Many people are looking for extra income especially in bad economy period. When people are seeking for fast money, they can be easily tricked and trapped by scams. Scams normally attract victim to fall into their traps by offering a chance to make big money in short period of time without much effort.

Some online paid survey could be one of the scams by offering you to take surveys and get paid.Online paid survey scam is existing, however, everyday there are still many victims get deceived by online paid survey companies’ incredibly good offer like: (more…)

Companies have put security concern as their key priority, especially those that are relying on ICT (information communication technology) for their business. There has been wide prospective to elaborate business by using computers and communication infrastructure, the easy and cost effective way. Producing a good security policy is targeting to protect companies from the viable liability and losses from any kind of network and information compromises. Security policy is a key tool necessary to properly address those important issues. (more…)

When you maintain an e-mail history you dont have to worry about forgetting what has been said throughout communications and you can run email searches on anyone you have saved correspondences with to find out more about them.
An email account has many benefits aside from simply allowing you to send and receive digital communications. You can also control the type of messages you receive (I.E. filter out spam), attach files to your mail, send automated replies if you are unavailable, save addresses, etc. However, despite all of its many fantastic characteristics, the one element that is truly wonderful and beneficial is the fact that you can maintain an emailing history. (more…)

Fingerprinting is a technique used by attackers to determine product and version information about operating systems and applications running on remote systems. The technique is called fingerprinting because each platform or version number for a software product gen¬erally has its own specific ways of responding to differ¬ent requests that uniquely identify it, (more…)

Incident response is planned action in response to adverse events affecting systems, networks, and data. Response to an incident can range from recording the incident to alerting an incident response team to initiating legal action against malicious individuals. The best way to deal with incidents affecting information security is to follow a planned approach laid out in a carefully developed security policy. (more…)

In my company, we kicked off the Information Security campaign about 4 years ago, and this was focused very heavily on IT staff and processes (insurance industry). At that time we had very few security skills in house, so we brought in an external trainer to deliver the Security Awareness training. We worked with the trainer to develop the course content, the baseline they had was good, but we wanted to added ten topics unique to our environment. (more…)

Being able to communicate by the use of email nowadays has opened great opportunities to all people who are hooked up on the internet. It serves all kinds of people and therefore millions of people around the world have email addresses. They use this email address to converse with many friends and colleagues, who they have met in the office, (more…)

Most people defined spyware and adware with the same term: sypware. But both actually have some differences in term on how they work and what is each purposes. Adware is installed with the user consent, mostly when users try to download other 3rd party software, adware is bundles with one. Ethically speaking, adware is legal to be installed in your PC. (more…)

Online stalking earns media attention, but how serious is the problem? This question is open to debate. A report prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice, and later reports that merely respond the same content, stated that the problem is pervasive and, using “back of the envelope,” calculations theorized that online stalking could be a crime with tens or hundreds of thousands of victims. The report, however, is sparse in actual support for these claims. In fact, it even cites a study conducted at the University of Cincinnati, of which the authors have stated does not measure the statistics that the Department of Justice cites the study to support. Essentially, there are no empirical scientific studies or data as to the scope of the problem. (more…)

In recent surveys, it is highlighted the importance for employers of having a well-drafted email use policy and internet use policy. Most employers take email use policy and internet access policy for important business reasons ranging from employee productivity reasoning to preventing hostile work environments.

A survey on Email Rules, Policies and Practices by American Management Association revealed that 75 percent of organizations in their survey had written policies concerning e-mail. (more…)