CollectionMine

You have probably invested a lot of time (a lifetime?) and effort in creating and accumulating your personal data. Your family tree, thesis, digital artwork and photography, a manuscript or a musical score, home made videos, your will and other legal documents are just some of the kinds of personal data you may have compiled. They are important to you, and possibly important to others, and are well worth safeguarding.

Consider whether you can afford the time and effort to replicate your personal data if something happens to your computer. And is it possible at all to replicate it?

CollectionMine’s offsite data backup allows you to securely store your most valued and important computer files easily and inexpensively.

Consider what you can’t afford to lose! Large amounts of data or small, you only pay for the storage space you use when backing up using CollectionMine’s offsite data backup software! And you control what gets backed up and how often! And only you can access your private documents!

Protect your valuable computer files against virus, theft, environmental impact, hardware failure, and accidental deletion, etc. Put your mind at ease for just $62.50 a year.

With today’s economy a lot of us are looking online for ways to make some extra cash. Some of us harbor hopes of finding an opportunity that allows us to work from home and rake in piles of money for very little effort

Every year hundreds of thousands of computers are stolen. Granted, not all of us are storing literary works of art, but most of us are keeping something that we value on our computers.

The upcoming income tax season is another prime opportunity for scam artists to ply their trade. In Canada scammers are sending out emails purporting to be from Canada Revenue Agency, and good news: You have a refund!

The recent economic downturn has meant very hard times for a lot of people. With so many people out of work and/or out of money, the stage has been set for a proliferation of fraudulent Internet schemes.

Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter are designed to allow you to share information such as who you are and what you’re doing. But users should consider who is privy to their posts.

There are a few ways that someone can gain unauthorized access to your email account. Possibly your password is too simple and someone can guess it. Or your password is great but someone can guess the answer to your password reset question.

Phishing involves a criminal sending out legitimate-looking e-mails to try to get the recipients to hand over personal and financial information. It usually involves the victim clicking on a link that takes them to a bogus website which looks very much like the legitimate site.

Firesheep lets you hijack other people’s insecure social network connections.  If someone uses a public WiFi connection to log onto Facebook et al., anyone using Firesheep can capture and display their authentication information.