Critical Security Threats for Real Estate Investors
by blogger1
on Tuesday, 04 September 2012
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What is the FBI doing with your phone data, was your information just leaked on the web and are you prepared for having your entire online presence vaporized?
Real estate investors are under more threats than ever before and unless they are prepared not only can their identities be stolen but their online businesses and data can be wiped out overnight!
What’s the FBI doing with your Information Now?
Hackers just published 1 million Apple device ID’s on the web, was yours one of them?
Worse, the hack which tapped more than 12 million Apple user IDs, mobile phone numbers, addresses and names involved the laptop of a top regional FBI cyber-crime supervisor. Besides the immediate threat of investors’ data being leaked many may wonder what the FBI is doing with their information and how they got it?
Backup or be put out of Business
On Friday another major issue for real estate investors emerged as an Apple customer service representative handed over control of accounts to a hacker. This resulted in the targeting of a California journalist who had his Mac, iPhone and iPad wiped clean, email accounts and web based file storage wiped out and social media account hijacked. What would that do to your real estate investing business?
Besides the immediate interruption of contact and potentially business killing messages being sent from your email addresses and social media profiles it would mean losing all data on current and past deals as could mean your bank accounts being compromised too.
Clearly this would be devastating to any real estate investor. So how can you protect against it?
1. Make sure to use multiple step verification for all accounts when possible
2. Use a strong and unique password for each account you have
3. Don’t rely on one cloud database for file storage; back up locally and if you use iCloud also backup to Google Drive, Drop Box or other web file storage system
4. Have a backup device for getting online, taking calls and staying connected
Real estate investors are under more threats than ever before and unless they are prepared not only can their identities be stolen but their online businesses and data can be wiped out overnight!
What’s the FBI doing with your Information Now?
Hackers just published 1 million Apple device ID’s on the web, was yours one of them?
Worse, the hack which tapped more than 12 million Apple user IDs, mobile phone numbers, addresses and names involved the laptop of a top regional FBI cyber-crime supervisor. Besides the immediate threat of investors’ data being leaked many may wonder what the FBI is doing with their information and how they got it?
Backup or be put out of Business
On Friday another major issue for real estate investors emerged as an Apple customer service representative handed over control of accounts to a hacker. This resulted in the targeting of a California journalist who had his Mac, iPhone and iPad wiped clean, email accounts and web based file storage wiped out and social media account hijacked. What would that do to your real estate investing business?
Besides the immediate interruption of contact and potentially business killing messages being sent from your email addresses and social media profiles it would mean losing all data on current and past deals as could mean your bank accounts being compromised too.
Clearly this would be devastating to any real estate investor. So how can you protect against it?
1. Make sure to use multiple step verification for all accounts when possible
2. Use a strong and unique password for each account you have
3. Don’t rely on one cloud database for file storage; back up locally and if you use iCloud also backup to Google Drive, Drop Box or other web file storage system
4. Have a backup device for getting online, taking calls and staying connected
