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Working for your family’s safety isn’t something any responsible parents want to bungle. You’ll want your home to be as secure as can be. To help you, we put together this piece covering monitored alarm systems in addition to other vital pointers to make your life easier.

Setting up ADT monitored alarms and home security systems is one of the most necessary steps to keep your home safe. So, you ask, do all solutions provide similar security? Simply put, no - as the scale of the security mandated increases, you’ll find that you must install more control pads, sensors, cameras, even alarms. The point of this is to eradicate any weak spots that might, if unchecked, mar the security of your house.

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So far, so obvious; now, it’s time to look at lighting, which can be an effective preventative on its own and a crucial component in a good security system. Ask yourself, would an intruder rather break in through the shadows or while brightly-lit? You know the answer. Keep in mind that, far from just granting you this chance to spot criminals approaching, they augment any video surveillance. And if you throw motion detectors into the mix, results are even better. This is scarcely all that the ADT security services can help with, it goes without saying. We expect you are already aware of personal emergency wristbands or necklaces for old and infirm relations, and as you should be looking at a system to safeguard your relations it’s definitely worth investigating them.

The average criminal prefers uninhabited homes - and so, for while you’re on trips, we suggest some straightforward pointers. The usual indicator is external - a growing pile of ignored mail. A neighbor might bring it in if you ask. You can also connect exterior lighting and/or sprinklers up to a timer. It may just be skin-deep but it’s enough to make most criminals steer clear.

Ignore those who try to tell you that nothing can go wrong with security systems. It’s possible to improve your safety, however. Each new service will help safeguard your loved ones better, permitting you to sleep easy.

Standing out at a Career Fair can make a difference in your search. Career Faires are starting to pick up, and a major job search company is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a SF Bay Area Career Faire in January, 10 companies as showing up, and Dice has 82 career faires scheduled for 2010 across the US.

How do you compete at a Career Faire? The competition can be considerable, but you can help yourself stick out from the herd with early planning. At AA-Careers, we have a simple six-step process to prepare. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, investigate the organizations that are going and pick your objectives. Use the internet to check out the organizations that are there before you even decide to go. Go to their internet sites and see if they have their openings posted. Pick a sane number to target, and get ready to spend an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than 8 in a day, and five or six is a much more reasonable target. For each hiring organization, you want to know: key product lines, recent news, and executive names. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You will end up with with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job openings on the web, read them to see what the hiring department is looking for. Create a mapping of your achievements and skills to the demands of the job. Make the language match. If the hiring company calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The accomplishments should be written in the style of the hiring company.

Third, create a ‘brief sales pitch’ for each likely company/job combination. Write down a sixty second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat verbally showing why you are a good prospect for that position. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the company at the job kiosk.

Fourth, modify your resume for each opportunity. The objective on your resume should exactly match the job you’re aiming for. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the accomplishments and skills that most clearly match the job requirements. Especially at a Career Fair, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be a no-brainer to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress well and be properly groomed. Don’t over do-it (this isn’t a date!) and don’t underdress (no jeans or t-shirts, no matter how much you paid for them). Avoid strong cologne or perfume.

Finally, rehearse your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each position - bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a distinctly marked folder. Keep them in a light briefcase or folio.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

Just a few years ago, if you were online, you might have had just a single password to remember for your email address. Nowadays though it’s not exceptional to have 10 or 20 passwords created for countless internet services you’ve joined. And you can guess what happens : Many people are inclined to use the same password again and again. Some people may not think their Facebook member account as being majorly vital, but it is if you’re utilising the very same password as you are for your bank account. For sure, it’s handy to only have to remember just one password, but what happens if an individual gets their mitts on that single password? You guessed it, they in theory have their mitts on all of your accounts that share that same password. If you think they can’t know what other services you’ve joined, it isn’t required. They can run programs which examine literally tens of thousands of online services and try to match your username/password pair that they already have.

It’s a problem, but it’s easily remedied. In actual fact, it’s not necessary to remember each and every username/password. Let your browser do it. Be it your Gmail login or Email password. Ask your browser to store each account name/password, and then setup a master password just in case a person else gets physical access to your computer. Physical access to your computer will still require the knowledge of the master password to gain access to all the other passwords. Or to put it another way, you can sign up to dozens of online services, and only need to remember one password : your master password for your web browser.

Regarding passwords themselves, make them long and random, for example 8JJJfrfrt65K which is an assortment of lower and upper case characters and numbers. Since it’s not required to remember them yourself, be as obscure as you like. A word of warning : don’t use normal phrases as your password, as these are elementary to discover for 3rd parties.

A new form of attack on Windows computers allows a hacker to take control of your computer when a particular graphic is displayed. There is no patch available from Microsoft as of Jan. 2, 2006, but there are steps that can reduce the computer’s vulnerability.

The WMF Flaw affects all browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera and many others.

Millions of computers have been infected.

The flaw is in how Windows handles a graphic format - Windows Meta File - and lets a hacker install a “backdoor” that downloads adware, spyware and Trojan Horses on a compromised computer. The flaw has been rated “Extremely Critical” - the highest level.

You don’t have to click on a link, open an attachment or take any other action, just be able to view the graphic on a web page, in an email or even an Instant Message.

Even “safe sites” such as WebMD can be a carrier, since ad banners that are not hosted at WebMD may inadvertently contain an infected graphic.

According to the Washington Post (12-28-05), “it is hard to find a recent Windows threat as potentially dangerous as this one — the problem may be more dire than initial reports suggested … According to an advisory published by Microsoft late Wednesday, the flaw is present in every Windows version dating back to Windows 98…“, even fully updated systems.

A free illustrated guide to reducing vulnerability to this attack is available at www.HelpProtectMyComputer.com/WMFflaw.html.

The new fully illustrated eBook, “Help! Something’s Got Hold of My Computer and It Won’t Let Go!” contains tools, fixes and education to prevent Phishing, Pharming and many other forms of attacks on PCs and is available at www.HelpProtectMyComputer.com. A free PC Security newsletter, The Blinking Cursor, is also available at the site.

The Internet is important to us all. You can help by forwarding this article to the people you care about and, if you are employed, bringing it to the attention of your Information Technology staff, because they may be overwhelmed by this massive attack.

© Steve Freedman, Archer Strategic Alliances, 2005 All Rights Reserved

Steve Freedman
Author of “Help! Something’s Got Hold of My Computer and It Won’t Let Go!”
A PC Security eBook for Newbies, Skilled Users and Wizards
http://www.HelpProtectMyComputer.com

Archer Strategic Alliances
http://www.WebPagesThatWork.com