Feb 6, 2013 Think your safe on your cell phone network?

Quoting Howard Chui ...

"HowardForums is currently located at the temporary domain www.howardforum.com (no .s.). In case you can access this on some of your computers and not others, it will take a few hours for the changes to propagate throughout the Internet."

"Unfortunately, our domain was stolen over the weekend and I.m currently working with my registrar, GoDaddy on getting it back. While I initially thought GoDaddy wouldn't do anything till Monday, after a a few hours they got back to me. Since then, they have been working with me to get the domain back so kudos to them helping me on the weekend."

"The thief used the email to reset our GoDaddy account and then transferred the domain away. Before they did this they setup filters to automatically delete subsequent emails from GoDaddy. This would keep us from realizing our domain was about to be transferred away plus it would create the illusion that everything is okay."

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With a Port Defender Secure Network email account only members can access our email system. Anyone can send you email and you can send email anywhere, but only members logged into the VPN can read their email. We protect your email.

Our new VPN Wizard helps you find the best connection to our servers and monitors your network's health. You can easily select one of six different channels for your connection.

The VPN Wizard can be left on to monitor your network's health. It will 'ping' something once a second to determine any changes. Things that affect your Internet traffic are colored green, yellow or red. Green is good, yellow means your network might be slowing down and red means it's broken.

Portdefender.net introduces a new multichannel firewall piercing configuration. Our new configuration will adapt, finding a subnet that will run in your environment. It will cycle through several ip addresses until it finds one that works with your network.

Openvpn needs an IP address that doesn't conflict with your local subnet. Our new configuration offers three separate IP subnets and will cycle through each choice until it finds a configuration that works.

Many firewalls block the standard UDP port used by Openvpn. We changed our configuration to use standard TCP ports already open on the majority of firewalls. Installation and setup is simple, easy and fast. Just run the PDSetup.exe installer and click on the Portdefender Shortcut.

We also simplified the download process making it easier for our overseas customers to join the Portdefender Secure Network.

What a nightmare! An Apple technician gives up information (that he probably should not have). A hacker uses it to destroy Mat's online accounts and his Mac. It took Mat a week to restore his "digital" life and he is an IT professional. As he says in his article he didn't get back everything. Some things were lost forever. So how would you do? How would you recover from the criminal activity of perverted, bored little genius' that have nothing better to do than mess up your life for fun. Or worst steal your identity and money.

Well, how does an encrypted network help someone with Mat's problem? First our network does not allow peer to peer communications. So criminals can't get to your PC through our network even if they have an account. The Port Defender Secure Network has secure online storage where you can keep both private and shared data. If Mat had listed a Port Defender Secure Network email account for all communications from his bank and other important accounts he would have received notices of the hackers activity. A Port Defender Secure Network email account can only be accessed by a network member. You must have a certificate and you must be logged in to view your email. And there are security scanners running in the background that detect and stop illegal activity. Finally our private, secure network is monitored by real people. People looking for new exploits.

A new Trojan man-in-the-middle attack. This malware takes control of a PC, any PC in a network. It fools the network into thinking that it is a router and pulls all network traffic through it. This way it can monitor and record all traffic. It can also alter traffic as it passes through.

That PC could be anywhere on your network. A neighbor on your wifi, Some PC in your company, or even a car parked down the street. The Port Defender Secure Network protects you from this Trojan. It encrypts ALL of your network traffic and it verifies both ends of your communications. A man-in-the-middle might change your data, but that would cause an encryption error that your PC would reject. We suggest that every PC connected to the Internet use Port Defender Secure Network software to prevent data theft and most importantly identity theft.

Here's a slide show demonstrating the weaknesses of wifi networks. Twelve things you should and should not do to protect yourself on a wifi network. It doesn't matter if you're at home or on a public wifi you are a risk.

Even if you are an Internet Guru and you implement all of these suggestions you are still at risk. Why not save time and trouble? The Port Defender Secure Network will protect you from all of these issues and all you have to do is install a small program on your PC.