I bet one of the very first things you will do you when you check into your hotel on spring break vacation will be connecting to the local Wi-Fi network. You’ll choose the one with the hotel’s name or that most resembles it. Bingo! You assume your data is safe — but now cyber criminals are imitating the Wi-Fi at your hotel to steal your personal data. And they have new tricks to make it even tougher to spot.
April Fools’ Day is definitely the day of the year when everyone has their guard up. Hackers know that and tend to be extra active on April 1st. How? With the simplest maneuvers to trick users into clicking on links, opening poisoned attachments or even handing over their passwords in the mistaken belief that they’re logging into a legitimate website.
Have you backed up your data recently? Every day people lose huge amounts of valuable data because they fail to follow this one basic procedure. March is here, but have you ever heard of World Backup Day on the 31st? Because backing up your files is such a key responsibility to protect your PC, why not dedicate the whole month to reflection?
Modern medicine is overwhelmingly reactive rather than proactive. How expensive that model is! If everyone only got sick and then sought medical assistance, we could not afford the bill. The reasoning here is similar to why you change the oil in your car rather than wait to fix a blown engine. This is also why we try to vaccinate or inoculate against as many diseases as possible. Everyone knows the motto: “Prevention is better than cure.”
Don’t you love Valentine’s Day? So do most hackers! February 14 is just around the corner. If you are shocked by this revelation, you are a prime target for Valentine’s Day spam and phishing attacks as hackers hope to catch you with your guard down for this day of expressing how much you care for your loved ones.
