Divorce or Business Breakup?
Written by Glenn Dinetz Monday, 18 April 2011 00:00
Here are the immediate next steps you have to take to secure your technological privacy:
- Secure your most important emails, received and sent on another form of digital media (thumb-drive, CD, Cloud drive, etc.)
- Change the user name and password on all of your credit cards, bank accounts, brokerage accounts and retirement accounts. If jointly owned, check with your attorney first.
- If you operate a wireless (WIFI) network in your home make sure you do the following:
- If the name of the network easily identifies you (you used your address or family name) change it. Change your WEP Password as well. Enable WPA2 encryption and disable the broadcast feature.
- Remember to write all of your changes down and keep it in a safe place
- This needs to be done especially in high-profile breakups. In domestic matters, once a spouse has moved out of the residence, these changes should be made
- In any and all matters, you should instruct your children not to give out WIFI passwords. (It never ceases to amaze us that in many cases, we find the entire neighborhood is able to connect to a ‘secure’ network.)
- Mobile Devices: This is where you can have the most problems. For those of you using the iPhones, Blackberry’s and Androids as well as iPads, iPods and tablets, you can be tracked! Turn off the location finder in the settings of your device when you are not using it.
- For Apple device users especially, make sure your MobileMe account is secure. We have found third parties setting up and paying for fictitious MobileMe Accounts and using the “find my iPad” feature to track individuals
- Your vehicle: GPS trackers are cheap these days. If your car is parked in a public place, it’s fair game for a tracking device. These work much the same way as your cell phone does. And, unless the NSA is tracking you, these devices have only a three -day battery life and are about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Check under your bumpers and in the wheel wells for anything suspicious. In some domestic cases where one spouse knows the habit of the other, the GPS device is placed right in the car in a messy console department or in the side pockets of luxury cars.
If you think you’ve been further compromised, give us a call. We have some equipment you don’t have and experience in looking in ‘all the wrong places'.
| Next > |
|---|
