Welcome to the Iowa Telecom Security Team's website. Our sincere hope and goal is to provide you with easy-to-use and timely information to help you protect yourself while on-line. We do that by assessing threats posed by viruses and scams, composing how-to's and explaining the do's and don'ts of Internet security. Once again, welcome, and please feel free to use the Contact Form to ask us any questions you may have pertaining to staying safe on the web.
Posted by: Vereor [ITS Security] under Informative on August 7th, 2009
Things you need to know about botnets, but are afraid to ask.
Part Two
In part two of the botnet series I will discuss how to tell if your computer has been compromised and is a member of a botnet. I will also go over steps to take to clean your system if it has been compromised, [...]
Posted by: dropped packet [ITS Security] under Informative on August 4th, 2009
Have you ever wondered what all those acronyms are when dealing with your wireless network. It is good to know what these are, to make sure that you protect your data and your rights. In today’s write up I hope to demystify some of this geek speak.
Posted by: Nuuruvalar [ITS Security] under Informative on August 3rd, 2009
The big security snafu in the news lately was the hijacking of several e-billing sites and redirecting them to other websites designed to extract banking information out of users. Unfortunately this is a harder scam to spot than most others even if you understand how domain names work.
Posted by: dropped packet [ITS Security] under Uncategorized on July 28th, 2009
Well it looks like Iowa Telecom’s security site is drawing attention. Our security site was mentioned in an article about phishing posted by the Creston News Advertiser.
http://www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com/articles/2009/07/26/r_pw5v55lsoskaz38ltltmq/index.xml
Iowa Telecom is grateful to those that have visited our site and hope you spread the word. Iowa Telecom will continue to update our site with [...]
Posted by: jasn [ITS Security] under Informative on May 11th, 2009
These are just a few simple guidelines on what to look for when dealing with any type of electronic correspondence between yourself and a company. If you are ever in doubt it is always best to contact the company and ask them directly if the e-mail is legitimate or not. Most companies would rather have you contact them directly then have to deal with stolen information.
Posted by: Vereor [ITS Security] under Informative on May 11th, 2009
This two part series of articles will be devoted to botnets and malware. The first article will give a good overview of what a botnets and malware are. The second article in the series will teach you how to tell if your computer has been compromised and is a member of a botnet , how to prevent becoming a member of a botnet and how to clean your computer if it has been botnetted.
Posted by: Nuuruvalar [ITS Security] under How To on May 6th, 2009
In this Article we will give step by step instructions for Windows Update.