Top 7 Reasons for Fighting Phishing Scams

By Daviyd Peterson

If you haven't heard of phishing scams yet then Google it quickly
before your bank account is emptied or you can watch last weeks
episode of 'Numb3rs' and watch the angry face of an FBI agent
once he realizes that his account has been the victim of war-driving.
Still don't feel you should get off the couch and fight back then do a
search on 'spear phishing' and get an eye full of what hackers
are prepared to do to businesses and soon enough consumers. With
that in mind let's approach the top 7 reasons below...

1. Your credit really can't take any damage from a hacker.

2. If your credit is good enough to take severe damage from
a hacker then contact me immediately before a hacker
targets my account.

3. How many banks and other companies have lost personal
information to this date, how many more times are we going
to wait for the headlines to report yet another bank.

4. In some states phishing scams against companies don't have
to be reported.

5. The hackers have evolved and created spear phishing, the
attack is targeted using a companies own email addresses
and they are going after specific vulnerabilities within
each company.

6. With spyware, spam, adware, phishing attacks and all the other ways
hackers are trying to get into your computer's hard drive
- watching tv programs instead of doing something proactive
from the home out to the Internet against hackers is the
only real working solution.

7. A city had four walls to protect itself in frontier days, these
are the days of the electronic frontier with business, law
enforcement, and city leaders as three of the walls. Are
consumers expected to continue to lay down on the job while
hackers have their way?

Daviyd Peterson: 10-year consultant, instructor, trainer of
digital divide solutions for both home and business. Helps
African American and minority Small Business Enterprises bridge the digital divide by becoming wireless Small Office Digital Offices (SODO).

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Published at Aug, 10 '06 ; read 835 times;

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