Similar domains and website cloning as types of phishing are on the rise! Let’s say your bank is named ABC Bank and Trust. The website domain is www.abcbankandtrust.com (http://www.abcbankandtrust.com). However you accidentally type abcbankandttrust or abcbbankandtrust. The website loads though and looks almost exactly like abcbankandtrust.com (http://abcbankandtrust.com). It’s so similar you don’t recognize…
Common Sense Internet Safety Lesson 5 Malware has been sent for a LONG time in attachments Most Spam or AntiVirus software programs don’t even allow .exe files to make it even into your inbox as an attachment anymore. PDF files, Microsoft Word Docs, and others can also have malware. Since people send those…
Common Sense Internet Safety #1 Ok, so you’ve changed your passwords and enabled 2FA… Is there anything else I should do? Of course! Have common sense in Internet Safety! Some things are not common knowledge, so what is common sense on the internet? We’re going to take several posts to go through a list…
If you’re protecting a castle, do you just require a secret password to get into it? NO, you also have a moat with a drawbridge. Your castle should include your social media, email and financial accounts (bank and investment). These are sites that people can either directly obtain your money or use for identity theft.…
Digital risk is the greatest threat to the modern business That was the theme at the opening session of the 2019 RSA Conference in San Franscisco. In today’s hyper-connected business economy, information centric cyber-risk, introduced internally and externally, to a business introduces the greatest risk of loss and disruption. In 2018 these risks…
Previously I discussed that *many* people had followed a link in an email that included a username and a real password (credentials) because they thought the sender had access to their account. I mentioned that our credentials unfortunately have been leaked from numerous breaches. I said that just because they have your credentials doesn’t mean…