Independent News Blog www.ActivistPost.com July 25, 2010|By PJ Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator unmarked jugs of raw milk. “This is about control and profit, not our health,” said Aajonus Vonderplanitz, co-founder of Rawesome Foods. “How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?”
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   Has it been months or even years since you have cleaned out or even thought of the things crammed into your attic? If there are some things among them that you plan to use sometime in the future, the poor conditions within an attic can render those items completely useless. This is why it is a good idea to visit a storage blog and learn why it would be wise to shift your important belongings to a storeroom.

   Store houses offer you a great solution to clear up all the clutter in your home, regain more living space or temporarily store away your goods during renovation or relocation. If you are interested in learning more about such storerooms and the services offered by these facilities, it is best to check out storage unit blogs. In addition to helping you choose the right facility and size of cargo space, these blogs also offer information related to rental fees, customer service, insurance and security.

   Basic Facts That Blogs Teach You

   A storage blog generally offers basic information about these basic aspects related to store houses:

   *The rental period: According to your specific requirements, you will be able to rent cargo spaces on a weekly or monthly basis. If you are abroad for studies or training for a few years, you can even choose a yearly lease period.

   *The right-sized storeroom: Before renting a warehouse, you must have a clear understanding of the space you need. If you are unsure about the space, then prepare an inventory of your belongings and consult the facility manager. Thereafter – as the storage blog will tell you – the manger will offer a reliable estimate of the space you will need after reviewing the size of your things. The manager may also offer tips on making the most of your space like disassembling furniture before storing it.

   *Security aspects: A self storage blog will offer information on the basic security aspects such as padlocked storerooms, night patrol, burglar alarms and close circuit surveillance cameras that you must look out for. The blog will also remind you to insist on advanced locking systems if you plan to store valuable goods or precious heirlooms.

   *Insurance options: A storage blog will offer valuable information related to the insurance offered by store houses in case of damage or loss of stored goods. If your warehouse does not offer insurance, the blog will guide you on obtaining a policy from an insurance company.

   *Payment options: Almost all store houses require you to place an initial deposit and then pay the rental fees in full or in installments. Some facilities may accept major credit cards or post-dated checks.

   *Restrictions: Some warehouses may impose a weight limit on the items that can be stores in a cargo space. You will also be warned by the storage blog against placing toxic or inflammable chemicals in a storeroom.
  
   So, as you can see, it makes sense to visit such blogs and learn more about store houses before actually renting a unit.

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Blog spam is an unfortunate by-product that comes with the encouraged interactivity on blogging sites. When viewers visit your site it is always good to have them post comments In fact many people judge how popular blogs are based upon the amount of comments they see.

Of course most site owners would like to see comments that are constructive and helpful towards the development of the site itself. However there are many online who use this opportunity to be nothing more than disruptive or for their own promotional purposes. Even worse are those who submit links that are malicious in nature and therefore pose a threat to you and your readers.

Since it would be nearly impossible to prevent spam like this there are ways a blog owner can identify and reduce the amount of spam that shows up in comments.

Here are 3 different ‘warning signs’ you can use when people post comments to your blog as to whether it is something you should approve or delete.

Keywords as Names

Any comment that is left without the name of a person is usually a big flag. Normally these spammers use keywords instead of a name in an attempt to get back-links to their sites. These people are simply trawling for traffic and likely use software to post comments.

Generic Comment

Comments left that say very little other than some polite chatter or remark about nothing in particular is a strong clue they have been software generated. These comments tend to ‘draw you in’ based upon their complimentary nature.

Another style (if you want to call it that) spammers use when they post comments is making critical or inflammatory remarks.

You simply need to look at these comments closely to see if they ‘really’ have anything to say that can be related to the post.

Comment is Irrelevant

These comments are fairly easy to recognize and usually target sites that do not use any type of spam filter. The remark normally contains information or a response that is clearly NOT intended for the blog they are found on. These spammers are the most irreverent since they blatantly ‘hawk’ their own sites or simply aim to be disruptive.

Blog spam is just another unfortunate by-product that comes with blogging sites that encourage and experience reader interactivity. The fact of the matter many visitors will judge how popular blogs are upon the number of comments they see. Site owners do want people to post comments that can be used for constructive purposes bit it is hard to prevent spam showing up in these comments. The 3 warning signs discussed above can be use to detect and minimize the amount of spam you approve for posting on your site. By filtering spam in this way you will be protecting your readers from potentially malicious sites. The net result will be an increased feeling of security and satisfaction by your readers when visiting your site.

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He heals all diseases in Jesus’ name. He talks to everyone, thru the Holy Spirit, in our thoughts. People don’t need health care. They need to look to God. He is free, doesn’t make mistakes, and has no side effects.

Poor people often have more faith in God than rich people. Out of necessity, they are forced by circumstance to look to God and they discover that he is faithful and heals.

Rich people are often at a spiritual disadvantage. Because they can afford doctors, they are lured into that direction to solve medical problems. Because they usually put their security in money, they often don’t see their need for God. So when a crisis comes, they don’t often turn in His direction for help. If you want to hear testimonies of miraculous healing, you’re more likely to find it in a poor church than a rich church. The poor pray to God for direct healing by the Holy Spirit (available to everyone). The rich often pray for God to use doctors, which is less direct, a lower level of faith. God meets us at whatever level our faith is on. Jesus said, “as your faith is, so be it unto you.”

Sickness is an opportunity for everyone to see their need for God, to develop the relationship, accept Jesus as saviour and be saved, to assure salvation in Heaven instead of Hell. John 3:16 says “God so loved the world that He sent his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. To be healed, ask God to tell you any sin you need to repent of. Any unforgiveness is sin. Forgive everyone. Repent of any drug habits (including smoking, caffeine) and ask God to deliver you from it. God wants you to be free from any drugs, which are openings for unclean spirits, which cause mental and physical illness. All drugs that affect the mind are openings for demonic oppression, which can cause illness. This includes caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot, lsd, cocaine, etc and psych meds as well. Don’t take any of them.

