Cyber Security 101: How Much Do You Really Know?

• April 21st, 2020
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• Data Protection, Online Safety, PC security, Uncategorized

Cyberattacks. We hear about them everywhere – from your neighbor whose son downloaded a video game that crashed his computer, to your sister mistakenly clicking a bad link that tricked her into buying shoes she will never get, and even bigger ones, like hackers stealing Target’s entire customer database.

Governments’ Coronavirus Financial Relief Targeted by Cybercriminals

• April 13th, 2020
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• anti-phishing, Data Privacy, Data Protection, identity theft, Online Privacy, Uncategorized

“Scammers are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to steal your money, your personal information, or both.” FBI Public Service Announcement, March 2020.

As we are all much too aware, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused massive – and very rapid – economic, political, and societal upheaval. While it has forced lay-offs and shut down entire industries from main street to the mall and beyond, one area that hasn’t seen a slowdown is cybercrime. 

3 Ways to Secure Yourself From Common Web Attacks

• March 31st, 2020
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• anti-phishing, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Online Privacy, Online Safety, PC security, Uncategorized

With the increase in largely-publicized security breaches to corporate giants such as Google, Facebook, and Target, terms such as “phishing” and “ransomware” have been growing in popularity. You may know them as the fishy emails from seemingly legitimate companies telling you something is wrong with your account and urging you to insert your credentials.

Top 10 Brand Phishing Companies

• March 23rd, 2020
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• anti-phishing, Data Protection, Online Safety, Uncategorized

By 2020, you’ve probably already experienced getting an email from a well-known company, such as Apple or Facebook, letting you know that your account has some issues with it or a payment confirmation of some sort (that you haven’t made). The email address it was sent from looks just like the company’s email, the interface of the message matches previous emails from the company, and the company website in the link looks real as well.

Coronavirus: New Phishing Campaigns Exploit the Global Panic

• March 15th, 2020
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• anti-phishing, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Online Privacy, Online Safety, PC security, remote work, Uncategorized

Unless you’ve been in complete lack of contact with the world, you’ve probably heard of the coronavirus pandemic going around. With widespread travel bans, quarantines, and school and workplace shutdowns, the growing panic can be felt, as people are clearing out supermarket aisles of sanitary goods and take all necessary precautions to not catch the deadly virus.