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Daily InfoSec Feed
Click here to learn more about
Information Security.
The
following tools are recommended by the Competitive Intelligence Center in
preventing spam, eliminating "spyware", prevent the invasion of
your privacy and security:
SpyBot Search and Destroy - eliminates Spyware
Spybot
- Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds
from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common
anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your
Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser
crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you
most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be
infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently
tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that
will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's
no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :)
Download
- Surf anonymously, without getting tracked by spammers
- Surf at work, without being monitored
- Block cookies, viruses, popup ads, and
other web junk
Freedom/Zero Knowledge allows you to take control of your
privacy with FreedomŽ! Freedom works seamlessly alongside your favorite
browser and other Internet applications. You can surf the web, send email,
chat, telnet, and participate in newsgroups as you normally would, only now
with complete confidence that your personal information is not being
collected without your consent.
Information Security
Information
Security (a.k.a. "InfoSec") can be defined as: measures
adopted to reduce, eliminate, and mitigate security risks and to prevent
the unauthorized use, misuse, modification, or denial of use of knowledge,
facts, data or capabilities.
Protecting Your Privacy
Just
as our company monitors website access, competing companies do as well.
Therefore, as you do your research and visit sites, your identity is being
tracked. Internet sites collect every piece of information they can about a
visitor, which in turn hinders your private research.
In
addition, as you register on sites, download information, and perform
transactions, you are providing valuable data on-line to interested
parties. Unknowingly, many of these recipient parties use the data you
provide them and resell it to anyone they choose to, for a fee.
Cookies
are the most common method used to track Web usage. A "cookie" is
a small piece of information sent by a web server to store on a web browser
so it can later be read back from that browser. This is useful for having
the browser remember some specific information.
If you have any suggestions, comments or
questions, please contact The
Competitive Intelligence Center.
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