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By Googling the term ‘Firefox 7’, the first Google result appeared in the search result is a link from the website firefox7.org. Makes any sense? No, let’s give you a bit more information about Firefox and its original creators.

Mozilla is the name of the organization that develops Firefox web browser. So, naturally any major update for such a product would be enlisted under the website of the original organization. This means that, if Firefox 7 is the latest update of the web browser, it should be shown under the website of Mozilla and not in a website made solely under its name.

Hence, the search result shown by Google misleads the user to enter into an illegitimate website that doesn’t have anything to do with the original creator.  All you’ll find in that fake website is a bulk of promotional stuff about Firefox 7. While, at the bottom of the main page, you’ll find what appears like some legitimate Firefox 7 download links for MAC, Windows and Linux, but clicking on those links takes you, not to the legitimate Mozilla website but to a weblog created with the domain of mozilla.blogspot.com.

Before finding out exactly where these download links were directed to, we were of the opinion that this person is a fervent fan of Firfox 7 and dedicated a whole page in its name.  But, the discovery that those download links direct the user to a misleading Mozilla blogspot, it was clear that the creator of such a thing is either trying to earn some revenue over the good name of Mozilla and its browsers or he is trying to gain traffic to the website so that later on he can upload some malicious stuff to the server to be infused into the systems of every person coming to download Firefox 7.

Ironically, the site is appearing on first position in the Google search results for Firefox 7 and the person who is behind all this scam is certainly trying to gain some advantage over it. It is, however, pretty silly on the part of Mozilla team that they have not yet reported Google to block this site or pull down its page ranking for the reason of copyright or misleading content. For a web browser as popular as Firefox, it’s quite a big slip up on the part of Mozilla team for not having this domain registered already in their name so as to avoid any such thing from happening.

But, never too late for our readers as we are always here to keep you aware of everything that can compromise the security of your online as wells offline existence.

It is, therefore, advised to all of those people who want to upgrade their older Firefox browsers to the newer version to download the new update from the legitimate website of Mozilla only. All it requires is a bit of analytics and some of the awareness we spread, to spot the difference between the original and the fake one.   Always avoid falling into the traps of any fake third party website that might have some unfair motives attached with their smart moves. Beware and stay security aware!

 

 

Well, it most definitely is. So what can be done to avoid such an attack? Or at the very least, what exactly can be done to limit or minimize the potential for damage?
So, if you are a victim of a potential data breach or if you fear such an incident, do read the following guidelines to avoid such happening and stay safe from information theft.

Eye-out for phishing scams and malicious emails.

In case of getting your email address leaked in a data breach incidence, watch-out for scammers, spammers and malware authors that may attempt to populate your email inbox with misleading malicious emails containing fraudulent content masked as the one that comes from an authentic source. Refrain from downloading attachments from the emails that contain money refund offers, or a courier reaching your address asking for you to confirm your details or credits card updates. Always remember to back check the authentic sources by either calling them or visiting their website. Be on a lookout for any suspicious looking link in those emails or even those links that pops up when you visit any unknown website. Avoid any sort of drive by download on your way of surfing the internet. And never, ever click on ANYTHING that gives you a nagging feeling or appears suspicious or anonymous to you.

Always create a strong and hard-to-crack password

The second most important thing to be taken into consideration is the setting of your personal passwords. Whenever it comes to create a password for any account over internet, always create a password that makes a combination of alphanumeric characters. Do not use the same password for multiple accounts over internet. You can expose your online existence to more risks if you practice the use of same passwords for all of your accounts online. And this may be a good time to change your approach to passwords – check out our comprehensive tutorial on how to create a password that can be easy for you to remember but impossible for others to get even near to it.
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Use of a strong and reliable security program

Even if you have taken all the above preventive measures in due time, there is still a chance that hackers and other cyber criminals manage to break into your privacy walls and can attack directly at the sensitive information that you save on your systems. A good way to curb even the remotest chance of such an intrusion is to keep your files and folders locked and encrypted. Check out our security products that aim to serve you for the same purpose.