There are other possible openings for demonic oppression; what is in one’s environment that needs to be removed. This can include recordings of bad music (music inspired by demonic spirits, such as heavy metal, rap. Blues or country can be an opening for spirits of depress— which then can attack the listener. (I don’t use full names of diseases because they are caused by spirits whose “assignments” is those diseases, and they can be invoked by speaking or writing them). Listening to bad music is worse, but even having recordings of them around a person gives authority for the spirits which inspired those records to be near the person.

 Bad books, which contradict the bible or are inspired by lying spirits; new age books, witchcraft books, philosophy; art, symbols such as peace signs, (which is really occult), jewish stars can invoke demonic spirits; occult objects like tarot cards or Ouija boards need to be renounced & removed. They bring curses.

Sometimes illness is caused by curses on us by sins of our ancestors. Praying Jesus’ blood over the person and breaking any curses solves this. Being saved, or born-again, means being filled with the Holy Spirit. God wants our bodies to be temples for the Holy Spirit and he doesn’t want to share them with unclean spirits.

Accept Jesus as Lord, repent of your sins, ask him to guide you and fill you with the Holy Spirit. Get baptized in Jesus’ name. Fast. Rebuke the illness in Jesus name. (Illnesses are caused by demonic spirits) I have rebuked illnesses and been cured. Don’t repeat the sin, or the sickness might return. Some sicknesses are due to specific sins. Sexual diseases, for ex. I was healed of one, and God told me not to do it again. Jesus said “Go and sin no more”. Don’t reconfess the sickness. People lose prayers by doubting. Negative confessions act like curses. So be thankful and praise God. You can read more on how to pray in the free minibook Spiritual Wisdom at http://1prophetspeaks.com

Mandated health care will be used for more government control. This will ultimately involve microchips to encode people’s healthcare info. The New Testament (rev 13) warns us against taking the “mark of the beast” which will be a mark “without which no man can buy or sell” – saying anyone who takes it will suffer eternal torment. Google Trumpet Ministry to see more on chips. Carl Sanders testifies that he helped design microchips years ago which are the mark of the beast.  Also Nick Rockefeller/Aaron Russo video about this. Rockefeller admits that one of the goals of the global elite is to chip everyone.

The new healthcare bill passed this year mandates microchips! on page 1001, it mandates setting up within 36 months a registry of medical devices, purusant to an FDA regulation passed in 2004 that explicitly describes “implantable transponders for healthcare info and id”. This was put in the healthcare bill sneakily. God has also warned me that one of the ways they intend to chip people is sneakily, using vaccines.

Healthcare is being used to depopulate the planet. One of the agendas of the global elite whose goal is the new world order, a one world government, is depopulation. They are using toxic vaccines toward this goal. Bill Gates, in a recent speech, said that reproductive healthcare (abortion, sterilization) and vaccines, which he is funding, would help lower the world population. Jesse Ventura, in his show “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura” in an episode on Secret societies  interviews a dr. who says most vaccines have squaline, a poison, and their purpose is to make people sick and die. Avoid all vaccines. She testified meeting one of the global elite who said “the time to cull the population is drawing near”. Henry Kissinger has stated “we need to reduce the population by 50%”. His OPA as sec. of state under Nixon had a policy of only giving foreign aid to 3rd world countries who agreed to use abortion & sterilization for depopulation. They are not only trying to depopulate the 3rd world; the whole world is being subjected to this. The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bildeberger Group and the Trilateral Commission, led by David Rockefeller all have an agenda of global government with a goal of depopulation. You can read more about this in an article :”The New World Order; A prophetic warning to Jews & Christians” on my blog at http://1prophetspeaks.blogspot.com.

 
The Mental Health system is fraud. They hold people in hospitals just to get insurance money. Mental Health Parity is dangerous for patients because it increases the incentives for hospitals to hold them involuntarily, for months and years. This has been going on all along, and these types of laws will only make it worse.

“Mental Health” is Orwellian double-speak. It is not mental health, it is mental death. The drugs are toxic. They cause liver, kidney & brain damage, and death, with innumerable horrible side effects.

Mental health parity is a mistake since it is an incentive for hospitals to hold people to get insurance money. Read Melody Peterson’s book Our Daily Meds (2008) about fraud in health care. Drug co’s market drugs to doctors for various purposes with no evidence they are effective. Psychiatrists who write the DSM, the psychiatric bible for mental disorders,  invent mental disorders so they can make $ as consultants to drug co’s for the “treatments”. They want to have “mental health screening” in schools as a way of labeling kids and drugging them, to sell drugs. Every kid who agrees to this gets labeled with some ridiculous label. Parents need to have their kids “opt out” of any screening program.The Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights has done a lot of work on exposing and fighting forced drugging of kids and situations where parents were threatened to have their kids taken away if they didn’t agree to drug them.

Psychiatry is all a charade. It is atheism masquerading as science. They claim mental illness is caused by chemical imbalances. This is a lie by drug co’s to sell drugs. Psychiatry admits truthfully that they don’t cure mental illness, they only “manage symptoms” This is so people will keep taking the drugs to make money for the drug co’s. Mental illness, according to the bible, is caused by demonic oppression. The psych meds are openings for demons. Since demons don’t cast out demons, only God casts them out, this is why psych meds can’t cure mental illness, they cause it. The drug handbooks say that possible side effects of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs is psychosis. This has proven true; all of the suicidal school shooters were being ‘treated’ by psych meds.

Most people labeled psychotic are not – they are people with spiritual or religious beliefs and experiences that psychiatrists label delusions or hallucinations – symptoms of psychosis. Psychiatrists second question is always “Do you hear voices?”  Anyone who says they hear God or demons is thought to have auditory hallucinations, a symptom of psychosis. They are given the label schizophrenic, schizo-affective or even bipolar.  (Being hyperreligious is supposedly a symptom of mania, they then presume that the person also gets depress-, hence they are thought to be manic-depressived, which is now called bipolar. This is how they are trained.

