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Cybercrime is on the rise. Your Money and Your Life: Gone in Sixty Seconds Flat! "How?", you ask. OK, let me elaborate on a few of the many ways cybercriminals steal your money, and, literally, your life and they can do so in second

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

s, not minutes, or hours.

You may not be the only one using your computer. Cybercriminals known as hackers may be using your computers and you may not even know it. Would you ever know if your computer were taken over and b

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

eing used by a hacker? Not likely. When a hacker hijacks a computer, the victim rarely knows. A computer that has been hijacked is one that is completely taken over by a hacker, or a group of hackers, to be used for their own purpos

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

es. The idea is that the real owner of the computer never knows their system has been hijacked, so the hackers can secretly use it whenever and however they want.

Personal information is now so readily available that a to

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

tal stranger with nothing more than an online connection and a credit card could discover everything there is to know about you. He or she could compile a complete dossier on you, your family members, friends, work associates, or bu

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

siness rivals without any special investigative training.

Fears about identity theft are not limited to spyware or to records stolen from corporate databases. As it turns out, the neighbor next door can be just as big a co

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ncern. "Definitely, using the Internet to spy on average citizens is our next big social problem," said Avivah Litan, security analyst for identity-theft issues at the research firm Gartner.

One of the latest hacking trend

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

s is called "Drive-by Hacking". Popular wireless Internet access points have now become a major target for hackers. Hackers simply take their laptop computers in their cars and drive through business parks or residential neighborho

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ods remotely scanning for open wireless networks. This is the latest version of the drive-by garage door remote theft where criminal would use universal remote controls to open garage doors without arousing the suspicions of neighbo

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

rs, police, or home security companies.

The new trend recently discovered: online hazards in hotels. Authorities are becoming alarmed at the number of traveler-victims who have reported that their personal

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

or financial information was stolen after they had used a computer in a hotel's business center. It seems like the criminal use keylogging software to record the victim's key strokes. See related Story: ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

m>ABC News Video: Online Hazards in Hotels.

With cybercriminals always on the move and coming up with new and creative moves t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

o steal people's money, it would be wise to educate ourselves about the attacks, risks, and threats they perpetrate. Learn all you can, and then take evasive and preventative action. Get the strongest protection you can get that is

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

best suited to your needs. The best defenses are a combination of education and managed protection service. Off-the-shelve individual or combined anti-spyware, antivirus, and anti-spam software programs may not be sufficient protect

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ion, because hackers seem to stay one step of these programs. The popular off-the-shelf products offer you no personalized support. If you want help, you'll pay for it over and over again! If you need a virus removed with these chea

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

p programs, you'll pay for it. You may get technical support from your PC manufacturer for security problems, but in most cases, you probably will not. Even if you do, it will likely be for a fee, and one that repeats itself should

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

you need additional help down the road.

To protect yourself, you need an Internet security team of experts making sure that you, your family, and your business computer are always safe and secure. The best protection you can have i

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

n today's rapidly changing world of cyber-attacks is to have expert support for all your Internet security needs that will provide technical support without any hassles and without charging you extra fees. It will become even more c

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ritical than it is today as time goes on. You need to find your own personal team of experts to rely on. If you ever have a security problem, you will want to have a trusted expert you can call for professional help, without any has

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

sles and extra costs!

Remember: When you say "No!" to hackers and spyware, everyone wins! When you don't, we all lose!

© MMVII, Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Internet Safety Advocate and Educator

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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