Seasonal shopping is a common problem with most businesses, but with hacking and phishing technology advancing at such a huge rate, there is more at stake than just a few minutes off the time clock being wasted.

With a growing number of holiday shoppers making purchases online, so too has the number of people doing their shopping on their office computer.  It is estimated that as many as 54.5 percent of workers with internet access take time out of their daily routine to do online shopping.

Losing productivity levels from workers who shop online is bad enough, but with the growing amount of online retailers there is also a growing amount of hackers willing to create fraudulent websites.  With current technology they not only go after credit card and social security numbers of their victims, but can and will implant malicious code into the site that can compromise data on the computer the site was accessed from.

If this seems like an implausible scenario to you, consider the sheer amount of people now checking up on Facebook at work just like they would their email.  With the new Beacon service able to confuse most at the "opt out" option,  the idea of a smart phisher attacking your network through your employee’s is all the more realistic.

Even with the less than pleasant realities of business network security, Total Tech has released Secure Office.  A network security program made for problems like these; it will at least lift a bit of weight off your shoulders when thinking about your office network security this year, despite Hackers and Security firm’s constant battle of trying to out think each other.

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Entry was posted on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 7:47 pm under Ecommerce, Security, Software.

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