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Trademarking your business is very essential for you to survive in the market. Without the trademark, it becomes tough to compete with your competitors when they all have their trademarks. However, when trademarking your business, you need to follow some tips and tricks that will make your ... Views: 147
Just like the normal safes, fireproof safes are good safes with the difference being that. They are likely going to endure hot temperatures if your home or office happens to catch fire while you are on vacation or away for one reason or another. You will most likely want to ensure that the most ... Views: 164
The Covid-19 pandemic is still ongoing, and in these months, the cybersecurity spheres have experienced a lot of cyber attacks owing to the massive opportunity that the pandemic has provided. Various companies have undergone massive data breaches worth millions and even included phishing or ... Views: 270
Are you the owner of medical practice? One of your biggest sources of concern is sure to be the security of your health records. This is a vast mine of data that hackers, phishers, and cybercriminals of all types would love to get their hands on. It's more crucial than ever to keep these records ... Views: 282
When have you checked your email, how often have you received an alarming message from your bank or other company saying that your account is in danger of being closed? E-mails, text messages and payment requests, they may just contain bad links. These messages often seem reliable, but are ... Views: 171
There is one thing that all business owners must have, and it is a security system. Theft and damage to property is a problem for companies. No business owner wants their property or money to be stolen, or worse, their clients or employees to be harmed by a crime.
How do you protect your ... Views: 250
Identity theft is a term that means different things to different people. What one person calls identity theft is often different from another person's definition of the word. The meaning of the word "idiot," for instance, is different from a person who uses this term to describe someone else. ... Views: 307
Are you newly working from home? Or are you an old pro? Either way, it is likely you are using some form of remote desktop protocol. Those of us who have been working home as our primary means of earning a living, know these tools very well and are accustomed to eliminating the various ... Views: 298
Once again, tax time has rolled around, and though you technically have until April 15th, it’s always best to file a bit earlier…especially if you want to avoid setting yourself up for ID theft.
How Could Filing Taxes Compromise Your Identity?
Here’s how you could become a ... Views: 311
Hey YOU, SMB, yeah I’m talking to you. There are a number of things that you can do to not only protect your personal information, but also the information you have in your business:
Hire a professional – It is entirely possible the small business was hacked because they did not ... Views: 288
A PAN card is a permanent account number with a ten-character alphanumeric identifier. It is issued by the Indian Income Tax Department, in the form of a laminated "PAN card", to any person who applies for it or to whom the department allots the number without an application.
A PAN card is a ... Views: 759
You might not realize it, but your electronic devices may be tracking you. They know what you are doing, what you are reading, and the things you like to do. In almost every case, you give these devices permission to collect this info when you start using them. Here are some tips to help you ... Views: 323
If you are active in the manufacturing industry, chances are that you are dealing with patents, or at least have heard of patents. This can be patents on inventions of your own company, but also patents from suppliers, customers or competitors. Below you can read what you need to know for sure ... Views: 1500
Our world has dramatically changed and we rely on technology for everything we do. According to recent studies, there is a new victim of identity theft every two seconds. Identity theft and cybercrime could happen to anyone.
In this video, Sandra Estok shares her first-hand story of identity ... Views: 259
You have likely heard of the dangers of using unsecure public Wi-Fi, so you know that hackers are out there snooping. It is pretty easy to hack into a laptop or mobile device that is on a public Wi-Fi connection with no protection. Hackers can read your emails, steal passwords, and even hijack ... Views: 348
If you looked at a photo of a baby boy, could you ever predict that he would grow up to become a sexual predator? Probably not. However, a study shows that men who commit sexual crimes are more likely to have something called an “anxious attachment” to their mothers due to feeling ... Views: 312
Do you Uber? If you do, you probably feel pretty safe getting into the car of a stranger. However, you might not be as safe as you think.
Most people take for granted that Uber does background checks on its drivers, but there are actually a number of shady drivers who have recently been ... Views: 288
How prepared are you for a disaster? Most of us are not prepared, at all, yet two-thirds of us live in an area where we are at a moderate to very high risk of experiencing a natural disaster. Here are a few things you should do, today, to start preparing for a “just in case” ... Views: 276
Most of us have no idea when a disaster is about to strike, and even if we do have a little warning, it’s very possible that things can go very wrong.
This is where you can put a business continuity plan to good use. What does this do? It gives your business the best odds of success ... Views: 281
You have surely heard of hackers, but do you really know how they work? Hackers are well known for being bad guys, though there are certainly good hackers out there too. Here’s a brief guide to help you understand how a hacker can hack:
Directions for Hacking are Easy to Come ... Views: 284
Have you heard of SIM swapping? It’s a new trick that hackers are using to get money and mess up your life.
What is SIM Swapping?
So, what is SIM swapping? It’s when a hacker tricks your cell phone company into thinking that you have activated your SIM card on another phone. In ... Views: 556
Have you ever seen a house and thought…I wish I could afford that? Some people actually try it, but let this story be a lesson learned: if you can’t afford the cost of a house, you probably shouldn’t try to buy it.
Pamela Chandler was arrested and now faces forgery charges ... Views: 361
What does it mean to be a Police Officer?
Police personnel and the armed forces have remained the fascination of many people. Not only men, even women in large numbers dream of wearing the uniform, working in a disciplined environment, and serving the country and its citizens, as police ... Views: 573
You might be surprised to know that more than 3.4 billion fake emails are sent around the globe each day. What does this mean? It means that almost every company out there is vulnerable to cybercrimes in the form of “spoofing” and “phishing.” On top of this, most ... Views: 306
If you are the parent of a child or teen who uses the internet, here are some stats you need to know:
Stats About Teens and the Internet
Teens think that the internet is mostly private
They also think that they can make the best decisions for their life online
They believe they are safe ... Views: 317
There are a number of ways that you can protect yourself online, and one of the things you can do is to start using two-factor authentication.