The truth of the matter is that Everyone hears voices, as thoughts in our heads. Thoughts come into our head from the spiritual realm. The word “inspiration:” means “a spirit goes into it”. The bible (James ch 3) says there is wisdom from above and wisdom from below. Jesus said “my sheep hear my voice” John 10-:27. So it is NORMAL Christian theology to hear voices. It is not psychosis.The Holy Spirit is on the earth and talks to everyone. We need to learn to discern the difference between God’s voice and demons. Those who are oppressed by demonic “voices” need to address all of the above issues to remove them. Everyone is vulnerable to “lying spirits” if they are not careful about their environment and using drugs. Demonic spirits can affect thoughts and emotions, hence mood disorders. This can all be addressed through prayer. If you ask God what to remove around you, the Holy Spirit will answer you in your thoughts. Anyone who has accepted Jesus as Savior has authority to rebuke spirits of mental illness such as depress-, or physical illnesses.  (You pray, “In Jesus name, I rebuke the spirit of xxx). I have done so; it works. Spirits can jump around from person to person like germs. I have had it happen to me. One can pick up the agitation of another person who is drinking coffee, for ex. Children can be hyper because their parents drink coffee. People may have problems because someone around them is using drugs or has another openings for demonic spirits. (Pot smokers used to call it a “contact high”).

Psychiatry is rooted in atheism and its historical purpose has been to deliberately destroy religious people. Google G. Brock Chisholm, director of World Fed of Mental Health. He was anti-God, and said the purpose of therapy is to eradicate morality. He also said the purpose of education is to prepare people for the new world order, a one world government. Both education and mental health are arenas of control by the social engineers who want to create a one world government, a scientific fascist state. Aldous Huxley described it in his prophetic book, Brave New world, where everyone is drugged. Huxley said “a scientific fascism will be easy to sell the public”. They not only use psych meds; they are using mass medication of the population through drugs in the water; flurodation of water is an example of this. The Nazis first used it in the camps to make the prisoners docile. The same element, fluoride, is in all the anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs, which do the same thing. Sodium fluoride, in toothpaste and water, is a toxic poison, a byproduct of aluminum processing. It is used in rat poison. Toothpaste tubes warn not to swallow it. It has been sold to the public as a positive benefit for teeth as a total scam. You can research this on the internet. Avoid fluoridated water by using filters. Some bottled water has fluoride added.

Psychiatric definitions of mental illness are all from an atheistic, materialistic non-spiritual worldview. Christians are labelled schizophrenic, schizoaffective or bipolar. The anti-psychotic drugs hinder the Holy Spirit. They impede one’s ability to pray. The Mental Health system is unconstitutional since it violates the 1st amendment guaranteeing religious freedom.Involuntary commitment and treatments violate this right.  It says the government can not establish a state religion, and the religion of the mental health system is atheism.

You can read more on mental health  and healing of mental and physical illness in a free book at http://1prophetspeaks.com: Manual for Transformational  Healing-God’s Answer to Psychiatry. It warns about  atheistic psychiatry & their toxic drugs. Includes Blueprint for Revival, a vision for an empowered church to heal the sick through prayer & worship, 24 hours.

Also has minibooks, Spiritual Wisdom, articles, including Blueprint for Revival, and samples of original worship music.

See my blog for more: 1prophetspeaks@blogspot.com

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What is the User Group Security?

The User Group Security is a new generation of security system that breaks the tradition of each antispyware guarding computers itself, based on the network and formed by numbers of participants. Users no longer have to be confronted with spyware threats alone, as the security system formed by all the participants together will be the strongest bastion.

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What is the Online Scan?

The Online Scan is a kind of technology that stores the spyware signature database on servers, computes mainly through servers during the analysis process when users scan their computers, and detects the existing threats on computers after receiving scan results from servers.

the Online Scan function of Spyware Cease can form a large?User Group Security.

Providing the main computing by severs and reducing the user-end burden, actually?return the system resources to computers.
The most?powerful Online Scan engine combined with the signature scan engine, achieves a threats detection rate of 95%.
The fast?spyware early warning mechanism not only enables the infected user to remove the spyware by running the Online Scan, but also helps other users prevent and fix this spyware through Spyware Cease Security Center. This is because Spyware Cease Security Center immediately?distributes the spyware information to all the servers, and then notifies users through each server. All users will get solutions on how to prevent and remove this spyware within a few minutes.

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This is a new generation of security mechanism. The more users involved, the more security they will have, and the large User Group Security will be formed gradually. In this way, even the latest spyware threats can be prevented and removed by all users within minutes.

Information about Spyware Cease Security Center

The predecessor of?Spyware Cease Security Center is a Computer Security Research Club constituted by a group of computer lovers from different fields, including various IT Companies, schools, research institutions, as well as some social workers. Three years later, Spyware Cease Security Center was formally established in September 2008,dedicating to the research of Internet Security and setting up three professional R & D teams to carry out the major work.?

Before the establishment of Spyware Cease Security Center, the security system based on the network has already begun being studied. After years of hard work by the research staff, the?network-based security systemset up by applying more than?100 advanced servers was accomplished in May 2009. The security system is composed of different sessions, such as:

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Spyware Cease will continue to improve the existing technology and build up a?perfect security systemgradually for all users.

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Security is defined as the condition of being protected against danger or loss. In the Internet Age, information security has become just as valuable and important as is the physical aspects of safety.

Security remains top of mind among security business and technology executives. But how does this trickle down to users and their managers?

Enterprise Innovation conducted a survey of readers to determine the extent to which users are familiar with tools, policies and processes as it relates to security in the enterprise.

How many IT staff do you have dedicated to security?

Among 316 respondents to the survey, about 60% have a small team of between one to five persons within their IT organization to look after the security of their infrastructure. Almost 28 percent claim to have a larger team dedicated to security. Twelve percent do not have a dedicated security staff in their IT organization.

