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Quickbooks Phishing Email

mksdon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:44 +0000

This was brought to our attention from one of our ever diligent clients. [who shall remain anonymous, but lets call him 'AT']. Mr. ‘AT’ had received an email telling him he needed to install a Digital Certificate by January 20th, otherwise his Quickbooks would cease to work.

It turns out it is a known Phishing Scam. There was another email sent in December with a December 20th due date. Intuit is aware of the issue and is working to shut down the emails but new ones continue to be setup.

Quickbooks updates are NOT sent through the email. So Mr. ‘AT’ did the right thing by not clicking on the link and to give us a call. Phishing emails will not be stopped by antivirus software so it is up to you to review any email that asks for personal information or asks you to install a program or click on a link.

Thanks Mr. ‘AT’ for bringing this to our attention!!!!

Facebook Privacy

mksdon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:49:00 +0000

Are you a Facebook user? Do you know everyone of your friends? And their friends?

I’m always amazed at how much personal info is available on the profile pages.

Here’s a great article on setting your privacy options in Facebook.

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

Too many passwords to remember?

mksdon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:33:27 +0000

One of the best utilities I use is a password organizer called RoboForm.

With one master password, you can have access to all your protected sites. Passwords can be grouped by use and most recently used are displayed for easy access.

Also included are Safenotes. This is a secure vault for your important notes. Perfect for those log in id’s and passwords that can’t be entered automatically.

Trial version is available which limits you to 10 logins. For more info, check out http://www.roboform.com/.