Many of us don't think of the possibility of what happens if our computer gets lost or stolen. We think more in terms of the data that is stored on them. We think people should be very concerned about that piece of hardware that rests on your desk at home or at the office. If someone walks out the door with that hardware are you certain that they won't be able to get at the sensitive data that may be contained on it. There are very cost effective solutions available to prevent this from happening. Datasavers Inc. has recently become affiliated with a security company that focuses on these products. Please follow the links to the right describing these scenarios and get the product thats right for you to have full piece of mind in the event that your office or home is compromised.

There is a story circulating the internet today that some security geeks have sucessfully shutdown one of the major spam bots onn the internet. Amounting to about 12% of the junk that fills our inboxes these geeks found a way to disable the backbone of the Mega-D botnet. Chalk one up for the white hats! It goes to show you that if people of this caliber are working toward a good goal then we can eliminate or at least stall thes epeople who perpetrate all the bad things that go on on the net.

Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet

Listening to a recent podcast by Steve Gibsen at GRC. He mentioned a report that indicates that there is a script imbedded in some 300,000 sites on the internet that load malicious code. What that means is, if you unwittingly happen to browse to one of these sites and you are not properly protected, you could very well be infected. What this code does is attempt to imbed itself and ultimately steal private data from your computer.

So, its imperative that you make sure that your computer is always up to date with the latest patches from Microsoft, as well as your Antivirus/Malware/Spyware.

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Adobe announced more exploits on Monday for its Reader 9.2. My suggestion to people is for quite awhile now has been to find a substitute program to open PDF files. One of the best that I have found thus far has been Foxit Reader. Its small and quite robust and the best part is its FREE.. It does an excellent job of quickly opening large files and I don't see any reason why the average computer user out there can't take advantage of this free alternative reader.

One of the best things you can do to protect yourself is make sure your computer is using the safest software, and that the software you have is up-to-date. If you would like more suggestions visit our Computer and Internet Security Page or call us (315) 876-9480 and we can discuss how to best secure your valuable data and identity.

Very interesting column from Roger Thompson Security Chief at AVG. Seems like there may be telltale signs that corporations like your bank are getting their hands on your information. There is a story on his blog that seems to indicate that either there is harvesting of data on their customers, or that Facebook is selling the data. Which is it, I'm not sure but it is a very interesting development and we all may want to take a good hard close look at this story. I'm posting the link to the story, and make sure you read the follow up post as well. Nice piece Roger thanks!

Now THIS is scary

Today I was browsing through the different security newsletters that I read, and this post seemed to be the most relevant and caught my interest. Humans as a whole are very trusting. This little experiment backs that up. It was run 2 years ago and people added friends to their facebook accounts whom they did not know in quite impressive numbers. Well, after 2 years you think people would understand that it is not a good idea to do that. Well, guess what? They still are not catching on to the risks:

46% of Facebook Users Are Happy To Reveal All Their Information To Complete Strangers

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