“Except for the very large organizations that truly have a dedicated security team, most so-called security experts in IT organizations actually perform several jobs, security being one of them,” said Henry Ng, Professional Services Manager, Asia, Verizon Business. “Compared to the US, there are very few companies in Asia where a Chief Information Security Officer or CISO is employed to oversee the security initiatives of the company. In the organizations where such a role exists, the CISO often reports directly to the CEO rather than the CIO.”

Do you struggle to consistently measure security across your enterprise?

Over 51 percent admit that they lack the ability to adequately measure security across the enterprise. Add to this the 24.6 percent of respondents who are uncertain as to how to measure security and you have a population of 75.6 percent of respondents who struggle with measuring security.

This suggests lack of internal awareness of the tools, policies and best practices to enable accurate measurement, and also implies the inability to justify further investments in security beyond basic security tools like anti-virus software, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention solutions.

How do you measure security? Some point solution vendors measure this by the number of incidents that are tracked and/or stopped at the door.

Ng says that his team is often invited to meet customers to solve specific security problems. “When it comes to security, most organizations act in response to specific events. Only a few, and mostly those from very large enterprises headquartered in the US or Europe, have a security strategy beyond the basics,” Ng adds.

Can you effectively demonstrate risk reduction and an improved security posture?

The simplest way to demonstrate risk reduction is by keeping your anti-virus software updated. Most corporate users have this process automated for them by IT. As soon as a user logs in to the network, the client anti-virus software scans the server for any updates. Surprisingly only 38.6 percent of respondents claim to be able to demonstrate this posture.

Andrew Walls, Research Director on Security, Risk & Privacy at Gartner, says the only way to demonstrate risk reduction and security performance is to have an effective Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) program.

Gartner research has identified strong benefits in the level of security assurance and the containment of security costs produced through a well-managed SIEM program.

Walls warns that the metrics must be driven by business priorities with the raw metrics (gathered from technical security systems and processes) analyzed and translated into business terminology.

Do you need assistance or support for internal or external audits?

A little over 41 percent believe they need assistance with regards to internal or external audits. Over 42 percent claim they don’t need support while almost 15 percent remain uncertain.

On the subject of international standards for information security, Walls notes that Asia tends to be less transparent concerning policies, processes and standards. “The tendency of Asian organizations to avoid exposing internal security practices in public setting leads to some conflicts when western organizations seek to perform security risk assessments and compliance audits. The lack of transparency is often interpreted as a lack of security enforcement within the organization which can lead to adverse audits,” he adds.

Do you have to adhere to standards such as Payment Card Data Security Standard, ISO 27001 or others?

Only 20.5 percent of respondents confirm they comply with specific security standards. The standards with the most mentions are ISO 27001 and BS7799.

Close to 54 percent believe they are not mandated to comply with any security standards. Over a quarter of the survey respondents are uncertain whether their organizations should support any standard at all.

It is human nature that we operate in reactive mode, particularly when it comes to security. It should not surprise us that the aftermath of September 11, 2001, companies were scrambling to assess and deploy security policies and processes. Likewise, after the Boxing Day earthquake in Taiwan on December 26, 2006 that knocked out the undersea communication cables, people scrambled to figure out if their systems were compromised.

Do you have a structured process or methodology for managing enterprise-wide security initiatives?

Having a structured process for managing enterprise-wide security initiatives is a rarity in Asia Pacific. Not surprisingly only 26.3 percent of respondents claim they have a structured methodology for securing the organization. Many more (38.2 percent) believe they don’t while a worrying 35.6 percent are uncertain if such a process exists at all.

The remaining two groups total 73.8 percent – a figure which should be a cause for concern for regulatory bodies and an opportunity for security experts seeking to offer their services to the market.

Are you confident of how to prioritize security efforts and allocate resources?

The ability to prioritize implies knowledge. The survey respondents clearly underestimate the size and complexity of executing security policies and strategies. About 45 percent of respondents claim they are confident they know how to prioritize security initiatives and allocate resources.

In reality, based on discussions with experts this is often not the case. It is possible that this perception is largely in the belief that security is nothing more than deploying a combination of anti-virus, intrusion detection and prevention solutions.

Do you find your existing security controls effective in protecting you against threats, worms and viruses?

The majority (61.9 percent) of respondents believe that their current setup is effective in controlling breaches caused by worms and viruses. They say it was over confidence that spelt the demise of Napoleon

Only a minority (17.9 percent) are pessimistic about their infrastructure’s ability to contain and counter threats and a slightly higher percentage (20.3%) remain uncertain as to the effectiveness of their security initiatives.

Do you have third party validation or certification to provide or meet compliance requirements?

The confidence of respondents as to the effectiveness of their security initiative is dampened by the inability to actively measure or validate the effectiveness of security measures as it relates to meeting compliance requirements.

Only 35.7 percent of respondents have third party validation process in place. Forty-four percent do not use external organizations and this may be substantiated by the 42.7 percent who don’t use an external auditor to check their security posture and the 53.9 percent who do not need to comply with any standards.

The remaining 20.3 percent are not sure if their organization are using third parties to conduct certification.

Numerous third party certifications are available in the market for all sorts of security processes. “However, they are only valuable as proof of compliance if the certification is based on the regular assessment of all security practices that are relevant to the standard being applied. The quality of the assessment is totally dependent on the issues raised above: transparency and maturity,” warns Walls.

According to Walls, if an organization is not fully transparent during a certification assessment, they may receive the certification but then fail a compliance audit. Transparency is an absolute necessity if your organization is seriously dedicated to managing security risk.

“If the security program does not have well-documented and consistently enforced policies, standards and procedures, then the certification will be based on hearsay and personal assurances by staff. This will not be sufficient to pass a compliance audit,” explains Walls.

Compliance is easy if you have a mature and transparent security program with effective metrics. If you do not have these, audits will always be a struggle.