You probably have seen two-factor authentication even if you aren’t sure what it is. For instance, if you do online banking, your bank might ... Views: 306
How to save money by using a VPN: the things you have never heard about
"Big Brother is watching you" is not just a motto from the Orwell's book but an everyday reality. Nowadays even a teenager knows that our online activity is far from being private. What sites we visit, what people we talk ... Views: 330
This post takes a hard and honest look at whats happening right now. You either “get it” or you are a victim of whats going on. Victims who read this will trash it and deny the reality of what they read. Denial is warm and comfortable. The truth is cold and can hurt. And nobody likes ... Views: 328
DoorDash has admitted that it has been the victim of a data breach, which has affected about 4.9 million merchants and people.
In a recent blog post, DoorDash announced that it noticed some odd activity early in September from a third-party service. After looking into it, the company found ... Views: 328
YouTube uses a recommendation algorithm to help people view things they’d like to see. Recently, the algorithm seemingly encouraged pedophiles (YouTube would have no way of knowing this) to watch videos of children playing at home, videos that the family members uploaded.
A report from ... Views: 280
Hackers are making a lot of money thanks to phishing attacks these days, and now they are also focusing on gift card scams. One of the most notorious scam groups, Scarlet Widow, which is out of Nigeria, has been boosting its efforts to scam people with gift cards since 2015. This group generally ... Views: 325
Quest Diagnostics is a US-based company that provides medical testing services, and announced that it used third-party billing collection companies that were hit by a severe data breach. In fact, about 11.9 million Quest customers were affected.
The compromised information could include ... Views: 318
Do you remember the famous attacks of the Wannacry, Cerber or Cryptolocker ransomware? Are you thinking of generating an anti-ransomware policy to protect your company?
Ransomware may seem like a tsunami that as soon as it arrives at our company sweeps it. However, there is Zonealarm anti ... Views: 283
Approximately 885 million digital documents have been exposed from mortgage deals that date back to 2003. First American Financial Corp is a provider of title insurance, as well as other services for the mortgage and real estate industries, and it allowed millions of records to be exposed ... Views: 306
One of the biggest threats that taxpayers are facing these days is an aggressive scam where criminals call victims and pretend to be IRS agents. The goal? To steal money.
All year but especially during tax filing season, the IRS will see a big surge in the number of scam calls, which tell ... Views: 314
If all a gunman, who opened fire and randomly killed nine people, wanted was 15 minutes of fame, he could have achieved this running naked into the field at a major league baseball game.
At least one criminologist believes that the driving force behind mass shootings is a desire for celebrity ... Views: 301
This entire post is brutal and for some, hard to read. But if there is a woman or girl in your life might benefit from being freaked out, read it and forward and share it.
We’ve all heard about the man approaching a child, showing her a picture of his “lost” puppy, asking ... Views: 255
Women should never take a ride from a stranger because it’s dangerous – unless she’s paying the driver???
Wrong, of course. Uber and Lyft drivers provide paid rides to strangers as requested via the Uber and Lyft apps.
As of August 2018 WhosDrivingyou.org tallied the number ... Views: 319
It’s fair to wonder how many people would still be alive today if there were never any such thing as a life insurance policy. Personally I can’t imagine NOT having a life insurance policy if you have children 17 and under. But the below info might ring true for some of you.
An ... Views: 297
Sell something called “SuperParent” or even the actual FlexiSpy — and all is swell. Frankly, I’m not opposed to monitoring a child’s phone, kids shouldn’t have phones anyways.
But sell something called “iStalk” or “StalkU,” well ... Views: 293
“Tom” can also be “Alicia.”
Nevertheless, it happens often enough to come up every so often in a crime documentary aired on the Investigation Discovery channel.
The premise is as follows:
A person is SO convinced that their spouse or soon-to-be ex-spouse is going ... Views: 276
Riviera Beach, a city in Florida, has agreed to pay a $600,000 ransom to hackers who attacked its network.
This week, the City Council voted to pay the demands after coming up with no other option to meet the demands of the hackers. It seems that the hackers got access to the system when a ... Views: 273
The Boy Scouts of American is no stranger to controversy, and now new information is shedding light on how many leaders were actually involved in a sex abuse scandal.
According to official records of the Boy Scouts, more than 12,000 children were sexually assaulted while in the scout program. ... Views: 287
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a totally burglar-proof home, but there is also no burglar who can get into any home. By taking a few steps and using some specific security measures, you can make your home ALMOST burglar-proof.
When most homeowners consider security, they usually ... Views: 289
It only took a minute for 12-year old Erik Robinson to die while playing a macabre game called the “Choking Game.” His mother desperately tried to save her son when she found him with a Boy Scout rope around his neck, but it was too late. Erik was brain dead due to lack of oxygen, ... Views: 383
Credit card fraud has many shapes and forms. The purpose of doing credit card fraud also varies. Some frauds are done in order to perform a huge transaction and some are done to purchase expensive goods for free. Any financial institution is exposed to a large number of attacks that are ... Views: 300
A teenager in Alaska, Denali Brehmer, killed her best friend after a man she met on the internet offered her $9 million to commit the murder. Brehmer, who is 18-years old, killed her 19-year old friend, Cynthia Hoffman, by shooting her in the back of the head at the urging of Darin Schilmiller, ... Views: 367
The police in Port St. Lucie Florida have claimed that scammers are now posting homes as available for rent or purchase. You rent/purchase the home by putting a deposit down on the house, but you’re never given any keys.
The scammers are getting their victims to the property and even a ... Views: 269