You may not be able to put a full stop to data breaches, but you can still have a way around them. Do something to protect your online existence and the information you store on your system. Be on your guard, and keep an eye out for anything suspicious at all times. Stay Safe.

Why was such sensitive data posted on a public forum without encryption and who would do such a thing are the questions to be raised now.

Firstly, HIPPA and HITECH acts in US require medical organizations to protect confidential data, but they outsource it to third parties, but it still can be kept safe by simply inserting a few more clauses in the contract that require them to keep the data well protected.
Secondly, our laws and attitudes need adjustment regarding protection of such data. You should treat data in the same manner even if it’s inside or outside.

Confidential information should not be considered “inside” or “outside”.

If your data requires protection when you are using it inside of your organization like while transferring it through USB flash drives, laptops and other gadgets then you should make sure that its safe when it’s on your (or your partner’s) servers and databases as well.

Rather than going after who got the data leaked, getting them fined and punished, it’s better to take precautionary measures and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Now is the high time to stop taking online and system based security of your data for granted and start giving firewalls, antivirus software programs and security applications a serious consideration.

Stay with us and get to know about how to separate least important data from the most critical one so that you identify which data is confidential and shouldn’t get leaked. Take all the steps needed in ensuring that you control that data and it remains safe.

Let’s take a good look at what they have planned for you this time!

Not many people are aware of the cunning ways these bad guys plan their scams in. And this time, using Western Union as bait clearly indentifies their target. Yes, you must have guessed it now. The aim, this time, is those people who either have someone living overseas or the person who lives overseas himself. They know that email communication is generally a preferred medium when distances take a longer figure between two ends and usually people living in overseas send their remittances via Western Union Money Transfer because of the feasibility and reliability factor being involved in here.

So, they designed their trap in exactly the way they know people would react it to. A malicious email containing a virus in its attachment and a subject of ‘MONEY TRANSFER INFORMATION’ from the source email looking nearly legitimate is the best trap for someone who is naïve as well as in a vulnerable state as he or she is expecting a remittance from abroad.

It was detected that the attachment containing ‘More information’ envelops a malware named as ‘Mal/Zbot-CX’.

“Mal/Zbot-U is a network-aware computer worm which attempts to replicate across existing networks. Mal/Zbot-U requests malicious files from the Internet and has the ability to send out email messages with a built-in SMTP client engine which can send private emails directly to a recipient mail server for malicious purposes. Mal/Zbot-U contains characteristics of an identified security risk and should be removed from the system.” – SpyWare Remove

Save you privacy and security from being seriously compromised and avoided opening attachments from emails that has anything to do with your money or the money you are likely to receive. Confirm the source first by either calling them or visiting their office physically. Moreover, keep your anti-virus software up-to-date. And last but the most important step that you must not forget is keeping your important data secured and encrypted.

Check out our top notch data security software programs and stay safe!

Not too much late!! We can still help you in fighting with these bad guys in protecting your confidential and personal data from ending up into wrong hands. We have covered almost every critical security issue in this article and you may also find a quick work around of these issues. Keep reading!
Open and unprotected networks are always a serious threat to the security of your data. All those ends of a network that are needed to be kept private and secure, if left unguarded ,can be highly prone to network hijacking and information theft. Because of not being able to be encrypted in its entirety, these networks can be hacked with little effort resulting into the invasion of your privacy and system integrity.

Not only can these open networks be a problem to its authorized users but people from outside the authorized circle may also get their data stolen if they happen to log into an unsecure and open network like these. The best and the most common example is open WiFi network.
Any person connected with an unsecure and unprotected network may get his data sniffed over when it either, goes out of the network or comes in.

Your passwords, something as important and dearest to you as your home or car key, can be conveniently copied using lots of advance network hijacking applications. Think of your oh-so-dearer Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn passwords going into wrong hands. Alarming it becomes when you use the same password for every online account you have.
To make it a bit more comprehendible, take the example of an online data exchange between a laptop and a wireless router.

Anyone within the range can use a packet-sniffing software to snivel into the transmission. Someone listening in can copy usernames and passwords, email and file transfers. Only those connections are secure that are made to a secure website, even across such a network, because the encryption originates at the website and extends to the user’s computer.

