Weekend Reading
A quick thought from Andy Sernovitz on how to make it easier for your employees to get security (or anything else) right.
The danger to businesses from hackers is not going away anytime soon since it keeps getting easier to become a cyber criminal.
And since countries won’t cooperate with each other, it’s difficult to catch the bad guys sometimes.
Criminals are now breaking into gas pumps to steal credit card data, which makes the card theft nearly impossible to detect. Time to go back to cash?
Weekend Reading
A Realistic ~12 Step Program for Securing Your Small Business
10 Ways to Protect Your Company from Social Media Hacker Attacks
Your Business Backup Plan — Why You Need One
Privacy Tips for Small Businesses
Maine Firm Sues Bank After $588,000 Cyber Heist
Cyber threats adopting new tactics
Microsoft to release free security software soon
Easy Offsite Backups
Just plug in one of these disk docking stations to a USB port on your computer and you’ll be ready to backup your computer anytime you need. Put a disk drive in the docking station, run your backup, remove the disk and take it home or lock it in a fireproof safe. Now you’ve got a secure backup of your PC.
If you buy a few disks, you can get a rotation going so you always have more than one backup in case one fails or you discover you’ve been infected with a virus. It’s a good feeling to know you have more than one backup you can go to just in case.
The company that makes this docking station also has some new options that look pretty useful.
Weekend Reading
Malware authors are opportunists, always looking for the latest news they can use to spread their malicious software. This time it was the death of Patrick Swayze.
Malware lingers months on infected PCs – This is why it’s important to keep your PC patched and your anti-virus up-to-date.
Data Breach Highlights Role Of ‘Money Mules’
Create and keep track of secure passwords
If you’re still running Windows 2000, time to think about upgrading. Microsoft ending security support for Windows Server 2000
Top 10 Tactics for Protecting Your Stuff
Cyber Crooks Target Public & Private Schools
Weekend Reading
Cyber Thieves Steal $447,000 From Wrecking Firm- Brian Krebs describes how one business got hacked and provides some suggestions for protecting your business.
Here’s another story from Brian about a school system that lost more than $150,000 due to an attack by cyber thieves.
Microsoft Updates for September 2009 – Microsoft released their monthly patches this week. Did you apply them? If you don’t have auto-update turned on, visit http://update.microsoft.com to get the latest patches.
Just another reason to never, ever send anything you really want to keep private via email. Plus some tips for keeping your accounts a little more secure.