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 May 6th, 2009
“If something sounds too good to be true it probably is.” Good advice today just as it was years ago when I first heard it. A good thing to remember is that unsolicited E-Mail schemes are never legitimate. If something sounds too good to be true, it’s probably a scam.
Posted by: dropped packet [ITS Security] under Informative on May 6th, 2009
Unfortunately the world is a cruel place and we as consumers must protect ourselves from others that wish to do us harm. In this day and age you can’t see your attacker. So what should you do? You should be proactive. Such as checking your credit report and criminal history, yes criminal history. It is very possible to have someone else’s criminal history on yours. This is normally an innocent mistake but could cost you that job or loan.