Market Analysis

How much are companies spending on security solutions? According to IDC, .9 billion were spent on IT security solution across Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in 2006. This number is expected to nearly double to .9 billion by 2011.

The IDC Asia/Pacific Communication Study of 2006 showed that “Introduction of viruses” was the top threat by a large margin. This signals that despite the maturation of the secure content management (SCM) technology (which includes antivirus, web-filtering and messaging security); viruses are still considered a very real threat to the enterprise IT infrastructure.

This is followed by “corruption or replication of data” and “external hacking”. It is also noteworthy that “employee sabotage” also made it high on the list as the enterprises in APEJ have traditionally focused on perimeter defense, or what is commonly known as the strategy to “keep the bad stuff out”.

This result shows that many enterprises now realize that there is a need to put in place controls to “keep the good stuff in” too.

Willie Low, IDC Senior Market Analyst of the Asia/Pacific Infrastructure Software Research, says viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malware will continue to be top of mind issues for end-users. “However, the increasing use of RSS feeds, mashups, blogging, Web 2.0 and other interactive technologies at work will introduce new security challenges to many IT managers and not many organizations are prepared for that,” he warns.

“It is no coincidence that we are seeing numerous information protection and control solutions (data loss prevention systems being a type of IPC solution) being introduced to the market lately. We can expect to see more in the coming months,” concludes Low.

According to Gartner, the top 3 security issues or initiatives for 2008 in Asia are:

New approaches to IT delivery are exploding into the market. Software as a Service, Virtualization, On Demand Infrastructure, Managed Services, Social Networks, Grid computing and Virtual Worlds can provide enormous benefits in terms of performance and cost, but they also require new approaches to security. To get the benefits companies need to move aggressively to improve their security operation.

The rising prominence of organized crime in network-based attacks is creating new, more focused and effective attack strategies. Mitigation of this threat can only be achieved through a responsive, coordinated and enterprise-wide security program.

IT initiatives continue to take place without sufficient, early involvement of security in the design process. It costs far more to secure a system that is about to be deployed than it costs to secure a system that is about to be designed!

Conclusion

Walls warns that it is impossible to generalize across all of Asia the quality of security practices. He reminds us that as with other areas of business operations, different communities have advanced more rapidly than others due to a variety of factors.

“In general, deployment of security policies, processes and methodologies is performed well in the principal financial centers in Asia, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Shanghai. The need for security activities is driven by the risk appetite of the business leaders of a company. As organizations grow in size, they tend to become more conservative and risk averse. As a result they demand higher levels of security assurance,” observes Walls.

It is therefore natural that companies in financial centers have higher levels of security activities than other industries.

In 2006, Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CCB) conducted a comprehensive examination of its information security environment. The exercise culminated in the company achieving Cybertrust Security Management Program (SMP) certification.

According to Chang Ruu-tian, executive vice president of Chinatrust Commercial Bank, “CCB was able to thoroughly reinforce its information security management program with expertise that help pinpoint weaknesses of existing external information systems, track records of improvements and examine the underlying causes of the problems.”

The result is a clean bill of health the bank uses to position itself as one of the most secure financial institutions in Taiwan.

Ng suggests that successful security initiatives have several characteristics that ensure they survive beyond the discussion tables (whether at the Boardroom or at the war room where execution begins). “The approach can only be holistic – no piece meal tactical approach can survive long. It must have a starting baseline from which success or failure can be measured against. Initiatives need to be reviewed regularly against prevailing (and perhaps even speculative) conditions,” concludes Ng.

Walls offers five best practices in creating and deploying a security initiative:

Understand the business priorities that are driving the initiative.

Determine how you will measure the success or failure of the initiative and negotiate these metrics with the business stakeholders

Prioritize vendors that have local support organizations to assist with design, deployment and management

Involve business leaders and users in the deployment plan to obtain organizational support

Call high, call wide, call often! Make sure that everyone from the CEO down are aware of their role in the initiative and are regularly updated on progress.

Whichever you want to listen to, you have to begin and that time should be yesterday.

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by Prophetess D

God gave me Ezekiel 33 13 years ago. He told me to warn the Jews to return to Israel, because “the sword is coming“. When 911 happened, He told me “tell them NOW”. God sent Zeev Jabotinsky to Europe to warn Europe’s Jews to return to Israel, to avoid the Holocaust. If they had listened, they would NOT have died in the camps. Similarly, God is calling the diaspora Jews, especially American Jews, to return now, to avoid attack by radical Islam, and also a fascist police state, a global government, called the New World Order (Hitler called the 3rd Reich the New World Order too-I saw it on a newspaper from Germany in Jerusalem)-it is an old agenda of the Devil to kill God’s people, which includes Jews and Christians (The Nazis were not Christians-they were occultists-devil worshippers). The real Christians hid and helped the Jews and went to the camps with them, i.e. Corrie Ten Boom.

Don’t think that what happened in Germany can’t happen in America – it can, and we are very close. Naomi Wolf’s book The End of America (2008) is a prophetic warning about the fact that of 10 criteria for a fascist state, they are all happening here. Laws (executive orders) have been put in place to declare martial law which voids the constitution, using any crisis as an excuse.

It is rumored that they intend mass evacuations to camps (FEMA camps – they are to be run by FEMA). Detention camps have been built in this country and are ready to be used. Kellog Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, got a huge contract in 2006 to build them. Google American Concentration camps and you will see a list of them. They include army bases and WWII internment camps. Jim Marrs’ best-selling book The Rise of the Fourth Reich talks about how Nazism went underground and is now surfacing as their plan for global enslavement, which was their plan all along. Now they call it the New World Order. It is being run by groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bildeberger Group, which are multinational corps, European Royalty, media heads and especially international Banks, who set policy economically and politically for the world. People who are behind this in this country are David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Zbig Brzezinski. Their agenda is the new world order, removal of the US as a sovereign country and merging us with the EU. They have been talking about this since the l950′s, when the Bildeberger group first met. One of their agendas is depopulation of  the planet. (see blog for more on this) Bill Gates gave a speech saying the purpose of vaccines (which have poison) is depopulation. “World population needs to be reduced by 50%” H. Kissinger. “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Kissinger, NY Times, Oct 28 l973.

