We don't use E-gold very often since most of our online business and customer sales are conducted through our online merchant account. However, we occasionally have someone who will request paying by E-gold so we keep an account there for this reason. Once a month or so we withdraw the funds and decided to do so yesterday. Imagine our dismay when we logged into our E-gold account yesterday and found our balance to be a big fat ZERO!
We had checked the balance just a few days ago so we knew this was not correct. After investigating the history of the account, we found that a spend had been made to another e-gold account user WITHOUT our knowledge or authorization. We had been hacked!
Since we have up to date anti-virus and firewall software on our computer, we assumed we were safe. Not so! It seems this is not enough to keep away the hackers as the software does not prevent "Spyware" from being installed on your computer.
"Spyware" is software that gets onto your computer and literally "spies" on your activities. The spying can range from relatively harmless use of cookies tracking you across multiple websites... to extremely dangerous "keystroke loggers" which record passwords, credit cards, and other personal data. That data then gets relayed to the person who put the software on your computer.
Spyware gets on your computer in one of several different ways.
First, it rides along with software you download from the 'Net and install on your system.
Second, they come as email attachments (much like viruses) and automatically install themselves on your computer when you open the email message.
Third, hackers find an open port on your computer and use the "back door" to install basically anything they want.
And fourth, the more malicious types, like keystroke loggers, can even get installed by someone with direct physical access to your computer such as an employer, suspicious spouse, business competitor, or someone who wants to know exactly what you're doing.
So how do you protect yourself against these malicious hackers? You need a program that specifically scans your system for the tens-of-thousands of existing spyware programs along with the new ones appearing daily.
Below are two programs which specifically check for and remove spyware from your system:
"Spybot Search & Destroy" - www.safer-networking.org
"Ad Aware" - www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
You may have spyware lurking on your computer right now so protect yourself today by downloading one of the above programs!
As a point of reference, we contacted E-gold and informed them that we had been hacked. We provided them with the account number of the person who received the funds and asked for a contact e-mail address on the person. E-gold informed us that they could not provide that information without a "court order" and that basically there was no way of getting the money back!
Take action today to protect yourself from this growing threat! The bottom line is: - Keep your anti-virus program current
- Install a firewall
- Carefully screen software before installing it
- Scan specifically for spyware weekly
- Stay current on this growing threat.
Since real servers can’t directly access your information (e.g. browser type, location, IP address, internet service provider), this information can be prevented from being discovered by the real server.
Proxy servers are used to avoid recognizing information from the requests of the user. These are called anonymous proxy servers. Nowadays, numerous anonymous proxy servers are already available on the Internet. You can find lots of free services.
With proxy servers, it is not only your IP address that is being protected. Making your computer and yourself more anonymous through the use of proxy servers is possible.
For instance, linking proxy servers can provide you and the real server with a higher degree of “separation”. This makes it more difficult for would-be attackers to track you down. Also, if you encrypt data right at the outset, you can have an advanced degree of protection.
Once data is received and before it is forwarded, a proxy server can effectively encrypt data. However, a proxy server that is receiving unencrypted data will make the data open to harm. Usually, free anonymous servers do not encrypt data. You may need to pay a little amount to avail this kind of service and this may be very well worth it for you.
If you want to utilize an anonymous proxy server, see to it that the one you will use is well known for the quality of its service (preferably with posted privacy policies).
It is very important to keep in mind that proxy servers can’t guard you from someone who can access the computer you are using (e.g. those who nose around you). In this case, you should ensure that you take the necessary steps to safeguard your data by clearing and deleting cache, search history, and cookies from your toolbars and browser.
It's common knowledge that the world has moved online, and so has the bulk of our personal lives. The majority of us pay our bills online, we manage our bank accounts online, and some may even earn an extra or full-time income from the Internet. Even those who were once leery of that “Internet thing” are venturing online these days. With our lives so impacted by the internet, there is an increased concern about online security. The information that we leave unguarded online can easily be obtained by unscrupulous people and used in ways that could a make our lives a nightmare. Be very careful of the footprints that you leave when you are on the web. The following are some of the measures that you can take to protect your online privacy.
1. Whenever you visit a website, be sure to take a look at the privacy policy. More importantly, make sure that the website even has a privacy policy. The privacy policy indicates how that site will attempt to collect information from you and what will be done with that information. There should be verbiage that reassures you that your private data will be kept safe and will not be sold to a third party. If you don't see a privacy policy, then any information that you submit becomes public property, so be aware.
2. Make sure that all of your online passwords are very difficult for anyone to just guess what they are and make it a habit to change your passwords at least once a month or even more often than that.
3. Make sure that you teach your kids that it is unsafe to carelessly enter personal information on the internet. Children can easily be tricked into giving out information like your home address, social security numbers or other critical information regarding your family that could potentially lead to identity theft. Therefore, it is essential that you explain to your children the potential dangers of the internet and be sure to set boundaries.
4. Clear the cache memory of your system while browsing. Cache memory may be useful in making your browsing faster; however, it can have a great impact on your privacy, especially if you are using a public computer. Periodically, clear the cache memory along with the history, the cookies and other traces of your online activity.
5. Make sure that any online forums that you use or visit are secure in nature and clearly state that fact.
6. Always use an anti-virus and an anti-spyware program to search for key loggers, viruses, malware and spyware that may be lurking on your computer. These malicious programs could be collecting and sending your personal, private information to a third party.
7. Use your common sense. Sometimes, we allow ourselves to become victims of scams on the internet simply due to a lapse in judgment. For example, if you get a random email that says you have become a millionaire and they need your bank account number to transfer the funds, don't let the vain hope of instant riches cloud your judgment. Phishing is still alive and well.
