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Business Opportunity - Computer Safeguards
Business Opportunity Owners need to take special precautions to safeguard their business data on their computers. Establishing your Business Opportunity requires more than just taking measures to grow and maximize profits. After you have maximized your business for profit and efficiency, your work is not over. Potential cyber attacks require you to also safeguard and protect yourself and your business opportunity.

Does Integrity on the Internet Really Matter?
Is the subject of integrity even worth our time considering when doing business online? What's the point when people are separated by vast distances? There may be more at stake than you realize ...
Ethics Is Not A Place
It seems that Ethics is a growth industry. There are even advertisements in the newspapers for “professional ethicists”.
Email Protection: As Important as Password Protection
As you may know, email marketing service provider, Epsilon, sustained a major security breach and now at least your name and email address are in the hands of spammers. Here are at least some of the companies affected...
The Credit Crunch. Is there Light at the end of the Tunnel?
This last month or so has been a depressing and very worrying time for most businesses and business people due to the massive uncertainty caused by the banks financial instability and forecasts of a recession. However, is there now a light at the end of the tunnel?
When Your Clock Strikes Midnight
No matter how long you've been 'Belle of the Ball,' there comes a time into every person's life that the clock strikes twelve. What happens then (or is it NOW)?
Protecting Your Company From An Online Data Breach
Why do data thieves attack corporate computer networks? Well, to paraphrase Willie Sutton, it's because that's where the data is. As I said in a previously blog, a data breach is usually done in one of two ways. A data thief will either employ physical means, such as dumpster diving, social engineering or a simple break-in; or via the internet. No business today can afford to be left behind technologically, meaning that in every corporate environment there are computers, networks and electronically stored information.

Flawed investigation leads to monetary compensation for former employee
In a recent unfair dismissal case brought before the AIRC, the AIRC found that while an employee's conduct warranted dismissal, the dismissal was nevertheless harsh, unjust and unreasonable because of the procedural fairness failures by the Company.

Conducting a faulty investigation can lead to an employee’s success in an unfair dismissal claim
The AIRC ordered Melbourne’s St Vincent Hospital to reinstate an employee and ordered compensation for lost earnings after it found that a pathology courier employee’s (Ms Nicolson) dismissal was unfair.

MORE HACKING. WHEN WILL IT STOP?
The simple answer? It won't. To paraphrase Willie Sutton, bank robber, "That's where the money is." PBS, Sony, Lockheed, Amazon, IMF, US Senate, etc., all announced in 2011 that their systems were hacked. Security specialists are now calling 2011 the year of the hacker. Weak SecureID tokens, malware, password attacks, etc., have all been used. Foreign governments, terrorists and a "hacking collective" called LulzSec have been accused. Recently, the DOD announced that cyber attacks can now be regarded as a military attack with the recourse being military ordnance.
Email marketing is a waste of time and money
Not for reason you might think. Internet security or the lack there of, has made users suspicious and distrustful to all unsolicited emails. Let’s first take the argument from the personal perspective. We all have been hit with spam in our email accounts. We may have also experiences are own email address being hijacked by email spoofers. All with the intent to get the recipient to click a link or open a file to start the process of identity theft.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PLANS INTERNET ID
There are some key concerns that arise with a government issues Internet ID card.

Corporate Network Security Technology Comparison
A few years ago, many of us had only a few passwords to remember. Today, we have dozens. Corporate networks have become virtually impossible to use today without passwords. On top of this, “IT’s best security practice” requires that employees change passwords frequently and use long, complex passwords. Unfortunately, this has encouraged poor password management habits that lead to security breaches, privacy violations and huge fines.
Recent Decisions: Retail Leases
There have been recent decisions in the New South Wales Administrative Decisions Tribunal (Tribunal) which are of significance. It is important that you take into consideration the following aspects to avoid disputes between landlords and tenants.

Appreciation As A Fundamental Awareness
Appreciation allows whatever we're used to taking for granted to come forward into our awareness. This is true of our own value as well as that of others in our personal, social or business networks. Suddenly, we find we're living a richer, fuller life, and we have a much clearer perception of how we can make it that much more satisfying and rewarding.

Other breach Related Articles

Professional Indemnity Insurance why you must have it
If your business provides advice or consultancy you have a responsibility to your clients and any breach of that responsibility could lead to a claim against you, causing serious damage to your business. Luckily there are ways of covering yourself against that.
Preparing for Security Breaches
A major security breach of sensitive customer data is a nightmare every business with digital consumer records needs to plan for. It may be impossible to stop security breaches, but it is possible, and even a legal obligation, to have a process in place to manage and minimize the damage that a security breach can cause. Here's how to do it.
I Wished I Had Hired a Franchise Lawyer When I Bought the Franchise
In the 34 years of representing buyers and sellers of franchise, I have nearly seen it all. I feel like an emergency room physician when I meet a client who bought a franchise and has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a failed or failing business. The franchisor is threatening termination and a suit for lost profits against them personally, there are in breach of their lease and their lease guaranty, and their SBA loan secured by their home is in default.
Are You Ready for Data Security Compliance Language?
While spending much of the summer reviewing and renewing contracts for my clients, I started to see contract clauses being regularly inserted to protect the other party from exposure to violations of data security and privacy laws and regulations. Given the stiff enforcement penalties and, even worse, the bad publicity which can result when a company has a data security breach, it's no surprise that many businesses are beginning to update their contracts to comply with these new state and federal rules.
An Identity Theft Call Center - A Necessity In Today's Information Age
With most business transactions being done electronically, the opportunity for thieves to compromise personal data is high. Employing a call center to manage inbound calls during any breach can save your company time and any potential damage to your reputation.

Trade Secrets from a Recluse Woodworker (aka My Dad)
A trade secret is any valuable business information that is not generally known and is subject to reasonable efforts to preserve confidentiality. Generally speaking, a trade secret will be protected from exploitation by those who either obtain access through improper means, those who obtain the information from one who they know or should have known gained access through improper means, or those who breach a promise to keep the information confidential. For our purposes, I want to focus on the last part of this definition in an edited version. Generally speaking, a trade secret will be protected from exploitation by those who breach a promise to keep the information confidential.
Email Protection: As Important as Password Protection
As you may know, email marketing service provider, Epsilon, sustained a major security breach and now at least your name and email address are in the hands of spammers. Here are at least some of the companies affected...
Data Security is Mandatory
What is a data breach? A data breach occurs when customer information held by a company, business or institution is accessed, used, collected, retained or disclosed in a manner which is not in accordance with the applicable privacy laws and regulations and/or the company's own policies regarding customer information and privacy.

What To Do When Your Company Network Is Hacked
I have written many articles and blogs warning about the cost to a company from a security breach. Ben Worthen, a staff reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, wrote a great article “What to Do if You’ve Been Hacked” on September 26, 2011, where he has highlighted some key things to do. All the points are excellent but the #1 “to do” is to not ignore the attack and hope it goes away. It won’t!
Yet Another Avoidable Security Breach At UCLA
UCLA recently agreed to pay a penalty of $865,000 for a series of HIPPA violations and now they are forced to reveal that the theft of an external hard drive from a former employee’s home has created the fears of yet another security breach. Plus, UCLA is offering 16,288 patients credit and fraud protection services.
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