"Digital Pollution" is the most accurate term we at Web-Kong have heard as of yet to describe the deviants of the Internet. Terms such as viruses, worms, and spam, to name a few, are wide spread words but fail to collectively identify the contaminants affecting computers. As the term suggests, Digital Pollution is affects caused by the careless, the inconsiderate, and the deviant.
The cat-and-mouse battle against spammers is projected to swing in favor of the deviants. The monthly volume of spam on the Internet increased 5.5% February of this year. This means nearly 9 out of 10 business emails are spam. But what can you do to protect your business and your empoyees? There's good news and bad news.
Whether looking looking to maximize tax write-offs or just looking to get the cheapest per-year rates on Antivirus and Security licensnig Kaspersky Labs now offers up to 5 year licenses.
If your favorite browser is Internet Explorer, make sure you have the latest critical fixes- for ANY VERSION. Microsoft made updates available at this site.
Early in Q4 2009 Kaspersky, a valued partner of Web-Kong.com, released several amazing enhancements to its Small Business Security and AntiVirus product line. Kaspersky Labs has named these upgrades "R2" (or canonically "Release 2").
All product upgrades are free for small businesses with existing Kaspersky licenses, a long honored tradition by Kaspersky exemplifying their commitment to customers.
Kaspersky R2 enhancements include:
A Kaspersky Theat Post blog warns of a phishing scam aimed to infect user computers. Using a fraudulent email from the FDIC many spam filters may let this through being furthered by the content that may alarm many recipients into clicking into it and entering personal information.
When the White House is doing security audits and is concerned about technology vulnerabilities, it's a good sign that every Small Business should be too. While your Small Business may not be the honey pot the White House is, the fact you're an easier target puts the hacker's crosshairs on you.
In today's Kaspersky blog post on ThreatPost.com, by Donald Sears:
Comcast broadband subscribers, will soon have a security enhancement being provided as a Hosted Service (or Software as a Service). Currently in trial, this hosted service is intended to detect strange or malware-like network traffic coming from your computer.
Eugene Kasperksy, founder of Kaspersky Labs, a Security and Anti-Malware company continues to show his devotion to keeping the Internet a safer place. Kaspersky security software provides Small Businesses a cost effective product based proven trust and technology.
In our recent post to a FoxNews article, we warned the comfort of Apple OS X users may have it's days numbered. Unfortunately this day may have arrived quickly.
At the recent VB Conference 2009 a security professional gave a presentation revealing a bounty offered for mlaware infecting OS X computers. The $0.43 bounty may appear trivial, but the objective is to infect as many computers as possible thus 10,000 infected computers pays out $4,300.