God wants the Jews in Israel. There will be supernatural protection there, even if Iran attacks, just like there was in the Gulf War when Saddam Hussein sent 39 scuds to Tel Aviv and not one exploded.

One reason God wants the Jews in Israel is because it will solve the Palestinian problem. If more Jews are there, the Jewish population will outnumber the Arab population by a bigger margin and so they will feel more secure that it will remain a Zionist homeland. They will  be able to give the Palestinians full voting rights and stop oppressing them. God wants one Israel, not two states. Everytime they say they will make two states, God does something to stop it. Ariel Sharon said it, and he had a stroke. Olmert said it, and his government fell apart.There is a pattern, because it is not God’s will. The west bank should be a part of Israel, with everyone living together in peace.

New York is also a target for radical Islam, but there is a lot of evidence that 911 and the other attacks are “false flags” – set ups by our own government to justify passing tyrannical laws and going to war so people can profiteer.

A supernatural prophetic warning appeared in the Boston Globe in 2001 Oct 9. A story about the formation of Homeland Security showing George Bush and Tom Ridge, the first Director, standing in front of a flag. What appeared was not an American flag, but a nazi swastika. I saw it, and so did others. This was God’s warning about the spirit behind Homeland Security, and the war on terror, and the new world order.

“Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered LA to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful!…This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. ..when presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” Henry Kissinger, Bildeberger Conference, Evians, France l991

Google Nick Rockefeller/Aaron Russo. Russo was an indep. filmmaker who became friends with NR, who told him that 911 was created to justify going to war and creating an ongoing war on terror, as a hoax, to enslave the people, including putting microchips in everyone. The New Testament warns against taking chips, in the book of Rev. ch 13, calling it the “mark of the beast” which is the mark that the demonic world leader, the head of the new world order, will try to make people take. It says the mark will be without which no man can buy or sell. Rev 13:16. it will be used to replace money. Debit cards are the transitional step between money and an implantable chip.The bible warns that anyone who takes this mark will suffer eternal torment in hell.  People will need to rely on God for supernatural provision rather than taking this mark. The new healthcare bill, H.R. 3300 on p. 1001, mandates microchips. It establishes a registry for medical devices, in ref. to a previous FDA reg that mandates “implantable transponders for ID and healthcare info.” God has also warned me that they will use vaccines to chip people sneakily.

God is using terrorists to judge America for her sins, if they don’t repent and turn back to God, just like He used Nebuchadnezzar to judge Israel for her sins in ancient times. Jeremiah 18:7-8 tells us that if God says he will bring judgment on a nation,  but people repent, He will change His mind. Other prophets have said that God is weeping over America, wanting her to turn back to Him.

The New Testament  tells us the global police state will happen, but ultimately will be defeated by Jesus and His Kingdom. It is the government of the anti-Christ. it is a multi-king (nation) government, referred to as a beast, in the book of Revelation.

The book of Revelation has prophecies of the end times, before Jesus returns. We are very close. Matthew 24 describes signs of the end of the age before Jesus returns. I read an article that calculated that there are more of these signs happening in the last 20 years than ever before (wars, famines, earthquakes, plagues).

Nations need to repent to avoid judgment through wars, plagues and natural disasters, all of which are tools used by God to bring people to repentance, to seek Him. We need to be saved now. There is no time to waste. If there is nuclear war, people won’t have the chance to repent later.

Individuals need to repent to be saved, and salvation, as Jesus said, is of the Jews. Yeshua, Jesus’ Hebrew name, means Salvation. Salvation comes by accepting Yeshua, the messiah of the Jews on a personal level and asking to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to be born again.

Read Isaiah 53. It is not in the liturgy in temples, precisely because it so obviously describes Jesus. It says “for the transgressions of my people he was stricken. My righteous servant shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.“  Jesus was the atonement for our sins, once and for all. The Jews used to sacrifice animals for sins, until the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. God allowed the temple to be destroyed precisely because it was no longer necessary to do so, since Jesus had paid the price once and for all for everyone.

Jeremiah 31:31 came to me in a dream when I asked God if Jesus was the messiah. It says “I will make a NEW covenant with the house of Israel, not like the one I made with them when I led them out of Egypt, which they brake..I will write my law on their minds and hearts, and I will forgive their sins.” This is describing the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said “unless ye be born of the water and born of the Spirit, ye shall not see the Kingdom of Heaven”  The forgiveness of sins through Yeshua was the new covenant, the fulfillment of the prophecies and the destiny of the Jewish people.

Some scriptures from the New Testament about the Divinity of Jesus from the Gospel of John:

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God,and the word was God. 1:1

And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, full of grace and truth.  1:14

The law came by Moses, but grace and truth come by Jesus Christ. 1:17

Jesus prayed to the Father in John 17:5, saying, “Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was.”

Isaiah 9:6 says “to us a son is born, to us a child is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, everlasting father, mighty God, prince of peace.”

The book of Hebrews ch 1 says: God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds. Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,  when he had by himself purged our sins,sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16.

The trinity vs. the Schma: 

1 John 5:7 says “There are 3 that bear record in Heaven, the Father, Word and the Holy SpIrit,and these 3 are 1″.

The schma says “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. The word for 1 in Hebrew is ECHAD. That same word is used in Genesis 2:24 “A man shall leave his mother and cleave to his wife and the 2 shall be one flesh.” Here the word denotes a compound unity, two people, yet one in the flesh. SO echad means a compound unity in the Schma, meaning the Godhead is really 3-father, word and Holy Spirit (called Ruach HaKodesh in Hebrew). I got a personal revelation of the meaning of Echad when I was at El AL and I was going thru the turnstile. A man came up behind me and the Israeli said to me, “Echad?” meaning “are you one with him?”  The Hebrew word for God is Elohim, which is the plural form.

