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Things You Should Be Doing To Secure Your Online Creative Endeavors

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Whether you are an artist or a crafter, or you are a published author or an inspired poet, if you are sharing your intellectual property online you may want to be doing a few things to protect it. Nothing could be more heartbreaking than having someone steal your work. You don’t have to hide your work in order to keep someone from stealing it though.

It’s about more than just making sure you let people know it’s your intellectual property though. Even files can get damaged and corrupted by hackers if your computer isn’t safe. Here are a few easy ways you can work harder to protect your artistic and creative endeavors. There’s no sense in letting someone else take credit for something you put your heart into! [Read more…]

Password Best Practices for Keeping Your Information Safe

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These days it seems like every one of your online accounts – whether it’s an ecommerce site like Amazon or a subscription to a newspaper like The New York Times – has different password requirements. Some require a certain password length, usually 8 characters or more. Many require you to use numeric or symbol keys, and many of these also require the use of capital letters.

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Why do they do this? And, more importantly, how can you keep your information safe? Use the following password best practices. [Read more…]

How Authorities are Using IT in their Fight Against Drug Abuse

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In the continued fight against drug abuse worldwide, authorities are getting additional help from technology. Thanks to computer programs and applications for cell phones and other mobile devices, the campaign on preventing and treating substance abuse is moving forward and gaining teeth.

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The 2015 World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) noted that some 246 million people used an illicit drug in 2013 with 27 million considered to be problem drug users. It also found that men are three times more likely than women to use marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. Women, on the other hand, are more likely to misuse opioids and tranquilizers. [Read more…]

Securing Yourself And Your Business Online

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Whether you are running a business online, banking online, or simply playing games online, you need to do what you can in order to protect your identity and your credit cards and bank accounts. Just because there are risks online doesn’t mean you should stop using the internet, since there are just as many risks shopping at your favorite local store or pumping gas at the station on the corner.

In fact, you can probably protect yourself more when shopping and playing online, since there are ways to protect your computer and to make sure you are paying for things securely. These days just paying at the pump for gas is a risk to your bank account, not to mention the card scanners that can steal your credit card information while it’s in your wallet or purse. [Read more…]

Keeping Yourself Safe in a Technological World

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Unfortunately, every day there are new threats that make themselves known in the world. Even though there are many that have been foiled in their attempts to steal, kill and destroy, there are even more threats out there that lurk beneath the surface and wait to pounce on unsuspecting subjects.

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Many of the dangers of this world don’t have to do with technology or the internet, as muggings still happen every day. Rapes, robberies, battery, and murder will never go away as long as there is evil in this world. The unsettling thing about danger is that as the world grows in number and technological advancements, so too does the amount of crime, only now, it’s not limited to the physical world. [Read more…]

IT Security As Related To the Real Estate Industry

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Information technology in general is important across basically all industries these days. But, because there are different types of sensitive information, and different ways that information can be used for you, against you, and to manipulate you, there are different sets of protection and regulation in specific circumstances.

For instance, in the real estate industry, particular care and specificity is involved in with things like regulatory agencies, protection against hacking, bankruptcy involvement, best practices from client and consumer standpoints, and being sure to pay attention to mail legitimacy.

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