In this world, there has thousands of security solutions that are available, but why is protecting sensitive data so difficult? A dizzying variety of technical solutions are available, like network firewalls, personal firewalls, operating system patching solution, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion-detection , and security management systems. Shouldn’t we able to keep our most sensitive data safe? The answer to this question will be yes! The following is a list of things that I believe every computer user should know :
1. Identity and remove those unnecessary files which contain Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or other such information if no longer required.
2. Set passwords on all accounts.
3. Keep software and operating system up-to-date.
4. Approach e-mail attachments with care. Before opening any attachment, the recipient should consider whether the sender is known and if the attachment is expected, if no, then recipient should not open such attachment.
5. Run anti-virus software. Since so much business is performed using e-mail, this is a compulsory application to help identify viruses.
6. Limit access to the computer. Turn file-sharing off unless absolutely
Necessary, if file- sharing is necessary, configure it with a strong password.
7. Run a personal firewall. Both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS have buit-inpersonal firewalls that should not be turned off. Consider other commercially available firewalls as an additional step.
8. Turn off the computer when it is not in use. Unless the computer must be kept running for services. It is impossible to compromise or infect a computer that is not running.
9. Regularly check for spyware. Spyware is often is installed in computers when other applications are installed or when Wes sites are visited.
1. Identity and remove those unnecessary files which contain Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or other such information if no longer required.
2. Set passwords on all accounts.
3. Keep software and operating system up-to-date.
4. Approach e-mail attachments with care. Before opening any attachment, the recipient should consider whether the sender is known and if the attachment is expected, if no, then recipient should not open such attachment.
5. Run anti-virus software. Since so much business is performed using e-mail, this is a compulsory application to help identify viruses.
6. Limit access to the computer. Turn file-sharing off unless absolutely
Necessary, if file- sharing is necessary, configure it with a strong password.
7. Run a personal firewall. Both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS have buit-inpersonal firewalls that should not be turned off. Consider other commercially available firewalls as an additional step.
8. Turn off the computer when it is not in use. Unless the computer must be kept running for services. It is impossible to compromise or infect a computer that is not running.
9. Regularly check for spyware. Spyware is often is installed in computers when other applications are installed or when Wes sites are visited.
(New Program Enables Vendors to Certify Storage Virtualization Devices for VMware Environments, Providing Greater Choice for Customers)
VMware, Inc., announced a new hardware certification program for storage virtualization devices. Combined with the virtualization-enabling technologies in VMware ESX Server, this program is designed to enable customers to have more choice in deploying virtualized storage solutions with VMware Infrastructure.
“VMware is committed to working with our storage partners to offer customers the greatest choice of storage vendors when deploying virtualization across their organization’s infrastructure,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware. “As enterprises increasingly standardize their IT environments using virtual infrastructure, it is important to have a breadth of storage hardware options available to them.”
By enabling hardware vendors to certify storage virtualization devices for VMware Infrastructure, VMware and hardware vendors together are poised to bring to market the complementary technologies of server virtualization and storage virtualization. As a result of this program, customers will be able to leverage the flexibility of management, cost efficiency and high availability of VMware Infrastructure as well as storage virtualization to create an end-to-end solution.
Patel continued: “VMware Infrastructure leverages and drives significant new adoption of iSCSI and fibre channel SANs with its native capabilities for distributed volume management, VMware VMotion and rapid application recovery. Many customers are looking to implement network-based storage virtualization as their VMware environments continue to grow in order to optimize the storage resources that support these new capabilities. This new certification program is designed to fully support this capability by leveraging the native capabilities of VMware Infrastructure.”
VMware has worked closely with its storage ecosystem partners to extend partners’ storage virtualization services to virtualized environments, including collaboration to integrate products such as VMware Site Recovery Manager with third-party LUN-based replication. This new program to certify storage virtualization devices, with their complete feature sets, is another step forward in VMware’s ongoing efforts to work with the storage industry to bring server and storage virtualization together to improve customers’ flexibility, efficiency and total cost of ownership.
VMware launched its hardware certification program in 2000 to enable VMware and its hardware partners to fully test and optimize their products for VMware Infrastructure. Nearly 2,000 different server and storage hardware models are currently certified, representing products from 46 vendors. VMware is working directly with its Global- and Premier-level Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program members to certify their storage virtualization devices. VMware is also working to expand the certification program to the broader storage ecosystem, including to Select-level TAP members, later this year with testing done by VMware’s authorized testing centers or by AppLabs or Cognizant Technologies. These global IT services companies specialize in testing and are authorized by VMware to test eligible hardware for all standard VMware hardware certification categories.
VMware continues to work with the world’s largest networked storage system vendors including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM and Network Appliance to attain certification of their storage offerings later this year. This 3rd party certification programs the delivering a true end-to-end virtualization solution, from server to storage, and enabling customers to reap the benefits of sophisticated virtualization services across their entire storage environment.
“VMware is committed to working with our storage partners to offer customers the greatest choice of storage vendors when deploying virtualization across their organization’s infrastructure,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware. “As enterprises increasingly standardize their IT environments using virtual infrastructure, it is important to have a breadth of storage hardware options available to them.”
By enabling hardware vendors to certify storage virtualization devices for VMware Infrastructure, VMware and hardware vendors together are poised to bring to market the complementary technologies of server virtualization and storage virtualization. As a result of this program, customers will be able to leverage the flexibility of management, cost efficiency and high availability of VMware Infrastructure as well as storage virtualization to create an end-to-end solution.
