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•Accountants Must Pay Attention To Data Security
Data security cannot be under estimated, whether you are in business on your own account or you are an accountant advising others. Be aware that the Information Commissioner, the ICO, is particularly interested in any breaches of security and can impose fines of up to £500,000 if anything is discovered. This could be a drop in the ocean as well, as the costs to fix this could be even more significant. Accountancy professionals and client companies should be aware of some new training modules...
•Unprofessional Website Maintenance Carries A Significant Risk
If you try and cut corners in the interest of saving money, you can often wind up with significant and unforeseen problems as a direct consequence. Be very careful when establishing your website and understand that you have quite a lot at stake should something go wrong and e-criminals hack into your site. Always make sure that you keep up with your website maintenance, or you could end up with egg on your face, as in the case of the Centre for Alternative Technology, a sustainable charity and...
•What are the Latest Scams in Credit Card Fraud
? Managing your credit card transactions through a payment gateway provider is by far the most secure way to avoid either regulatory scrutiny from the credit card industry or actual fraud. As fraud is escalating in the current economic climate, businesses should be vigilant towards the signs of fraud.
There are at least two types of fraud that have been doing the rounds for the past few months that are worth highlighting. The scams are known as Triangulation scams. Often these work best on...
•Register Your Domain Carefully
There are certain things we might take for granted when we are setting up an online presence. You should always be aware of what you are doing and be particularly careful if you are in a rush to get a website set up for any reason. A little bit of care here can reap dividends for you over time. If you have come across a particularly nice domain name, you might be worried that somebody else has his or her eye on this name as well and be tempted to rush to register the name as quickly as...
•Look After Your Domain Name
You cannot be too careful when it comes to accurately maintaining and caring for your web presence. You may have a particularly descriptive domain name, one that you have put a lot of effort into securing. The domain name may represent your primary keywords and be a very important asset in helping to drive traffic to your online presence. If you think about it, your domain name is vital and without it your revenues could suffer considerably. This is why you should stay on top of your domain...
•What On Earth Is Gumblar
? The chances are that you have never heard of the term Gumblar. In the online world, this terminology is used to describe a number of similar Trojan viruses. The term got its colourful name when it was initially discovered that a virus was able to redirect a web user's Internet browser to a website of the same name. In this case Gumblar.CN, a site no longer in existence. You may not have heard of this style of infection, and while activity was quite considerable at one time, we thought that...
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