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don’t get yourself in trouble with Corrie Orpin Did you know that social network websites such as Facebook can provide the ideal forum for spammers and hackers to engage in all types of cyber crime? Due to the inherent trust factor involved, most people don’t think twice before clicking on a link sent from a friend. Additionally, as personal information is disseminated to all corners of the web from the enormous user bases of social networks, hackers and crooks have more opportunity than ever to implement their cyber attacks. The top three threats to social networks are malware, spam and phishing and all three threats go hand in hand. Get your security act together.

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In today’s economy, businesses and their IT infrastructure need to do more with less. Now, both large enterprises and SMBs have the opportunity to optimise productivity and minimise total cost of ownership by consolidating multiple security technologies in a single SonicWALL Firewall solution. Moreover, SonicWALL firewalls maximise security against web-based threats from social media sites and microblogs, threats from laptops and wireless mobile devices connecting from outside the corporate network, threats from malware-laden emails, and threats to productivity and network performance from streaming music or a video site.

What now? After realising the potential threats prevailing on social networking websites the next step is to secure your data and PC from hackers. Ask your local service provider about a free network security audit so you can better secure and protect your PC. Secure Access 5443 7766 corrie@secureaccess.com.au

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