Patel continued: “VMware Infrastructure leverages and drives significant new adoption of iSCSI and fibre channel SANs with its native capabilities for distributed volume management, VMware VMotion and rapid application recovery. Many customers are looking to implement network-based storage virtualization as their VMware environments continue to grow in order to optimize the storage resources that support these new capabilities. This new certification program is designed to fully support this capability by leveraging the native capabilities of VMware Infrastructure.”
VMware has worked closely with its storage ecosystem partners to extend partners’ storage virtualization services to virtualized environments, including collaboration to integrate products such as VMware Site Recovery Manager with third-party LUN-based replication. This new program to certify storage virtualization devices, with their complete feature sets, is another step forward in VMware’s ongoing efforts to work with the storage industry to bring server and storage virtualization together to improve customers’ flexibility, efficiency and total cost of ownership.
VMware launched its hardware certification program in 2000 to enable VMware and its hardware partners to fully test and optimize their products for VMware Infrastructure. Nearly 2,000 different server and storage hardware models are currently certified, representing products from 46 vendors. VMware is working directly with its Global- and Premier-level Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program members to certify their storage virtualization devices. VMware is also working to expand the certification program to the broader storage ecosystem, including to Select-level TAP members, later this year with testing done by VMware’s authorized testing centers or by AppLabs or Cognizant Technologies. These global IT services companies specialize in testing and are authorized by VMware to test eligible hardware for all standard VMware hardware certification categories.
VMware continues to work with the world’s largest networked storage system vendors including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM and Network Appliance to attain certification of their storage offerings later this year. This 3rd party certification programs the delivering a true end-to-end virtualization solution, from server to storage, and enabling customers to reap the benefits of sophisticated virtualization services across their entire storage environment.
Phishing is the act of using fraud method and criminally and fraudulently steal people information such as username, password, credit card number, bank account number to invade other people privacy. Phishing is not just limited to personal information; phishers can also send emails with virus attachments. Phishers know that most people that use computers, more specifically, the Internet, have little to no knowledge about security.
P Never reply to e-mail messages that request your personal information. It will be very suspicious of any e-mail message from a business or person that asks for your personal information or one that sends you personal information and asks you to update or confirm it.
P Don't click links in suspicious e-mail because the link might not be reliable. If you receive an email with a bad link in it, add the link to your 'Restricted Sites'.
P Use strong passwords and change them often. Strong passwords means combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, which make them difficult for other people to guess. User need to change the passwords frequently and use a different password for each of accounts.
P Install a good Anti-Virus and firewall help protect your PC. It is important to keep your computer updated, and use antivirus software, especially if you connect to the Internet through a cable modem or a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem.- Monitor your transactions. Review order confirmations, credit card and bank statements to make sure that you're being charged only for transactions you made.
As we all know, online is a common activity nowadays. It is useful, but do all of us know how safe actually we are using this facility? Nowadays, managing online security is becoming a big challenge due with the numerous use of Internet. We as user should aware that we are disclose from online threats that may attack your computer system, personal data and privacy without your consent. 
Phishing attacks
There is a most popular threat called phishing which steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials through fake websites. Customers should caution with some scams sent out e-mails and they will ask to log in the fake websites. This action may disclose information about their financial accounts and their private information such as username and password. Usually, phishing messages may attack their victims from eBay, PayPal, or other online-shopping websites.
Spyware attacks
Spyware is programming that secretly gather information about a user without authorization and dispatch it to other interested parties to earn profit from that. If you simply download software that never heard before without scan all files, that is easy for u to attack by such spyware. This threat is quite similar with phishing that both of them can steal user’s personal information, such as documents, passwords, credit card numbers and bank accounts. The different is only the different way they use.
Malicious attacks
The most common form of malicious code is computer virus. Virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and change our computer settings and slow our computer down without knowledge of the computer user. This virus can spread easily by sending over a network via internet or by carrying on a removable medium such as floppy disk, CD, USB drive. The most famous example is the ”I Love You” virus which is a simple and small piece of code attached to e-mail which cause e-mail servers to overload and business to shut down email.
Spyware is programming that secretly gather information about a user without authorization and dispatch it to other interested parties to earn profit from that. If you simply download software that never heard before without scan all files, that is easy for u to attack by such spyware. This threat is quite similar with phishing that both of them can steal user’s personal information, such as documents, passwords, credit card numbers and bank accounts. The different is only the different way they use.
Malicious attacksThe most common form of malicious code is computer virus. Virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and change our computer settings and slow our computer down without knowledge of the computer user. This virus can spread easily by sending over a network via internet or by carrying on a removable medium such as floppy disk, CD, USB drive. The most famous example is the ”I Love You” virus which is a simple and small piece of code attached to e-mail which cause e-mail servers to overload and business to shut down email.
Hacker attacks 
Hacker is a computer program that tries to break into others’ computer systems and specialized in the discovery of exploits in systems or prevented unauthorized access to systems. Using public shared computers to carry out bank transactions can be easily become a victim of hacker. Past few years, hackers have worked together with organized crime to harvest the valuable data exposed on the Internet.
Actually there are many other online threats but above is the most well-known threats. It is the time to keep yourselves safe from these threats!!!
Hacker is a computer program that tries to break into others’ computer systems and specialized in the discovery of exploits in systems or prevented unauthorized access to systems. Using public shared computers to carry out bank transactions can be easily become a victim of hacker. Past few years, hackers have worked together with organized crime to harvest the valuable data exposed on the Internet.
Actually there are many other online threats but above is the most well-known threats. It is the time to keep yourselves safe from these threats!!!
