You are only as credible as your online reputation. In fact if your online reputation is bad, you may have trouble getting your personal/company website, your blog or anything positive related to you – appearing on search engines.

This goes way beyond SEO and SEM. This is creating history. If history created around your name was bad, negative, otherwise just “non-positve” – you will not appear in search results. Your site may not be indexed (because if Google links you to something bad it must be true) – it can just get worse and worse!

Fortunately there’s a fix, a cure – and even methods of preventing this in the future!! One of my friends just had this issue… 2 years ago. A really crooked and bitter ex-employee put up a horribly negative reputation, and its been difficult to get his website to appear easily on Google. Difficult to find clients who trust him, and hard to retain current clients and employees.

The fix was relatively painless, and in just 6 months the negative reputation vanished; replaced by positivity – and he had more clients than ever!!

Do call me for more info.

For years, Mac users have been told that not only are they cooler than their PC counterparts, they are safer too. Apple has always held that computer viruses and malware dogged only its competitors.

That is no longer the case.

This week, security researchers discovered that a new computer virus had infected half a million Macs — about half of them in the United States. The virus is infesting the computers in the most surreptitious way possible: users need not manually click on any malicious links or manually download any malware to get infected. The program simply downloads itself. Once downloaded, the malware’s creators gain a back door that gives them unauthorized access to the victim’s computer.

“This is the largest scale attack on Mac OS X to date,” said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab, an antivirus software company, who has analyzed the malware. “And much more sophisticated.”

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/widespread-computer-virus-indicates-mac-users-no-longer-safe/?smid=pl-share

However what they’ve neglected to mention is a cure. I’ve found a cure, and it is currently in use in our company.

Do call me for more info.

Latest update on the mobile data theft front – there have been 8.7 million mobile users hacked in South Korea – a shocking number any day!!

With the mobile becoming an easy to use accessory everyone wants to have their data at the touch of a finger… Apart from the traditional mobile theft you now have mobile data theft – where the mobile may be with you but the hacker can still steal your data. The best control for this – avoid putting valuable data (like bank passwords or credit card information) on your mobile. No matter what brand, no matter how carefully your mobile device is kept.

http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/8-7-million-mobile-customers-hacked-in-South-Korea-14031#.UBdysyzkbyk.email

If you feel you have placed valuable data on your phone but are not sure how to remove it – please contact us and we’ll help you in the process.