Hence, to keep your wireless LAN secured from local eavesdropping, all data that passes through the laptop and router must be encrypted using software security options built into the wireless router. In this case, the entire LAN broadcasts in an encrypted format. The router only decrypts LAN traffic to send it on to the Internet. This does not make surfing the Internet any more secure than it otherwise is, but it does eliminate risks associated with potential eavesdropping on the LAN side.

So, keep your online existence safe and secure by, at first, taking control of your network securing every entry point it has for the hackers to invade it through as well as try some top notch end-point security software to secure your computer data from local eavesdropping. Stay Safe

a) FedEx will never send this type of sensitive information about your parcel through an email attachment.
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b) Even if it does, it will never make this level of stupid spelling errors in an official email to its valued customer.

Do not give in to your curiosity and go on downloading the attachment in that fraudulent email because that attachment is not just a deceiving zip file, it’s actually a Trojan that gets installed in the system without asking the user’s permission or coming into his knowledge. This kind of Trojan is capable of launching pop ups alerting the user that his system has been infected with viruses. If you fall for these messages and click on one of those pop ups flashing on your screen, this Trojan will install a fake antivirus program in your computer that will launch itself automatically and start scanning the system for viruses and worms.

Alerting and scaring the user about false and exaggerated threats, the antivirus program will fool the user into purchasing its full version- the most common way to trick people into handing over their personal information.
So, if you come across any such email, you are advised not to fall for it. But, if in any case you get infected by this attachment, we have some instructions for you to remove this Trojan.

1. Reboot your system and press F8 to enter into Safe Mode with Networking.
2. Download MalwareBytes to your desktop and rename it to Explorer.exe as Windows Security 2011 blocks the program named MalwareBytes. If you can’t download files, try using another machine that’s not infected and saving the files to a flash drive or other storage device.
3. Download and Run RKILL to stop all background processes related to Windows Security 2011.
4. Launch MalwareBytes and run a (Full Scan) to remove infections.
5. Delete the file called “Hosts” in C:WindowsSystem32DriversetcHOSTS and add the default Hosts file (below) for your operating system in C:WindowsSystem32Driversetc

This is how to can say stay safe from this Trojan even if you get infected by it. Be careful about what you click over internet as not everything is truly what it appears to you. Keep reading our articles and
Stay Safe!!

it’s a grim responsibility and a general risk affecting both the corporate and the global world.
When we talk about a cyber security plan that every business needs in this modern age, we’re not only referring to the installation and proper implementation of security programs, establishing a whole infrastructure but it also covers the pre-established relationships in the government and law enforcement sector- someone who you can give a call to, if anything unfavorable happens. Practicing a comprehensive security strategy while having a plan in place ensures your customers that you have been maintaining an infrastructure that is utterly responsible and advanced. It ultimately impacts your company brand and customer trust.
In this age of modern technology, cyber security has been at serious take when a great number of hoaxes, scams, malwares and deadly viruses are being designed and infiltrated into the networks of much big and small sized organization. It’s an adversary to deal with and which require proper implementation of security methods and policies.
Here are few tips that you can follow:
After establishing basic security practices to protect your sensitive information, communicate those practices to all your employees. Describe how to protect sensitive customer information and guide them about information handling. Now if you want them to abide by the instructions you laid down about data security, announce the penalties they could be charged to if they deviate from these policies.
You responsibility doesn’t end here. Employee awareness is not the only step that you should take, but installation
All operating system vendors regularly provide patches and updates to their products to correct security problems and improve functionality. Configure all software to install such updates automatically.
Regularly backup the data on every computer used in your business. Critical data includes word processing documents, electronic spreadsheets, databases, financial files, human resources files and accounts receivable/payable files. Backup data automatically if possible, or at least weekly.
Prevent access or use of business computers by unauthorized individuals. Laptops can be particularly easy targets for theft, so make sure they are stored and locked up when unattended.
To hide your Wi-Fi network, set-up your wireless access point or router so it does not broadcast the network name also known as the Service Set Identifier (SSID). In addition, make sure to turn on the encryption so that passwords are required for access. Lastly, it is critical to change the administrative password that was on the device when it was first purchased.
Setup a separate account for each individual and require that strong passwords be used for each account. Administrative privileges should only be given to trusted IT staff and key personnel.
Do not provide any one employee with access to all data systems. Employees should only be given access to the specific data systems that they need for their jobs, and should not be able to install any software without permission.
Passwords that stay the same, will, over time, be shared and become common knowledge to coworkers and can be easily hacked. Passwords should be changed at least every three months.