As more and more of our daily activities are managed online, we will inevitably see more and more online crime. Take the necessary measures to keep your personal information out of the hands of the online, criminal element.
Welcome to the new age, where women are chasing their professional dreams even after a brief lull dedicated to the family very smartly. They are slowly, but surely navigating their way to the higher echelons of entrepreneurship in all the parts of the world. Earlier women of the western countries were known as the career oriented personalities. But today even in other parts of the world women are moving ahead and giving their better halves a helping hand in their business and even they are trying to maintain and run the business independently. Some of them have achieved a quick success where the others might have stumbled and many more are working hard to make the progress in life with a positive attitude.
But it is really appreciable that they are managing all this even if they have c
Installing the spy cam or the nanny cam for the surveillance of the baby sitter is not just enough for these women. They are as well making use of such cameras or rather the hidden cameras at their work places too. They are taking the entire plunge into the world of uncertainty and are fighting the odds to make a statement and that too with courage and élan. They are very well conscious that they have to manage and handle everything independently without their husband's help if they are running an autonomous business. So they always make wise moves and decide to install the hidden cameras or the CCTV cameras in their business premises so that they can be attentive towards the troublesome occurrences which may take place in their daily routines. Today these women entrepreneurs do not lack any one's support. They can help themselves in all the ways with the use of the pioneering and beneficial cameras very easily. Evidently these women are the ones who very contented with the introduction of these cameras.
The formations of every instrument are arranged with the intention that more and more people can make use them for their own benefits and that too with a great passion. These days' cameras are one of the leading instruments which are certainly planned in a way that we can truly help our selves so that we can finish our surveillance procedures with precision and we can even take care of our belongings once have installed them in our homes or the place where we work because the information and the pictures which are gathered in these pioneering cameras are exclusive and unique. The information gathered in these cameras can be further used for evidence if we have any troubles in our life.
I have the Hidden clock camera in my crockery shop which is situated in one of the leading malls of the town. Several people visit my shop everyday and I have a stock of all the latest designs of the crockery which can attract my customers towards it. My customers were very happy with the service given to them in shop by my employees. Everything was going all perfectly alright until some of my old employees left the work because they had gone old and now that they wanted to retire from work. I hired some new employees in their place. Now since these employees were hired, some complaints started coming against their service from my regular customers. These employees were not attending the customers properly and they were not interested and sincere towards their work at all. They would waste their time talking to each other even during the work time and even when there are customers to attend to. Because all my previous staff was very sincere I never had to switch on the camera so that I could capture their actions all the time. In fact I never felt the need to survey their actions. But now I had to make use of the hidden clock camera which was installed on the wall near the main entrance of the shop. This hidden clock camera is the specific type of camera which one can use whenever he likes to use. The camera is very skillfully hidden away in the clock's appearance and this camera is available with a guarantee of one year. Now regularly the camera was switched on and all the actions of my staff were regularly surveyed. Gradually I was able to collect enough evidence against which I could take action against them. Even they were shown their own deeds which they were doing in my absence in the video recording and then were immediately sacked out from their duty and a new staff was again appointed and this time I was very particular and started making use of the hidden camera and started surveying the actions of the new staff before I could get any complaints from my customers. Now my customers were also happy and even I was satisfied and happy that I had such a good camera that I could use it whenever I like to use it.
Today we all have to be very observant, sensibly judicious, keen and understanding, smart and sharp and we also have to be aware of the opportunities which we can make use to give comfort to our selves. Cameras like the hidden cameras, the spy cameras, the CCTV cameras, the CCD cameras, the CID cameras are some of the latest and wonderful devices which are given recognition in the market just a few years ago. It is not that there were no cameras in the past, but in those days there were simply designed cameras which were very occasionally used either by the photographers or a few people who were very fond of photography and had a habit or rather a hobby to collect various pictures of different occasions and places. They were used very rarely. But today's cameras are exceptionally superb and they are designed not only for regular use for capturing mere images for hobby reasons but in fact..
they are designed in such a way that every individual can use them for surveillance reasons and can very conveniently take care of his/her own commercial and residential locations. Life has in fact become very easy for us than it had ever been for our ancestors who could never dream about it.
Once I had been to India to attend one of my friend's wedding. When we were in London last year we had met in the university and we had become good friends. Once our education was over we had to depart and then we had promised each other that we would again meet before we get married. Then one day I got an invitation from her side that she was getting married and that I had to attend her wedding. I was very much excited because I really wanted to attend it because I was very fond of all the rituals and the traditions which the Indian weddings go through. I made up my mind that I will visit India to attend her wedding. I did not want to miss a single event and even wanted it to enjoy even after the wedding was over. So for this I bought a camera which I could easily carry along with me to India so that I could capture each and every event with excitement. I bought a Mini spy camera because I could later use this camera for surveillance reasons also. After going through all the details of the Mini spy camera I found that this camera was the excellent type of equipment which I wanted to buy. This camera is so small that it is simply 3 inches lengthy and ½ an inch in depth wise. This is 3 in 1 video recorder type of camera with a factual point of digital camcorder. With the help of the USB device we can recharge the battery without any effort. So I was very happy that I had an opportunity to visit India as well as I was having such an excellent camera so that I could easily capture whatever I wanted to. At last I reached India and we both were very happy that we once again met and she was happier because I had fulfilled my promise that I would attend her wedding. Each and every event of Indian tradition was captured in my camera with clarity and after a few days I went back to my house and very frequently would go through all the proceedings which were captured in my camera and then I even started using this beautiful camera for surveillance process in my office also.
