Said to be even bigger than Black Friday and still only the 3rd highest day for on-line shopping, Cyber Monday is upon us. This is the day when workers use their workplace computers to shop on-line.
It is also a significant date for Cyber crime, as noted by PC Magazine Security Watch: It's Holiday Cyber Theft Season.
MSNBC offers some tips on cyber crime and prevention:
Network World also has some tips here. But keeping up with the latest software patches has its own problems, as noted in this Network World Article: Latest Microsoft patches cause black screen of death.
The likelihood of being victimized by cyber crime is statistically low and particularly low if you follow common sense advice. As I have said before, the real crime is the cost embedded in the products we buy and the credit card fees we pay to have such a low level of on-line security.
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