Understandably, organizations go to great lengths to protect valuable data that’s on paper and disks. They’re kind of assets kept in locked doors and vaults.

Yet, organizations often fail to adequately protect digital information on their IT networks and hard drives-Information that is increasingly vulnerable to accidental loss and theft because of its confidentiality and organization dependency.

Much of the data so critical to organization is highly sought by cyber criminals. This includes social security numbers, credit card numbers, confidential health records and bank account records, competitive intelligence and proprietary company information.

We are all aware of the potential harm data breaches can inflict on businesses, agencies, health care organizations and schools as well as the individual involved.

Whenever a breach occurs, executives face a public relations crisis that affects their organization’s reputation and ultimately impact their bottom line. In regulative market such as finance, government and health care, the consequences of non-compliance are COSTLY, as our legal liabilities that result from leaked personal data.

It could be as simple as a misguided email, as fast as a mouse-click. Once corporate data is exposed, its too late. Without proactive smart email security, organizations might as well hand over the keys to the vaults. It’s all about prevention.

So, why is data loss prevention challenging for many organizations.

Once, because too often businessmen think that traditional security is too adequate for their data. However new threats require new proactive solutions.

Two, most email security solutions simply block content based on file-type keywords or URLs. This is partially effective because the content within the email never gets scanned. And It often lead to false positives and false negatives. Either impeding an employee part activity by blocking legitimate communications, or worse, failing to protect data loss entirely.

Third, because many email DLP solutions are cost-prohibitive, organizations are forced to settle for less effective and reactive DLP protections.

Now, to solve these challenges businesses need to dig deeper. Stay with us to find more about it. Keep reading our articles and stay informed.

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Data leak prevention & copy protection programs are your only saviors. These applications help you lets you prevent copying of sensitive information to any unauthorized portable device including USB drives, external hard drives, memory cards, digital cameras, iPods, CDs/DVDs, Network Computers and more.

Software that allows you to block external devices from connecting to your computer are usually permission based utilities, which once installed, allows only users with the correct password to have access to the computer. A strong data protection mechanism, the application also maintains a list of all authorized drives and devices that you want access to on a regular basis, while blocking all non-authorized USB and external drives.

The added capability to allow you to monitor and keep a record of all devices that have tried to access your PC can spearhead hack monitoring and allows you to prevent data-leak, illegal copying, and duplication of your private and classified data and information. With strong monitoring system and active logs detailing all illegal program deletion attempts, unauthorized uninstall attempts as well as invalid password attempts, you are in very safe hands. The added feature of operating in complete stealth mode can prevent the application from being discovered on your computer.

A device control and strict access management software not only offers strong data leak prevention for your files and folder but also blocks USB Drives or External Drives that do not belong to you from accessing your data, including drives and devices that are used for transmitting malicious ware across networks.

Basic benefits of using a data protection-cum-data leak prevention software

Prevent theft of your data!
Install once and block ALL such drives and devices that do not belong to you. Share your PC without the fear of data theft.

Simple and Effective Device List Management Console
All activities from all blocked devices, drives, unauthorized log attempts, uninstall attempts, and invalid password attempts are maintained for active list management.

Data Leak Prevention at its Best!
Use USB Block to protect your data and information against data-leak & data theft.

Strong Monitoring Of All Activities
Check detailed reports & logs to regularly monitor which device was authorized, when and by whom.

Protect your PC from Viruses and Spyware
Stay in control of who can access your files and folders. Prevent all possible malicious attempts by hackers or crackers to install unwanted spying software on your computer.