Have you backed up your data recently? Every day people lose huge amounts of valuable data because they fail to follow this one basic procedure. March is here, but have you ever heard of World Backup Day on the 31st? Because backing up your files is such a key responsibility to protect your PC, why not dedicate the whole month to reflection?
Modern medicine is overwhelmingly reactive rather than proactive. How expensive that model is! If everyone only got sick and then sought medical assistance, we could not afford the bill. The reasoning here is similar to why you change the oil in your car rather than wait to fix a blown engine. This is also why we try to vaccinate or inoculate against as many diseases as possible. Everyone knows the motto: “Prevention is better than cure.”
Don’t you love Valentine’s Day? So do most hackers! February 14 is just around the corner. If you are shocked by this revelation, you are a prime target for Valentine’s Day spam and phishing attacks as hackers hope to catch you with your guard down for this day of expressing how much you care for your loved ones.
As Check Point’s consumer brand, ZoneAlarm is proud to play a pivotal role within the outstanding growth of its parent company, which provides industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Gil Shwed, co-founder and CEO of Check Point, was interviewed by the Forbes magazine in December. The opening paragraph summarizes the interview’s focus: growth.
Wouldn’t you freak out if you checked your bank account and saw a $0 balance? Identity theft isn’t too rare of an occurrence these days, yet we often fall into the trap of thinking that it’ll always happen to “someone else”. Unfortunately, we are all somebody else’s “someone else”, which means identity theft can happen to you.
