Aside from the very real need to worry about outright identity theft, there is a growing need to be concerned about privacy and reputation protection.
If you think all the concern about privacy threats on the internet is just a bunch of hype, you should seriously do some homework. The threats to privacy are more pervasive [...]
Dear Glenn:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a single spam email, the [...]
The webmail component that is part of 1and1 hosting plans is one of the worst email systems the Secure Surfing Organization has worked with.
Even using the optional “1&1 Easy Login” the webmail interface takes an unacceptably long time to load. It also does not play nice with some security software, causing users to disable safety [...]
We have been enthusiastically testing two new services launched to provide privacy and identity protection. DMNRA6T4TQ2Z
The Secure Surfing Organization is a long-time advocate of the Anonymizer Anonymous Browsing and Total Net Shield services.
Having used the services for years with great success, we were a little gun-shy about the transition to a completely different anonymizing [...]
We like to keep users updated on service experiences with various secure surfing vendors when they present themselves, particularly those recommended by the Secure Surfing Organization.
We have used the Total Netshield Service of Anonymizer for years and have been very pleased with its identity and privacy protection power.
We were using the 2-year term as it [...]
Part of our efforts to learn and report about privacy, identity, malware, scams and other ill attentions on the internet involves becoming a user of various services. We also do so with complete transparency. disclosing our name and, wherever possible, creating a user account in the name of securesurfing or monitor.securesurfing.
This is not at all [...]
Please Read These Terms And Conditions Carefully Before Using Any Website Services Provided To You By Canada.Com As They Contain Binding Legal Terms And Obligations Including Limitations Of Canada.Com’S Liability And Disclaimers.
Others in this Group An Introduction – Terms of Service – June 25, 20091and1 Terms and Conditions – August 4, 2009A9.com Conditions of Use – July 25, 2009Amazon.com Conditions of Use – July 25, 2009Anonymizer Terms of Use – July 10, 2009Aol Registered User Terms Of Service – August 2, 2009Aol.com Terms of Use – August 2, 2009Authorize.Net Terms of Use – August 1, 2009BBC Terms of Use – July 21, 2009BMO Bank of Montreal Legal Notices – July 27, 2009BMO Harris Private Banking …Read the rest – Canada.com Terms and Conditions
Just one day after the misleading story run by CTV, CBC News Network covered the chatroulette dot com site in its morning news cycle.
The expert brought forward by CBC did not leave the impression that parents are helpless, but advised them to use “content filtering or monitoring software.”
This is the appropriate advice. Where it falls [...]
Use a safe browser
If you are using Internet Explorer(IE) or any of the “derived” Explorer products you are not surfing securely.
We do not need to point you to the continuing history of vulnerabilities and security holes that Microsoft itself acknowledges. We simply have to point out that because Internet Explorer massively dominates the web, it [...]Others in this GroupAbout Your Own Web Address – July 26, 2009Choose a Safe Web Browser (This post) – June 28, 2009Choosing a host for your web site – August 8, 2009How to Join stuff online – July 25, 2009How to Research a domain name – July 10, 2009How to handle cookies – August 22, 2009How to transfer a domain away from 1&1 – …Read the rest – Choose a Safe Web Browser
Windows Live won’t let records die
A fundamental principal of privacy law and practice is that those who possess personally identifiable information are required to destroy that personal information after the purpose for which the person supplied the information is no longer operative.
Companies are not allowed to simply amass information about citizens and then hold on [...]
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