By Online Security Authority on Oct 26, 2011 in Home Family Children | 0 Comments
A new school year has just begun for many kids, and parents are preparing to shuttle their kids to and from school, extracurricular activities and other school events. Being a parent to a school-aged child can be a second job by itself, and there are few jobs more rewarding than parenting.
By Online Security Authority on Oct 17, 2011 in Home PC Security | 0 Comments
The Scam: These types of scams typically target the elderly, or other people who are not familiar with Internet scams. Emails are sent to a large number of addresses, with a well-formatted HTML message. The email is created to look like it came from a bank or similar financial institution, sometimes even copying the banks actual format verbatim….
By Online Security Authority on Oct 10, 2011 in Home PC Security | 0 Comments
Attempts to defraud our fellow man have gone on for longer than most of us care to admit. And, while the Internet made all of our lives easier, it also made it that much easier for unsavory characters to scam us out of our hard-earned money. We’ve compiled some of the most popular online fraud techniques, and will be delivering them to you in a three-part series. We’ll be taking a look at these methods, and most importantly, will show you how to avoid them.
By Online Security Authority on Sep 20, 2011 in Thoughts on Security | 0 Comments
Because of this, many colleges are now offering a cybersecurity degree. As cybersecurity is a relatively new field compared to normal criminal study, there are not many qualified professionals in the workforce. A cybersecurity degree will prepare students to protect business infrastructures in order to keep private data private…
By Online Security Authority on Aug 26, 2011 in Teen Guidelines | 0 Comments
When I was in elementary school, I got a lesson from my teachers every year about saying no to drugs. To be honest, I didn’t quite understand what drugs were. I knew about ibuprofen and stuff like that, but the idea of recreational substances was foreign to me (even though I knew I was always supposed to say no to whatever people offered me).