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How To Protect Your Small Business From Identity Theft

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:28 PM ET | Jun 23, 2009

With friends, family, and co-workers like these…In the spirit of opening your eyes but not inducing paranoia, when small businesses fall victim to identity theft, someone they know is more often than not the guilty party whose tampering has a direct impact on their credit standing.

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New All-On-One Panda Security Solution Targets Small Businesses

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:20 AM ET | Jun 19, 2009

In the same spirit that multifunction printers consolidate four separate space-hogging machines into a single piece of hardware, unified threat management (UTM) solutions combine multiple types of security products into one package that aim to keep customers' networks safe.

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Beyond Google Alerts: Free Tools That Track What's Being Said About You Online

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:35 AM ET | Jun 2, 2009

What are your customers and competitors saying about you and your business/brand online? Could an employee be intentionally/unintentionally divulging private details about your company? Are you on top of the latest industry news, research, and trends that would influence decisions you make about your business?

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How To Spot Counterfeit Cashier Checks

Courtesy of Business Know-How 12:00 PM ET | May 14, 2009

I love dumb criminal stories.

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D-Link Bolsters Small-Office Router Security

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:59 AM ET | May 12, 2009

The typical small-business owner wears as many caps as the mustachioed peddlar in the popular kiddie book Caps For Sale. But few are truly equipped when a hacker decides to monkey around with their networks.

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5 Free Tools That Find Your Deleted Data

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:00 AM ET | May 11, 2009

You know that burning feeling deep in your belly when you realize you've misfired an inappropriate or scathing email (statement, not question). It's the same one that strikes when you realize some important data has gone missing from your computer.

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AVG Releases LinkScanner For Safe Internet Surfing

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:03 AM ET | Apr 20, 2009

A ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -- especially when said prevention comes free and safeguards your computer from time-consuming and cost-draining viruses.

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10 Security Best Practices To Make Your Business Safer In A Recession

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 08:06 AM ET | Apr 15, 2009

With the recession, it's tempting to cut corners anywhere you can, but security isn't the place to do it -- you may save some short term cash, but recovering from a breach will cost you much more. Fortunately, keeping your business secure isn't just about spending more.

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DataMotion's Preferred9: Email Security That's Meant To Be Shared

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:19 PM ET | Mar 23, 2009

Ensuring the security of your outbound email should be a no-brainer element of small-business communications with employees, partners, customers, vendors, and, heck, even the man on the moon. But once those parties on the other end have your message, then what? How do you know those email recipients are as diligent about email security as you are?

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LinkedIn Gets SuckedIn To Malware Mania

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:27 PM ET | Jan 8, 2009

Bad news in threes? Hackers are having a fun time with social networking sites, first with Facebook last month, then Twitter earlier this week -- and now LinkedIn.

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Sidestep The Twitter Bug

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:37 PM ET | Jan 5, 2009

A phishing campaign that appears suspiciously similar to one that hit Facebook last month is now working its way around Twitter. In 140 characters or less.

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Watch Out For Holiday Shoplifters

Courtesy of Business Know-How 11:59 AM ET | Dec 11, 2008

The holiday season should be one of joy and happiness -- even with a suffering economy. Unfortunately, this time of year also brings out the thieves, robbers and crooks.

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Koobface Virus Still Stalking Facebook

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:07 PM ET | Dec 9, 2008

A slimy worm is leaving its gooey trail across Facebook, posing as members' friends to ultimately hijack their machines via bogus e-mail that's delivered via the social network's messaging system.

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Easy Ways To Secure Your iPhone

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:18 PM ET | Dec 8, 2008

Q3 sales for smartphones may have gone in the same direction as the rest of the economy, but let's not overlook the one bright spot that's as shiny as the screen on a brand-new iPhone.

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Wednesday's Woman: Identity Theft Assistance Center's Anne Wallace

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:54 PM ET | Dec 3, 2008

Imagine applying for credit and being told the only piece missing from your paperwork is a man's signature. Fortunately, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, enacted in 1974, changed that -- but not without the help of Anne Wallace, who today has turned her attention to helping identity-theft victims get back on their feet.

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Adobe Patches Critical Reader Flaw

Posted by Gayle Kesten 05:53 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

Better check which version of Adobe Reader you're running. If, like mine, it's 8.1 or earlier, you might want to think twice before opening a PDF.

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Are You Ready For Disaster?

Courtesy of Business Know-How 12:32 PM ET | Sep 18, 2008

Considering the hurricanes that have been sweeping through the country, it seems appropriate that September is National Preparedness Month. And as we all know, Sept. 11 made it seven years since the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by terrorists.

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Inexpensive Antispam Software Can Save Billions of Dollars

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:09 PM ET | Jul 25, 2008

The stories are all over cyberspace: "Spam King" Edward Davidson, who escaped from a minimum-security federal prison last weekend -- barely two months into his 21-month sentence for tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers -- allegedly killed himself, though not before murdering his wife and young daughter.

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The New Bonnie & Clyde

Courtesy of Business Know-How 05:28 PM ET | Jul 24, 2008

In the 1930s Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow terrorized five states by murdering people and robbing banks and stores. On May 23, 1934, they met their end in an ambush and fatal shootout in Louisiana.

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Guard Your Laptop While Traveling

Courtesy of Business Know-How 08:23 AM ET | Jul 3, 2008

While traveling by train from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, I sat near a man who spent a portion of the time working on his laptop, but then fell asleep with his laptop on the seat beside him.

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The Upside of Being IT-Less

Posted by Gayle Kesten 04:00 PM ET | Jun 19, 2008

I just discovered the bright side of not having your own IT staff.

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Security Warning For Windows Users Running Safari

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:17 PM ET | Jun 2, 2008

The classic one-two punch has gone high tech: Microsoft is cautioning customers against using Apple's Safari browser to access the Internet from their Windows Vista or XP machines due to yet another flaw involving Internet Explorer.

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Symantec Upgrades Antivirus Software

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:38 AM ET | Mar 5, 2008

Symantec wants to ensure your small computer corner of the world is safer with a new version of its Norton 360 antivirus software.

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Love Means Never Opening Unsolicited Email

Posted by Gayle Kesten 09:42 AM ET | Feb 14, 2008

Two Valentine's Day cards were perched against my now-filled coffee cup this morning -- a sweet and trustworthy way start to my day. But beware the virtual love, lest your day will quickly sour.

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Home Networks Need Disaster Recovery Too

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:16 PM ET | Jan 14, 2008

If you run a really small business out of your home office, you may think you don't need to worry about disaster recovery. Think again.

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