If you are not using cloud services for file sharing, email, shared calendars and shared document editing, you probably aren’t making the most of your team. Todd takes to the ice again, just watch he doesn’t slash you in the shins if your are committing the latest offence to rankle him – desktop email!

Links:
Dropbox
Gmail
Google Docs
Google Calendar

Sometimes you just gotta hit the delete key!

That is what I did today, I  dumped the my entire inbox into the Trash of my Google Mail account.

Boy, what a relief and a huge amount of stress taken is now gone.  Nothing like having a tonne of email first thing in the day to get the stress level up.

Have you declared email bankruptcy?

How did you feel the next time you opened your email to see nothing in your inbox?

Technology came in the form of computers.

After a few hard drive or computer crashes where all was lost, I got petrified and backed up everything.

Technology moved to the cloud.

Email, calendars, spreadsheets and documents, photos and videos are available to me all the time like magic on any computer or handheld device.  I love it!

I got lazy – and start trusting the gatekeepers of my data to back it up and provide limitless free access to MY STUFF.

I realized, I’M OUT OF MY MIND! after reading @CC_Chapman’s tweet.

Regularly backing up MY CRITICAL STUFF to a hard drive and using an online service like Backupify (2 Gig free backup & paid accounts for more) to back up my stuff online I have to take responsibility for looking after MY STUFF.  No use whining about those big bad companies like Google limiting access to my stuff – they have terms of service, they are the gatekeepers to MY STUFF when I use their services.  If I violate the terms of service (based on their interpretation of my actions) they can shut me down.  I agree to that in the TOS.

Secondly, I’m back to changing my password regularly… got lazy there too.  It would be far worse for someone to hack into my email and change my password on me gaining access to my valuable data.  That news about Googles Gaia security system being hacked in January…. it got me back into prudent mode.

I’m back to being the gatekeeper of MY STUFF.

How about you?  Are you taking action to safeguard YOUR STUFF?

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Technology came in the form of computers.

After a few hard drive or computer crashes where all was lost, I got petrified and backed up everything.

Technology moved to the cloud.

Email, calendars, spreadsheets and documents, photos and videos are available to me all the time like magic on any computer or handheld device.  I love it!

I got lazy – and start trusting the gatekeepers of my data to back it up and provide limitless free access to MY STUFF.

I realized, I’M OUT OF MY MIND! after reading @CC_Chapman’s tweet.

Regularly backing up MY CRITICAL STUFF to a hard drive and using an online service like Backupify (2 Gig free backup & paid accounts for more) to back up my stuff online I have to take responsibility for looking after MY STUFF.  No use whining about those big bad companies like Google limiting access to my stuff – they have terms of service, they are the gatekeepers to MY STUFF when I use their services.  If I violate the terms of service (based on their interpretation of my actions) they can shut me down.  I agree to that in the TOS.

Secondly, I’m back to changing my password regularly… got lazy there too.  It would be far worse for someone to hack into my email and change my password on me gaining access to my valuable data.  That news about Googles Gaia security system being hacked in January…. it got me back into prudent mode.

I’m back to being the gatekeeper of MY STUFF.

How about you?  Are you taking action to safeguard YOUR STUFF?

When you click on the link, then you see the familiar Google Gmail Welcome page. 

Except that this is not the regular Google page.  If you look up at the address field, you will find the URL is on the domain, .

Checking WhoIs for this page you will find that the administrative contact is the following person.

Undoubtedly if I had keyed in my Gmail username and password, that gentleman would have had access to my Gmail account and could do whatever he wished with it.  Needless to say I immediately changed the password, in case he had already been there.

This is a particularly difficult one to spot, so it is important to be extra vigilant.  Google has some good information about Messages asking for personal information.  It also provides more detailed information about Suspicious results and strange behavior: Phishing attacks in other words.

You can forward such phishing Gmail messages to phishing@google.com and can send the Phishing URL to the Google Phishing team using their Phishing Report.  Google also provides a link to Stopbadware.org, where you can learn more about malware that can infect your computer.

Some phishing attacks are not too difficult to spot, often including spelling mistakes and somewhat curious links.  This particular current Gmail phishing incident is highly professional and the only clue is that URL address when you click on the apparent Google link. 

Please spread the word rapidly.  If you are on Twitter, then please ReTweet the message below.

Undoubtedly many people will be taken in.

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