Month: December 2017

Even if you have dotted every “i” and crossed every “t”, your business is not immune to data breaches. In recent years, the U.S. has experienced an endless stream of credit card fraud and other types of data breaches. But these breaches only affect the “big guys”, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, your small business can easily fall prey to these data breaches too.

Small Businesses are Vulnerable to Fraud, but Why?

It’s true that large corporation’s money and resources make them an attractive target. However, even the smallest of small businesses are frequently hit as well. Just recently, a new cybercrime trend has emerged in the form of malicious emails – sent to business both large and small – that have the power to hijack a business’ entire data system, known as “ransomware”. It may seem odd that thieves would target a small business over a large corporation, but there are many reasons why small sellers are a target.

First, just like mega-retailers, small businesses collect and store their customer’s credit card data. Because security is not always a big priority, it leaves these small businesses even more vulnerable to attack. Second, many small businesses have yet to adopt the more secure chip card readers. For the businesses that have not upgraded their credit card scanner and swipers to accept the new cards, they are required to pay for the costs associated with any breach or fraud that may occur – potentially a daunting some of money.

How to Protect Your Small Business

• Create a Privacy Policy – Make sure when you draft your privacy policy that it details your business’ obligations when it comes to data (limit your liability).
• Educate Your Team – Go over how your employees should safeguard their data and the business’ customer’s data. Make sure you also offer regular trainings, and clearly communicate what happens when someone fails to follow protocol.
• Establish Strong Protocols – Inform your employees whether they can use public networks. You should also establish requirements for locking PCs and laptops, and specify using strong passwords.
• Examine Insurance Coverage – Believe it or not, cyberattacks are not covered under most general liability insurance policies. Thus, it is critical that you purchase a rider that covers both first- and third- party’s expenses and liability.

Seek Additional Help and Resources

Sadly, every business nowadays, regardless of size, is vulnerable to theft and cyberattacks. The best move you can make for you small business is to stay aware of cybercrime trends, update equipment and educate your employees. Another way you can be proactive is to secure the services of a processing provider – like Payworld – that offer fraud protection services and secure payment processing solutions. If you are interested in such services, consider the information a Payworld review provides via Bestpaymentproviders.

Author Bio: Electronic payments expert Taylor Cole is a passionate entrepreneur who enjoys to write, produce music, and travel. Bestpaymentproviders is the UK’s best Payworld review company, serving both traditional and high-risk merchants.…

In a Manhattan courtroom, a case for $250 million dollars was dismissed concerning a civil tax-fraud case. The case was formed against a Russian American, Felix Sater. The case was dismissed on Wednesday. A business insider had learned.

This case against Felix Sater was formed against the real estate associate of President Donald Trump. The President is a co-founder of Bayrock. The case was being handled as a qui tam case. What this is, it’s a whistleblower who can file the case against the business on behalf of the state. After which the attorney general can then become involved, if they choose to.

In this case, Lawyer Fred Oberlander is reported as the whistleblower. It was during one point that the lawyer had also represented someone who was a business partner of Sater. His former business partner, Jody Kriss was being investigated as being a part of a suit against the corporation for supposedly a money laundering case.

The lawyer went on record as admitting to being the person who filed the qui tam case. There was knowledge on his part that showed pertinent information had been left out from the original complaint by federal judges. A business insider who was present at the hearing acknowledged about the attorney.

The argument that Oberlander presented did not go over so well for him. It is most likely a complaint that will be eventually dismissed. Based on the information presented by Oberlander, all the information that was presented to the federal judges was information that had been ordered once before to be removed. The complaint was to be ordered as confidential.

Once the hearing was over, Sater and attorney, Robert Wolf went on to confirm that in all honesty, the case was being dismissed.

It was the Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his office that decided to not go further in the case during the last year. In a letter that was sent to the New York Supreme Court, notified them in February of 2016 as being used during a press release where the attorney, Oberlander had released information in a press release as going on record stating that the attorney general had gave a green light on a case when in fact the press release was a lie. The state had notified Oberlander as their plans to not intervene.

The office of the attorney general said that as the case continues to go forward, they will in fact stay on top of it by monitoring what is occurring in hopes to protect the state in their interest and rights.

The attorney for Sater went on record stating that the movie was being dismissed on the grounds of the merits of the case. The case was being dismissed at the merits of it instead of on the procedural grounds. It is on record that Oberlander and a separate attorney that were involved with Sater for a different case were involved in mishandlings by the attorneys where they have been referred over to the department of justice for their part in criminal contempt charges. These charges were pressed for proceedings that were taking place against Sater.

In the initial suit, in 2010, which was brought forth against Sater and against Bayrock and their former finance planner, Jody Kriss who played no part in the qui tam case that was later brought forth by Oberlander. There are allegations that are circling around the existence of the Bayrock company that says there is a mob covertly involved and operating the business. The business is slated to have engaged in activity that is considered as crime related for fraud in cases against wire, bank and mail fraud with their involvement in tax evasion and embezzlement.

The founder of the corporate business, Tevfik Arif Doyen is said to have cheated millions of dollars through the use of money laundering and fraud and other cases of misconduct. In December, the judge ruled that the case against Tevfik Arif Bayrock could not go any further.…

Back in the 1980s, the era in which personal computers made breakthroughs in offices, schools and in homes. The first computers are large and they take longer to power up. In contrast to the computing devices, we use today. However, today’s computers represent radical changes in life. Because the typewriter soon became an ancient relic.

Social Changes via the Tech Revolution

However, just like the emergence of a faster and more sophisticated computer. Later there will be more changes. As if the means of communication always carried by personal computers was not enough, in the 1990s. Something called “the Internet” comes into everyone’s life, and things change faster.

As the Internet caught on as a means of quickly communicating with everyone everywhere, at lightning speed, many of the old ways of doing things fell by the wayside.

While in the final years of paper and pens, the postal service offers a way of applying for jobs or bank loans or schools, now all the tasks we can do in a digital way. Over time, society adjusted to these changes, even as the Internet also changed the way people read and write.

Changes in the Publishing Industry

As all of this social change progressed, changes in the publishing industry were inevitable. While in the past, magazines with content ranging from fashion tips to information on industrial vacuum components and thin film were always distributed in print, today those types of publications (and books) are usually available in print and in digital form. What’s interesting to note is that the digital revolution didn’t totally stop the printing industry.

Ultimately, what is visible is that even with all the changes that occur over the Internet, people still love to read. They love reading books and magazines they can hold when they enjoy the information they follow. In some ways, this fact defies the changes of the Internet revolution, but ultimately, it’s rather reassuring, too.…