phishing emails: Are Your Employees Putting Your Company at Risk? Find Out!
- 05/17/18 08:08 AM
Even if you have the best security on your computer network, you might have noticed that you still seem to get hacked…or worse. Ask Equifax. Why is this happening? It’s probably because a member of your staff has made it easy for cyber criminals to get inside. It’s really important that you find out who this person is, and keep in mind…it might be more than just one. And it may not even involve security technology. Part of the problem here, is that employees who “open the door” for these criminals probably don’t even realize they are doing it. These criminals are … (5 comments)
phishing emails: 10 Surefire Staff Security Awareness Techniques
- 01/18/18 07:33 AM
Think about how great this would be: Imagine that all of your company data is safe from hackers. Your hardware is totally safe and secure. You have IT specialists at your disposal at all times and have a constant flow of cash to pay them. Unfortunately, this is a fantasy for most of us. No matter how secure we think our network is or how much we pay our IT people, there is always a chance for a data breach. Does this mean we should stop the fight, though? No way. Instead of throwing in the towel, it’s very important that you start … (8 comments)
phishing emails: Phishing is Getting Fishier
- 05/02/17 04:50 AM
If you are like most of us, you have undoubtedly received an email that has asked you to click on a link. Did you click it? If you did, you are like 99% of internet users because clicking links in normal. But in some situations you may have found that the link took you to a new or maybe spoofed website where you might be asked to log in. If you ever did this, you may have been the victim of a likely phishing attack, and these attacks are getting fishier all of the time. A What? Phish? Fish? It’s called a phishing … (5 comments)
phishing emails: Your ransomware profile: passwords, profiles and protection
- 08/04/16 11:56 PM
If your computer password contains the name of your dog, your favorite vacation spot, and an easy-to-remember numerical sequence, then you are breaking some basic rules of password safety. Even though “BusterBermuda789” might seem impenetrable to you, this is a password security experts say is vulnerable. Here are five things to know about passwords: A long, strong password goes a long way in helping prevent hacking. Every account should have a different password. A hacker’s password-cracking software can easily expose any password composed of an actual word or proper name, or keyboard sequences. (i.e. Mike123) Passwords should be a jumbled mix of … (2 comments)
phishing emails: Beware of Apple ID Phishing Scams
- 10/08/15 12:02 AM
You may have been scammed after you responded to an e-mail that appears it came from Apple. When hackers send e-mails that appear to come from a legitimate company like Apple (or Google, Microsoft, PayPal, etc.), with the objective of tricking the recipient into typing in passwords, usernames, credit card information and other sensitive data, this is called phishing. Many phishing scams are in circulation, including the Apple one. Hackers know that tons of people have Apple accounts. So if they robotically send 10,000 phishing e-mails to random e-mail addresses, they know that they’ll reach a lot of Apple account holders. And … (2 comments)
phishing emails: How your Brain is affected by Phishing Scams
- 02/09/15 09:06 PM
A recent study says that people are more mindful of online safety issues than what experts had previously believed. An article on phys.org says that Nitesh Saxena, PhD, wanted to know what goes on in users’ brains when they come upon malicious websites or malware warnings. Saxena points out that past studies indicated that users’ minds are pretty much blank when it comes to malware signs. Saxena and colleagues used brain imaging (functional MRI) for their study. Study subjects were asked to tell the authentic login pages of popular websites from phony replications. A second task for them was to differentiate … (3 comments)
phishing emails: 6 Ways to remove Junk mail forever
- 06/23/14 11:01 PM
If you’re sick of junk mail, stop putting off putting a stop to it, because you can actually make a difference by implementing the following 6 strategies. Though you won’t be able to completely eliminate junk mail, the following approaches will considerably de-clutter your mail box.
Get off marketing lists. This is done by having the Direct Marketing Association contact direct mail companies and instruct them to stop sending you mail. Go to DMACHOICE.org to get started and free yourself of mail offerings from magazines, catalogues and credit card companies, to name a few. To stop credit card offers only, … (3 comments)
phishing emails: 10 Ways to protect your Gmail Account
- 06/05/14 10:40 PM
Protecting your Gmail account means you must activate some tools that Google offers, and you must increase your scam savvy intelligence in order yto spot phishing scams. If you do both, you can have a very well-protected Gmail account.
#1. Google 2 Step Verification. This is the Holy Grail of account security. Not really, but it’s the best they have available. With 2 Step you get a onetime log in code to a secondary device like a mobile phone via text or the “Google Authenticator” app. I like text best. This will surely protect your Gmail account because a hacker … (6 comments)
Even if you have the best security on your computer network, you might have noticed that you still seem to get hacked…or worse. Ask Equifax. Why is this happening? It’s probably because a member of your staff has made it easy for cyber criminals to get inside. It’s really important that you find out who this person is, and keep in mind…it might be more than just one. And it may not even involve security technology.
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