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Today’s article talks about Data Breaches. They are occurring more frequently and you have to be careful where you connect and how you connect. For example, on April 3, 2018, Panera Bread reported that customer information may have been vulnerable on the Panera Bread website for eight months. The data appeared to include records for any customer who signed up to order food via panerabread.com.More
Elite Networking & Consulting News With Jon Isenberg
This week’s newsletter will talk about what happened to my client who called “Microsoft”. This was the topic of the newsletter dated 4/5/18. The results were not a pretty sight, from the customer’s viewpoint. More
Be Careful What You Click On – Part 2
Today’s discussion is a continuation of an article from a few weeks ago, where we talked about messages arriving in your email from someone you thought you knew. Based on recent messages, we have some more items to watch out for.
Do You Really Know Who Send You That Email?
Today we are going to talk about email. We need to be vigilantly aware of who sends us the email and not just the name of the sender. We also need to look at the email address of the sender. The reason? You may be a target of “Phishing”.
Be Careful What You Click On
Here we are 3 weeks into 2018 and our topic will discuss Cyber Security in the news. For those of you that thought that 2017 was a record year for infections and cyber-attacks, just wait for 2018. Digital Experts are reporting that 2018 will be more challenging for businesses as any organization could be the target of a data breach in 2018.
Happy New Year from Elite Networking & Consulting
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What’s your New Year’s Technology Resolution?
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A note from John Isenberg
Today’s topic will help you prepare for the upcoming holiday season, by improving the communication process between you and your co-workers & clients. We are talking about the use of an out-of-office message. This is placed in your email account to notify incoming email message senders that you are out of the office.
A note from Jon Isenberg, Elite Networking
Did you know that on this date, November 16th, several events happened that changed the course of history. For example, in 1959 the Sound of Music premiered on Broadway, and in 2001 the first Harry Potter film opened in the United States. So much for the good news.
Now for the bad news. Many individuals (hackers) are taking things that don’t belong to them including your identity. There are many ways to do this now that we are part of the digital age. One way is to infect your computer and these infections have matured and gotten worse every day.
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How to Protect Yourself During the Holiday Shopping Season
Today’s topic talks about the holiday season. Now that some of the holidays have come and gone for 2017, we need to talk about protecting yourself from online shopping scams. The holiday season started with Thanksgiving, immediately followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Cyber Tuesday and Cyber Wednesday. The web deals will continue all the way to the end of 2017.
News Reports show that 2017 set records for ordering products online. This is the first year (2017) that orders from mobile devices exceeded those from personal computers on Cyber Monday. It was the biggest online shopping day ever with over 6 billion dollars of products purchased.
Sales, site visits and promotional emails also dramatically increased in the three day stretch after Thanksgiving. With that comes an uptick in Cybercrime, with hackers attempting every trick in the book to scam, breach, or otherwise compromise us out of our valuable online data. So, we have some online shopping tips to keep you safe this holiday season.
1. Make sure that your mobile device and computer have a paid security software product installed. You may think that your mobile device may be protected from infections, but you are wrong. Your mobile device is running computer software and the applications and data are susceptible to infections. Visiting websites and clicking on links, can infect your computer AND mobile device. Mobile devices include, tablets, android phones, iPhones, and iPads.
2. Make sure any website you shop on includes “https” in the URL address. That extra “s” is an important one – it stands for secure, which means any data routed through that site has an extra layer of security added to it through a secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) protocol connection.
3. Use credit cards instead of debit cards. Credit cards offer extra layers of security as well. Enhanced fraud monitoring, dispute procedures, and other protections come built in to most credit accounts, not to mention the extra points and rewards you could earn by using a credit card for your holiday spending. But the most basic safety mechanism here is that a credit card charge doesn’t come directly out of your bank account like a debit card charge does. In the event of a hack or breach, that can be a lifesaver.
4. Avoid giving out too much information. This should be a no-brainer in our data breach-dominated day and age, but if a shopping website or app requests a lot of info from the get-go (credit card numbers, access to photos or contacts), it’s probably a fraud. Accidentally granting permission like that is often just the mistake hackers are waiting for you to make.
5. Don’t click on any pop-up ads. Like step 4, this applies equally to Cyber Week websites and popular apps (and it carries over throughout the year, not just in November and December). But any time you get a lot of irritating pop-up ads, use caution. Clicking on one of those can lead a user to an external illicit site that installs malware or other viruses on your device.
If you would like additional information on anything discussed in this newsletter, please either call us at 855-767-9685, ext. 700 or send an email to service1@elite-nac.com.
Elite Networking & Consulting offers their clients a security software solution for both computers (PC’s & Mac’s) and mobile devices, that is a necessity today. All computer related devices need to be protected by security software. Our product includes a Ransomware Vaccine that stops this type of infection before it can attack any of your data. This is the benefit of working with an IT Professional.
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A note from John Isenberg
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How to Protect Yourself During the Holiday Shopping Season
News Reports show that 2017 set records for ordering products online. This is the first year (2017) that orders from mobile devices exceeded those from personal computers on Cyber Monday. It was the biggest online shopping day ever with over 6 billion dollars of products purchased.
Sales, site visits and promotional emails also dramatically increased in the three day stretch after Thanksgiving. With that comes an uptick in Cybercrime, with hackers attempting every trick in the book to scam, breach, or otherwise compromise us out of our valuable online data. So, we have some online shopping tips to keep you safe this holiday season.
Elite Networking & Consulting offers their clients a security software solution for both computers (PC’s & Mac’s) and mobile devices, that is a necessity today. All computer related devices need to be protected by security software. Our product includes a Ransomware Vaccine that stops this type of infection before it can attack any of your data. This is the benefit of working with an IT Professional.