views

The prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye, Inc. and tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) recently announced a partnership to develop advanced threat protection. Hass and Associates Cyber Security percei...

Hass and Associates Cyber Security Hewlett-Packard partners with cybersecurity firm FireEye

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josh mae cruz

Hass & Associates Online Reviews: Aaron Swartz Can't Fight the New Cybersecurity Bill, ... - 1 views

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Hass & Associates Online Reviews Aaron Swartz Can't Fight the New Cybersecurity Bill So We Must Do It

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  • josh mae cruz on 24 Jul 14
     
    In late 2011 and early 2012, activists, progressive politicians and Internet companies led in part by Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz came together to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Advertised as measures against copyright infringement, the bills would have opened any website that contained copyrighted material it was not authorized to publish on any of its pages to a forced shutdown. A site that unknowingly held a copyrighted image in a comment section, for instance, would have been eligible as a violator. Virtually everyone was susceptible to closure. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) followed SOPA and PIPA in April 2012. CISPA was worse than its predecessors, proposing that private companies be allowed to share user information, a provision that would have violated many privacy protections of the Internet. Recognizing this, Swartz fought again. "It sort of lets the government run roughshod over privacy protections and share personal data about you," he said of the bill at the time. Again, he prevailed. Now, a year and a half after Swartz killed himself, there is the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. CISA is a lot like CISPA, but could end up being even worse. Privacy and civil rights groups including the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are standing up to fight it. In an article about the bill, the ACLU's Sandra Fulton wrote: CISA "poses serious threats to our privacy, gives the government extraordinary powers to silence potential whistleblowers, and exempts these dangerous new powers from transparency laws."
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Protect yourself from phishing attacks - 0 views

The term 'phishing' derives from the idea of fishing -- fishing for information. It refers to a type of internet fraud that attempts to collect sensitive financial information. Typically, a fraudul...

Protect yourself from phishing attacks

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Christine Smith

World first cyber security training centre opens in Bristol: Hass & Associates Online R... - 1 views

From left, Brian Lord OBE, managing director for cyber at PGI, Karen Bradley, Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime, and Vice Admiral Sir Tim McClement, chairman of PGI, during the live h...

World first cyber security training centre opens in Bristol Hass & Associates Online Reviews

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Nellie Lowkie

Hass and Associates: Twitter kliver upp säkerhet mot cyber-rovdjur - 1 views

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Hass and Associates Cyber Twitter steps up security against cyber-predators

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  • Nellie Lowkie on 29 Nov 13
     
    Källa: http://rt.com/news/twitter-security-protect-encryption-196/ Twitter strama upp IT-säkerhet för att skydda användarna från online snooping. Det sociala nätverket följer i fotspåren av Facebook och Google, som båda vidtog åtgärder för att skydda användardata i kölvattnet av NSA spionen skandalen. Sociala meddelandetjänsten meddelade det var genomföra framåt sekretess protokoll "som ett led i vår fortsatta strävan att hålla våra användares information så säker som möjligt." Införandet av protokollet skyddar krypterad information även om en dekrypteringsnyckel används för att försöka bryta in i den. "Forward secrecy är bara den senaste sätt där Twitter försöker försvara och skydda användarens röst," skrev Twitter i ett uttalande på dess teknikers blogg. Google, Dropbox, Facebook och Tumblr har alla installerade framåt sekretess i ett försök att skydda internet-sekretess. Tjänsten har nästan ingen märkbar effekt på användarupplevelsen, förutom en liten tidsförskjutning när folk loggar in. De data som skyddas med ny hård-till-spricka koder kommer att omfatta tweets publiceras på mikro-blogger hemsida, men också privata meddelanden. Nedfallet från NSA spionen skandalen tidigare har i år orsakat ett antal webbplatser att vidta ytterligare säkerhetsåtgärder att omintetgöra online spioneri. Dokument läcka till tryck av tidigare NSA entreprenören Edward Snowden avslöjade att byrån samlar cyber data i stor skala, förbi Internetsäkerhet. Mer relaterat innehåll: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Hass-Associates-Cyber-Security-david-4937108 http://hassassociates-online.com/ http://hassassociates-online.com/articles/
Lorenzo Blauch

Phishing Scam Ensnares Almost 2,000 Justice Department Staff - 2 views

OTTAWA - Many of the Justice Department's finest legal minds are falling prey to a garden-variety Internet scam. An internal survey shows almost 2,000 staff were conned into clicking on a phoney "...

Phishing Scam Ensnares Almost 2 000 Justice Department Staff

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Hass and Associates Cyber Security Sound Business Advice: Seven tips to proactively pre... - 1 views

The personal battle of owner-operators against fraudsters For autonomous entrepreneurs, fraud is a truly ominous and pervading risk. Private businesses are very susceptible to the threat of fraud b...

Hass and Associates Cyber Security Sound Business Advice: Seven tips to proactively prevent fraud

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