Passwords have become an essential part of our daily lives. We use passwords for everything from social media accounts to online banking. With your banking and medical information available online, the need for secure passwords is more important than ever. Here are our top 5 password practices. Bonus Tips Following password best practices will help […]
The LastPass Data Breach
LastPass the popular password manager, has suffered yet another major breach. This has put customers’ online passwords at risk and endangered their data. In late December, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba acknowledged in a blog post that a security incident the company disclosed in August eventually led to an unauthorized party stealing customer account information and sensitive vault data. […]
Cybersecurity First
Cybersecurity starts with you. Every time you use the Internet, you face choices related to your security. Is that really your friend on Facebook asking you to add them again? Is that oddly worded email really from the CEO asking you to confirm your social security number? Is the “Strong Coffee” wireless network really the […]
Fight the Fish!
Phishing attacks have been around for a while, but they were responsible for 22% of all data breaches in 2020. While email is used in over 80% of phishing attempts, they can also use text messaging and phone calls. The methods crooks use continue to evolve, email attachments one day, disguised web links the next. […]
Beware of Covid-19 Vaccine phishing emails
On Friday December 18th, the US DOJ seized two domain names that were claimed to be the sites of companies developing treatments for Covid-19. The sites were really being used to collect personal information of visitors and then use them for further phishing and malware attacks. Don’t make the mistake of thinking there aren’t more […]
Holidays Bring the Worst Out in Cyber Scammers
We are in the peak of shipping scam season. Sent via email or text, the simple message that a delivery may not make it by Christmas is all that’s needed to get you invested enough to need to find out more, click links, provide credentials, etc. Any legitimate shipping notification will provide some details you […]
10 Holiday Cybersecurity Alert Tips
Happy Thanksgiving!It’s Holiday Season for the cyber crooks as well as all of us.But not the way you might think. They go into scam-overdrive mode.Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the busiest online shopping days and the bad guys are planning to get rich with your money. So, here are 10 Holiday Cybersecurity Alert Tips: […]
New Text Message Scams
Just like email scams, text message scams use current events to trick you in to responding and giving away your personal information. Text message scams ratchet up the urgency and scare tactics to fit the short message format and try to get you to respond without much thought. The latest text-based scam tied to current […]
Microsoft Warns of a Massive Covid-19 Excel Phishing Attack via email
The emails claim to be from ‘Johns Hopkins Center’ bearing “WHO COVID-19 SITUATION REPORT”. The attached Excel file, if opened, shows security warning show a graph of supposed coronavirus cases in the US. The file contains a malicious Excel 4.0 macro which downloads & runs NetSupport Manager remote administration tool (RAT). Microsoft has seen several […]
Don’t reuse passwords! (and other password guidelines)
Last week, 530,000 Zoom accounts and passwords were for sale on the dark web (5 for a penny). Investigators think that the accounts were not ‘hacked’ or stolen from Zoom or exposed by a vulnerability. Instead, the account list was likely created from an old data breach. This is called credential stuffing. The crooks take […]