I prayed to Adonai, God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and God answered me with “Don’t deny the name of my Son, and my Word is true.” Read a King James or New King James bible. The modern translations are corrupted, they leave out scriptures and omit a lot of words.

In the book of Acts ch 2 Peter said to “repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Jesus said, “All authority has been given to me in Heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

You can go to Israel SUPERNATURALLY by the spirit of God without money or airplanes. Go outside. Travel light. Fast. Pray in the name of Jesus for God to take you there. Jesus said “if you ask anything in my name, I will do it….nothing shall be impossible to you. Math 17.  Travelling supernaturally by the spirit of God happened to Phillip in the Book of Acts ch 8 (NT) and Ezekiel ch 3 (OT).

Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the light. Noone comes to the Father but by me.”

In Deut. 4 God says “if you seek me with your whole heart and soul and mind you will find me.”

So we also have to make the effort to find the truth. God answers through dreams, visions, signs, talking with us in our thoughts, and giving us a witness of His presence when we search the scriptures. 

In these times of upheaval, it is urgent that we establish a relationship with God so that he can lead us by His spirit to guide us and protect us. The Holy Spirit has been on the earth for 2,000 years, to talk to us. Jesus sent it when he ascended to Heaven. All thoughts come to us from the spiritual realm. The word inspiration means “a spirit goes into it”. Our conscience is God talking to us. Demonic spirits can also talk to us, if we give them an opening, (sin is one opening; we need to repent of it; there are others, so we need to be right with God and learn to discern the difference. My books and articles talk about this. Read Spiritual Wisdom, and Manual for Transformational Healing-God’s Answer to Psychiatry. They are free on my website  http://1prophetspeaks.com.

Jesus not only saves, he heals. It is God’s will to heal us, when we repent of our sins. When we accept Jesus, we gain authority to rebuke afflictions of all kinds, which are caused by spirits of those afflictions. I know this from experience; I have been healed many times. There is no disease that cannot be healed by God through Jesus. Jesus said, “if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” John 14:14. He told his followers to preach the gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons. Matt 10:8  We don’t need to rely on doctors and healthcare. God heals directly by the Holy Spirit. The New Testament testifies to this. God is free, doesn’t make mistakes, and has no side effects. He trumps medicine every time.

It is important to remove openings for demonic oppression, which can affect our thoughts, emotions or bodies, causing mental and physical illness. Some things to be considered are: sin (need to repent); bad books which lie about the bible/God such as new age, witchcraft, philosophy, psychiatry, bad music (heavy metal, rap, a lot of rock, blues, country, are openings for other spirits which can cause depress-, among other things), art (which invokes gods from other cultures, idols to God; symbols which can invoke other spirits, such as peace signs (an anti-christ symbol), Jewish stars (in the bible God calls it “the star of your god,”an idol, which the prophet Amos talks about. The Jewish star, called the Star of David, is a misnomer; King David never used. His son Solomon got it from Egypt and put it on his shield. So it invoked Egyptian gods.) Occult objects such as tarot cards, Ouija boards, need to be renounced and removed. They bring curses. All drugs which affect the mind are openings for demonic oppression. This includes caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot, cocaine, lsd, etc and ALL psych meds. The drug handbooks admit that the anti-psychotics and anti-depressants can cause psychosis. This is because they are openings for demons.  All of the school shooters were TAKING anti-psychotics and anti-depressants.

By removing things around us that are openings for demonic oppression, we can receive healing physically and mentally. The peace of God will then come to our house and it will be easier to hear from God.  When I got rid of my new age books, I developed a singing voice I did not have before. As I got rid of psychology/psychiatry books by Freud, I felt oppression around my head go away. New age books & psychiatry & philosophy books  do not bring mental peace.  Chap. 7 in Manual for Transformational Healing has a checklist for openings for demonic oppression.

To receive healing, it may be necessary to pray to remove any curses that have been spoken by oneself or others. There can be curses due to the sins of our ancestors. The First Commandment talks about this. These can be broken by praying the blood of Jesus over the person.  Oppression around one person can cause problems for others. Spirits jumps around. Parents who drink coffee can have hyper kids, for example, since drugs are openings for demonic spirits. This includes all drugs that affect the mind, including caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot, cocaine, lsd, etc and ALL psych meds. The drug handbooks admit that anti-psychotics and anti-depressants can cause psychosis. This is because the drugs are openings for demonic attack, which causes it.

My website http://1prophetspeaks.com has articles &  free books which also includes more info. on this, entitled Spiritual Wisdom, and  Manual for Transformational Healing: God’s Answer to Psychiatry which warns about atheistic psychiatry and their toxic drugs & how to be healed of mental & physical illness through prayer & worship in Jesus’ name.  Writings on God, music, education, warnings about the mental health system & the new world order.  Warnings about fluoridated water, vaccines, microchips.The article “The New World Order-A prophetic Warning to Jews” at talks more about this.There are articles about healing.  My blog is http://1prophetspeaks.blogspot.com.

The website also has worship music you can listen to. Psalms says that “God inhabits the praise of his people.” Worship invokes the Spirit of God. Prophetess D     1prophetspeaks@gmail.com

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From: Thenewyorkcritic www.youtube.com Toward the Obama/Bush New World Order! A new cyberbullying bill aims to punish those who intend to cause “emotional distress” online with fines, jail time, or both. The problem—as usual—is the vague language used in the bill, which leaves many critics concerned that it could be used to censor speech on the Internet. A recently introduced cyberbullying bill could land us all in jail—that is, if you have ever used an electronic medium to troll someone. HR 1966, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, is named after the high-profile “MySpace suicide” victim Megan Meier. It’s meant to prevent people from using the Internet to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.” However, as with many bills of this nature, the murky language and vague standards leave much open to interpretation, which has caused critics to call it the Censorship Act instead. HR 1966 was introduced in April by US Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and it’s supported by 14 other members of Congress. According to the text, individuals who bully others via any electronic means could face fines, two years in prison, or both. This, of course, could include those nasty text messages you sent to your ex on Saturday night, the questionable e-mail you sent to your brother, or those forum posts you made in which you called for someone who liked the new Star Trek movie to jump off a building. The bill largely flew under the radar …

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People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, “If you want to be a success you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”

The weakness that the hackers have found is the WordPress Blog. Many may have never considered a blog to be worthy of a hacker’s attention, yet with the way that advertising and marketing dollar potential have soared, that’s what sets a hacker off on their hunt for a victim.

