Paper vs Digital Trails

It is now easier than ever to be able to follow someone's trail. No matter what you do online, there will always be a trail that can be followed. This means that your personal information can potentially be in danger. VoIP is the new incomer on the list. Gone are the days when in order to hack into people's conversations, you would have to set up physical bugs on the phones. Now you can do everything remotely; you do not even have to be in the same country. Something else that seems to be long gone is standard method of payment - cash. According to Business Insider, credit card companies are selling your purchase data to advertisers. Don’t want companies knowing how much booze you’re buying or other potentially embarrassing habits? Buy things the old fashioned way—with coins and bills. Lastly, often stores will ask for your zip code when you’re checking out with a credit card. Don’t give it to them unless you want to donate your details to their marketing database. Just some things to mull over while you are surfing the digital expanse.

VoIP Security

VoIP security tends to be lax or even non-existent compared to the measures routinely taken to protect other forms of data, such as records and emails. This is largely due to reasons already discussed along some important misconceptions.Security breaches along these lines could certainly be driven by monetary motives such as diverting customer payments, hacking into business bank accounts or even those of employees. Financial theft is really just one of three main types of security risks that can be exploited through your data network. Another type of hacking would be gaining access to other forms of data that competitors could use to undermine your business. One example would be gaining advance knowledge of your plans, such as a product launch, a patent filing, an acquisition, a plant closure, etc. Another would be stealing customer databases for purposes of poaching key accounts or spreading disinformation to drive your customers away. Unfortunately, there are plenty of companies that will not think twice about doing these things to either get ahead or not let new competitors into the market.