Identity fraud is a big problem. It is a problem that affects everyone; directly or indirectly. Small Business Owners must be extra vigilant with their personal information and their sensitive business information. Due to the nature of small business,most times, there are not compliance departments and, usually, much is being done by a few people. This opens the door to security breaches and information leaks. Just think of documents that you must mail, email or fax; what sensitive information may be contained in them? Because most companies have information in the public domain or must transmit or send information into public domain. As a small business owner, you must be diligent with how data is managed and what leaves your company and travels through the public domain.

Interesting stats about Identity Theft

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Security vendor Symantec is warning U.S. residents not to be duped by cyber criminals who may use the upcoming collection of information for the U.S. Census to steal personal information.

The security vendor advised people not to fill out anything online or click on any links in e-mails related to the census because those communications are likely to be fraudulent.

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I do a good bit of Internet Marketing. I market Visions Business Services, LLC, my Technical Services Company, as well as various affiliate programs and software. I am posting to tell those that are interested or already do some marketing, about a wonderful marketing system that is working wonders for me!

Power List Marketing caught my eye recently. It was promoted to me as the total and complete marketers site, allowing you to capture names and email addresses from every click on the net and after looking into it – I have to say I am impressed.

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Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

You can die from someone else’s  misery – emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

This is another truth that you probably heard from you parents. “Birds of a feather flock together” , “Choose positive friends” , or this one I always loved:

My dad would say:
” Be wise my son, hang with three broke people, your bound to be the fourth one!”

In your business association, this is also true.

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Steven G. Atkinson

These are logical common sense tips to save money on your printing. Are you doing them?

Don’t Print Unless Needed
When you receive an email or reviewing a document, do you automatically print it to read and/or review? If the paper goes in the recycle bin shortly after being printed it’s not needed.

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How a denial-of-service attack works

How does this type of cyber attack work? And how can people make sure their computers are safe?

Here are some questions and answers about the attack.

Q: What is a “denial-of-service” attack?

A: Think about what would happen if you and all your friends called the same restaurant over and over and ordered things you didn’t even really want. You’d jam the phone lines and overwhelm the kitchen to the point that it couldn’t take any more new orders.

That’s what happens to Web sites when criminals hit them with denial-of-service attacks. They’re knocked offline by too many junk requests from computers controlled by the attackers.

The bad guys’ main weapons in such an attack are “botnets,” or networks of “zombie” personal computers they’ve infected with a virus. The virus lets the criminals remotely control innocent people’s machines, which are programmed to contact certain Web sites over and over until that overwhelms the servers that host the sites. The servers become too busy to respond to anything, and the Web site slows or stops working altogether.

It’s different from what usually happens when you try to access a Web site. Normally, you just make one request to see the site, and unless there’s a crush of traffic from something like a big news event, the servers respond well. Hijacked PCs, on the other hand, are programmed to send way more traffic than a normal user could generate on his or her own.

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Twitter has become one of the most popular social websites! People absolutely love it. It’s fast past and, due to message length restrictions, people can’t post their life story. Twitter is the social place-to-be!

Twitter is also the business place-to-be! Businesses have discovered that Twitter will get you clicks on your links and much better conversions, compared to other social websites!

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