Can you imagine the headache if some hacker found out your email password or your Facebook credentials? Now imagine how much more harmful it could be if he had access to your banking information. Of course, you would never give over this information to a stranger, but what if they sent you an email pretending they were your bank?
Summertime is coming up. Taking a break from work or school? Don’t take a break from online safety when it’s about your PC and your mobile device! You’ll soon break your usual routines in favor of spending time in the sunshine with family and friends. Take the time to wrap your head around these best practices for safe internet use and secure your PC, tablets and phones for you and your family.
Family Safety Week (April 23-27) is just around the corner. The date is always a timely moment to promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Take a look at some topics below to inspire you this week – and, why not, always – and help keeping you and your family safe online. Read more…
Wouldn’t you freak out if you checked your bank account and saw a $0 balance? Identity theft isn’t too rare of an occurrence these days, yet we often fall into the trap of thinking that it’ll always happen to “someone else”. Unfortunately, we are all somebody else’s “someone else”, which means identity theft can happen to you.
On the surface, cyberattacks to unprotected home users may not appear to be lucrative for hackers, especially if you are only looking at a single instance. Attackers targeting individuals tend to keep their ransom relatively low (if compared to companies,) hoping to entice victims to pay up quickly, rather than trying to thwart the attack.
