Posts Tagged ‘Protecting’

PROTECTING YOUR LIVELIHOOD: ID theft on the rise in the city
ROANOKE RAPIDS — Keep your eyes on your wallet when you’re in the store, shred your mail and if your wallet gets stolen, cancel your credit cards immediately.

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Phishing scams are a kind of semantic attack on computer systems that target the users of computer systems, rather than the system itself. Phishing is estimated to have cost over $3 billion in losses in 2008, with criminals impersonating banks, e-commerce sites, retail sites, and universities to trick people into giving them passwords or credit card information. Phishing attacks have also been used to steal sensitive information from corporations and governments, including the US Department of Defense. This talk will present ongoing research in protecting people from phishing attacks. To see more videos from the University of Washington visit uwtv.org.

Protecting Your Credit Score In Tough Economy

www.ibm.com Gordon Arnold of IBM speaks about the advantages of data encryption. As more confidential information is being stored on drives that may be resold, protecting your data is becoming more important. By encrypting data, information can either be securely withheld or accessed only when necessary by the proper users. [Gordon Arnold, IBM] My names Gordon Arnold. Im a senior technical staff member here at IBM. I also chair the Storage Security Industry Forum, which is part of the Storage Networking Industry Association. So I work on encryption, key management and the strategy for data security for IBM. Encryption has not been adopted, even though its a very good technique for data privacy, because users are concerned about performance, theyre concerned about losing their data, theyre concerned about the cost of managing the encryption and deploying the encryption, and theyre concerned about the complexity of how–what else is going to affect what theyre doing. Its appalling what people leave on disk drives in order to earn ten bucks on eBay. My favorite example there was a pharmacy that decided to resell their disk drive, and now everybodys medical records, insurance information, credit card information, was all available to this purchaser of a disk drive at $10. In fact, there are criminal organizations out purchasing used disk drives for precisely this purpose, which is why youd like to have a storage device where, when you power that storage device down, the data …

Total Wealth Management teaches you key concepts to managing your finances and creating a plan for your wealth. In this video, Jacob Cooper discusses how to protect your home equity on the Fox6 News.