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At some point during school you probably learned about Odysseus’s brilliant plan to sneak soldiers into his enemy’s city in the guise of a magnificent statue of a horse-the famous Trojan horse, to be exact. It’s a great story, and the plan was such a great tactical maneuver that, unfortunately, hackers have adapted it to suit their malicious attacks against your computer.

A Trojan horse, in the computer world, is a seemingly harmless program that delivers an unwanted, unsafe program that can have dire consequences. Unlike a computer virus, though, it relies on the user to complete some sort of action that triggers the program. So, like Odysseus’s Trojan horse being pulled inside the city walls, you have to open or install the item to release the harmful program, like Odysseus’s soldiers swarming out of the statue.

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At some point during school you probably learned about Odysseus’s brilliant plan to sneak soldiers into his enemy’s city in the guise of a magnificent statue of a horse-the famous Trojan horse, to be exact. It’s a great story, and the plan was such a great tactical maneuver that, unfortunately, hackers have adapted it to suit their malicious attacks against your computer.

A Trojan horse, in the computer world, is a seemingly harmless program that delivers an unwanted, unsafe program that can have dire consequences. Unlike a computer virus, though, it relies on the user to complete some sort of action that triggers the program. So, like Odysseus’s Trojan horse being pulled inside the city walls, you have to open or install the item to release the harmful program, like Odysseus’s soldiers swarming out of the statue.

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A biometric passport is a combination of a paper and electronic identity document that used to authenticate the citizenship of travelers. The biometric passport is valid for 5 years for first time applicants, compared to 10 years passports without biometric features. The biometric passport is planned to have digital imaging and fingerprint biometrics placed on the radio frequency identification chip. A biometric passport uses the most advanced technology to verify a person’s identity, looking the same as a regular passport, with the exception of the computer chip on the photo page.

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Here is your weekly summary of security alerts, fixes and threats you need to know, to play safe on the Internet.

Thinking of Vista? Better Read This!

If you are using Windows Vista or planning to make the jump soon, you had better know that the operating system is spying on you. Some 20 or more programs, features and services are busy collecting data about you and your work habits.

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Personal computers these days seem to be infected in large number by spyware or spybots. These threats have increased greatly since world wide economical development, making the internet an enormous database suitable for finding anything about anyone at any time. Along with this virtual expansion, threats started to appear in larger numbers than before.

Spyware and spybots invaded our browsers and our computers for the sole purpose of getting access to personal information. These types of attacks have been considered illegal according new lows but that doesn’t mean that the danger has diminished.

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People still don’t like to believe that the tech’s at the helpdesk can see
everything on their computer without actually being at the computer. If
anybody has administrator rights, and most members of the company
helpdesk do, as do many managers, they can see every file on the
computer. Chances are, there is at least one person in your company
that is fully willing to snoop around just for fun.

Administrators
can access admin shares on your computer as long as the Server
service is running. They can easily access the path on anybody’s computer using
Start > Run and typing:

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People used to close business deals with a handshake.

They looked one another in the eye. Today, more and more transactions are electronic, anonymous and, in too many cases, fraudulent. Any organization that stores or moves important information on an electronic network is putting its information at risk. A criminal on the other side of the world or an apparently loyal employee may have the ability to wreak havoc, by stealing, deleting or exposing confidential information.

The Computer Crime and Security Survey, conducted by the Computer Security Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, indicates almost two-thirds of the large corporations and government agencies it surveyed lost money when their computer security broke down.

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Before Internet access became widespread, viruses spread on personal computers by infecting programs or the executable boot sectors of floppy disks. The first worms, network-borne infectious programs, originated not on personal computers, but on multitasking Unix systems. Unlike a virus, this worm did not insert itself into other programs. Instead, it exploited security holes in network server programs and started itself running as a separate process.

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In today’s computing environment including but not limited to internet browsing you must consider security measures to protect your data and your computer.

Vulnerabilities can include email, communication ports, wireless networking, spyware, viruses, and securing the computer from local access.

We will review each in detail in this series. This article is designed to help protect you and your computer in hopes your computing experience will be a more pleasurable and safer one.

1.Email

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Just how safe is your computer and the data it contains? Did you know your information is very vulnerable to many lurking issues online? If you double click on an infected file you could delete all your data. This is why you have to think:

Is your machine placed properly?

Overheating and vibrations are two common causes that determine data loss. Make sure your computer is well ventilated, and don’t place books on top of it. Keep your computer away from busy areas this will prevent people from kicking it. Don’t place your pc directly on the floor because static electricity can also cause data loss.

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