Brandon Anderson

Most everyone now is aware that malware, viruses and spyware are a problem. Some of us know that these viruses and spyware can take control of our computers, phones, and electronic devices, if the hacker so wishes to. Viruses and spyware are programs, just as if you installed a program off the internet or a CD. Have you every thought of that little webcam sitting on top of your computer or on your laptop? That’s right. It can also be controlled by whoever so chooses, should they have the knowledge and need to do to.

There are various ways to protect yourself from this, first is by using software. Like anti-spyware, anti-malware, and anti-virus, but those are not definitive protection against hackers using your webcam for their own perverted web games. No.

When it comes to immediate privacy concerns such as unauthorized uses of a webcam. You only have two options really. Unplug it, pry it off your laptop or monitor, or the more practical way: cover it up! You can use whatever you got, tape, a band aid (a bit tacky though), a piece of cardboard, or even a CCIPO business card! (as seen below) Whenever it comes to personal online security DEFINATE and HARDWARE solutions such as this are the only options. Programs and software alone WILL NOT protect you.

Some people may think. Well that’s only if I got something to hide, right? No way. It’s been known to be done by online sexual predators, people attempting to frame / blackmail you, such as taking secret photos in bedrooms and sending them to your friends or posting them online, etc.

^ CCIPO Business Card covering Macbook webcam.

Twitter was the target of a DNS exploit and defaced with the below image at around 10:o0 pm today, and is now currently offline. Below is an image of the twitter.com website hacked supposedly by the “Iranian Cyber Army.”

[UPDATE]: Twitter.com was down for a period of time and is now back up. It is suggested if use the same passwords on other websites you should change them now. It has also been found that it was a DNS exploit compromise.

- Brandon Anderson

Vancouver, British Columbia – May 36, 2009 – CCIPO (Cybercrime Investigations and Prevention Organization) launches, and “opens for business”. CCIPO has been under stategic development over the past months, and after the finishing touches have been finally made CCIPO, is now open.

CCIPO has partnerships with various companies and organizations to help widen our area of protection, we work with other organizations with similar objectives as ourselves to form new strategies and methods for responsive cybercrime investigations and prevention.

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Press Contacts:

Brandon Anderson
President and CEO

brandon@ccipo.org
1-877-701-4749, extension. 6

Have you ever been infected with malware/virus? Well if your using Windows as your operating system you most likely have, even if you don’t know it. Typically these days, anti-virus wont save you, and you will most likely end up having to format and re-instal windows. But I have put together a list of anti-virus packages that might be able to help, in some cases – not all of them though. Do you have Norton on your computer right now? Well if you do, here are a few steps. Un-install Norton – place the Installation CD in the box it came in – and now for the crucial step! Take that box, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, destroy it, do whatever is necessary. Just make sure it is no longer usable, or in your possession. Okay, yes – I’ve had some issues with Norton, and Im not a fan of it.

Ad-Aware – Ad-Aware is developed by Lavasoft, and I have worked with some of their employee’s – Ad-Aware is a must.

AVG – AVG is a very user friendly anti-virus application that does not take up that many resources. Another must for the average user. AVG should be used with Ad-Aware to provide stronger protection.

Blink – Blink from Eeye Software is Free however extremely powerful and easy to use. Blink is used by many corporations & large companies. Blink should be used on its own and not with any other Anti-Virus packages.

- Brandon Anderson