We live in a world where everything is at our fingertips. Cell phones and tablets mean we have our address books, email, calendars, and even data with us always. One of the most requested features is to be able to access the office from offsite and work on data and information without coming in to the office.
America’s favorite hobbies, it seems, is tracing our family tree. Nothing could be easier. We only have to send off a saliva sample and then upload the results in the hope of finding long lost relatives. However, there is a big trade off if you do that, according to security experts.
87 million Facebook users are receiving notifications that a third party may have accessed their personal information. You could possibly have been sharing your profile with an unlimited number of people, if you have been using Facebook to link your apps.
Did you know that one of the things which gives us enormous pleasure, is handing over $200 cash to any client who refers us to another firm, when they ultimately become a client?
We’ve given away lots of these referral gifts and would love to give out even more.
Everywhere you turn you hear people talking about the cloud (and we aren’t talking about the weather).
“I just moved my e-mail to the cloud.”
“Well, I just moved my shared folders to the cloud.”
“Hah! I just moved my finances AND my CRM software to the cloud.
It seems like every day there is a huge credit card breach at a major company and your credit card is at risk. What can you do to keep your credit card (and your money) safe? What should you do after a breach? This checklist is a flash briefing of some of the things you should know.
Banking in the cloud, sales, remote support, even full server systems are being relocated to cloud sites to eliminate the need for local hardware and infrastructure.
Would you pay a criminal to break into your business? Would you hire a corrupt bookkeeper you know nothing about and then give them full access to your bank accounts and credit cards? Of course not! Yet we constantly see something far more damaging.
First, let me ask - what’s worse? Would you rather have your business checking account completely cleaned out or would you rather lose all of your firm’s data irretrievably? Everything.
The New York Attorney General is investigating a West Palm Beach businessman following an article in the New York Times, accusing the man of having stolen social media profiles and having created fake social media account.
According to the article, his business sells ‘followers’ giving the illusion that the buyers have more followers than they do.