The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, one hacker attack, no matter how quickly it’s spotted and dealt with, can destroy all the work that the owner of that blog has done. If it’s a blog full of content with years of archive material, a hacker’s attack will turn all of that work into worthless untrustworthy words.

The attacks launched on WordPress Blogs by hackers get even worse for the blog owners. Google, for example, when (not if) their robots detect something suspicious about a WordPress Blog will include the following in the search result for that WordPress Blog.

“This site may harm your computer.”

If a person clicks on that phrase, which appears as a link within the search result listing, they will be taken to a page that will repeat the warning of harm to their computer and suggest that they go to another site or blog that came up in their search results.

Even if a WordPress Blog owner catches the damage quickly, the time it will take to repair that blog’s reputation will be costly at a variety of levels. People will remember the warnings of computer harm no matter how strongly it’s presented that all with that WordPress Blog is well. A loss of blog traffic will mean a loss of ad revenue. In many cases this could mean the loss of advertisers since many affiliate ad programs require a specific level of traffic activity.

WordPress Blog owners make the mistake of thinking that since the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they’ll be able to catch the problem before it becomes a major disaster. They would have to be proactive rather than reactive and monitor their WordPress Blog every minute of every hour of every day. Just five minutes under a hacker’s control can destroy the connection that WordPress Blog had made with the thousands of people who visit it at any point.

While WordPress does the best they can with security updates, that’s still just a reactive option for the WordPress blog owner. There is a proactive step every WordPress Blog owner can take to prevent hackers from destroying the work and reputation of their WordPress Blog.

Internet developer and expert James Stein, with 15 years experience in the development of programs that assist and educate people, has created WordPress Secured. Instead of one plug-in fix after another, WordPress Secured brings total security to every WordPress Blog that anyone can learn and benefit from.

WordPress Secured teaches how to close the many open doors WordPress Blogs contain which hackers exploit. It teaches how to find a blog’s softspots and strengthen them. Users discover how to protect their important avenues of ad revenue. WordPress Secure makes the blog owner not only more secure but more smart and aware about their blog.

WordPress Secure also includes a special feature called BadBot Killer. This program stops the scanning bots that seek out a WordPress Blog’s weaknesses that are the welcome mats for computer hackers. BadBot Killer stops the hackers even before they can find the front door to a WordPress Blog.

The amount of knowledge and information required to do a WordPress Blog post-hacking repair is large and above the heads of many WordPress Blog owners. WordPress Secure is one easy and educational package that keeps the WordPress Blog owner steps ahead any hacker.

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Blogs are vulnerable and need security, developers work overtime on this, releasing updates as fast as they can in response to a threat. Still, you need to keep up with the news on security issues and risks. You must read tips on keeping your blog safe from new hackers attacking blog passwords.

Sometimes Internet Explorer and some other applications, add a bit to the file to mark it as being downloaded from the Internet. It serves as a warning that this may be unsafe content. If the file is digitally signed, the warning does not have the red shield, and the publisher is listed in the dialog, but otherwise it stays the same.

Internet Explorer adds a flag to downloaded file through alternate data streams, and there are tools that can show you those streams, and even the built-in unzip tool in Windows adds the same flag if the archive that was unzipped has the flag set. The point, however, was not how a very technically savvy user can download an advanced tool and manually review the alternate data streams, and possibly remove them. If all you want to do is remove that flag it would be far simpler, in fact, to uncheck the box in the dialog for “Always ask before opening this file”; although maybe inspecting and twiddling with alternate data streams would be more satisfying for some segment of computer users.

You must educate yourself first and then educate your users. Teach them that the warning is there so that they can assess whether they want to accept the risk involved in opening applications off the Internet. In this case, you have digitally signed the application so they can trace it to you and have assurance that they are, in fact, opening a trusted application. Anytime they get a dialog like this they should evaluate it and see if they really want to accept that risk or not. If the publisher is unknown, they have no way to tell who wrote the application, and should consider it a higher risk.

There are very good reasons for these warnings in many cases. Rather than trying to prevent users from seeing them we all need to do our part to help users understand what they are seeing and make appropriate decisions based on that data. That would provide a savvier user base and a more secure Eco-system in the long run. We cannot keep focusing on preventing people from making risk management decisions any longer. If we do, eventually, they will realize they do not have the skills to do so, and that nobody is willing to help them acquire those skills. At that point, the Eco-system will be in danger of collapse.

Social networking blogs like give scam artists and virus writers new ways to package tried-but-true tricks. The latest example of this making the rounds is an e-mail that appears to be an invitation from Face book to add a friend: A recipient who opens an attached image to take a look at their new friend instead opens the door for hackers to compromise his PC.

Here a few tips and things to keep in mind that can help you avoid being burned by e-mail based attacks.

E-mail addresses in the “From” field can be easily spoofed. So never open attachments in e-mails that you weren’t expecting, even if the -mail appears to come from some person you know and trust. (Legitimate friend requests, in fact, don’t include attachments).

Avoid responding to unsolicited e-mails. You’ll only let spammers know they’ve got a mark for future e-mails.

Consider switching from HTML e-mail to text-based messages only. Malicious JavaScript and nasty instructions written in other powerful scripting languages can be embedded in HTML messages, and in many cases that code will load as soon as you view the message.

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