Considering purchasing a computer or laptop for business or for yourself? Need to complete budgeted computer purchases before the New Year?

Don’t forget to check Cebic’s PRODUCTS page on our web site for servers, desktops or laptop computers tailored to your needs with the software you want and use, not what someone else wants to sell you.

Cebic Technologies now offers on-going or single incident support through an on-line Help Desk at www.cebic.com. To access the help desk, visit our web site at www.cebic.com and click on the last button -- SUPPORT. This will take you to Cebic's on-line tech support center, where submitting a support query to Cebic technicians is easy and trackable 24 hours per day. Support is provided per hour (billed in fractional increments) via credit card or existing client account.

The Help Desk provides support on computer security issues, viruses, networking problems, software/hardware conflicts, operating system software, and hardware and software product questions.

Technical support queries are answered within one hour. You can view the status of your support request on line through passworded access to your query on the Help Desk. To find out more, visit the Help Desk today and walk through the log-in process, or call Cebic for more information. It costs you nothing to establish a Help Desk login identity and could prove a lifesaver if a computer problem should arise.

A new generation of hacker tools have started showing up that are reminiscence of the cloaked Romulan star ships of the early Star Trek episodes. These new tools allow a virus or malware to hide from the computer’s operating system by bypassing the computer’s directories, registry and port scans.

While Cebic technicians have developed a way to remove the cloaking software without reinstalling the operating system, it’s very difficult to know that the computer is infected and has a problem.

“Hackers are coming up with new things all the time,” explained Johan Hybinette, Cebic’s Chief Technology Officer. “Businesses have to realize that they can’t just buy a firewall and think they are protected. The greatest vulnerability for most businesses is their computer system, and it’s also the area they typically know the least about.”

To find out more about how you can protect your computer network, contact Cebic Technologies at 1-888-232-4226 or info@cebic.com

Wondering how your computer network picked up its latest virus? You may need to look no further than the internet surfing habits within your company.

“The number one rule to minimize the risk of contacting malware is don’t go to inappropriate sites,” explains Beate Hybinette. “Gambling, music, gamer and porno sites are primary sources of viruses. Big companies have recognized the danger of these sites and are continually tightening their internet policies to prohibit non-business surfing. Increasingly, if you don’t need internet access as part of your job, you don’t have access at the major corporations. But smaller businesses have been hesitant to restrict employees’ internet use.”

Early emails that sought to trick recipients into revealing sensitive financial data, such as credit cards, bank accounts, PIN numbers and access codes, were relatively simple and often gave themselves away with awkward wording and typos. Today’s phishing emails are much more sophisticated, typically using graphics and links that appear on the host site of the firm the email pretents is sending the message. A increasingly common ploy is to imply that you have won a prize, or qualify for a very attractive offer.

Citing reports from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) that indicate a 100 percent increase in the number of phishing sites between September and October 2004, Paul Henry, a senior vice president at CyberGuard, states, "Between 80 and 100 new phishing Web sites are starting up daily. Scammers are getting much more sophisticated and they are harder for a user to detect."

Before you answer any emails that appear to asking you to provide, confirm, or verify sensitive information, ask yourself: 1) is this how the firm typically communicates with me, 2) is the URL or senders address (if visible) something I recognize, and 3) do I really qualify for the offer being made? If you think you really qualify for the offer being made, then open a new browser window, go to the company's web site directly, and log in there for more information.

We are plesed to welcome Mark Hamilton, Daniel Baker and Patty Kachersky to our Cebic team!

Cebic Technologies, Inc., is a leading information security consulting and monitoring firm, helping businesses reduce their security risks through:
Security audits
Security monitoring
Security policy development
Security infrastructure installation, training, and ongoing support
Cebic Technology security audits and vulnerability assessments help entrepreneurial businesses protect their critical data and network resources. Our monitoring services secure your network and maximize your resources by proactively monitoring 7x24. We also provide offsite backup and disaster recovery database management and technical support for security issues, operating systems, networks, and hardware and software products.