Attention! There is yet another fake email series floating around the murky waters of cybersecurity. It feels like every day there’s a new reason to worry about what’s made its way into your mailbox. You’d think that by now there would be some foolproof method of stopping phony messages from getting out.
Quick Tip: Type website names directly into your browser for any “phishy” offer delivered by email. That way you do not give away your log in information or download a virus.
Why: A phishing email is a bogus email carefully designed to look like a legitimate request (or attached file) from a site you trust in an effort to get you to willingly give up your login information to a particular web site or to click and download a virus.
As technology has progressed, so have the capabilities of keeping buildings secure through surveillance cameras. Surveillance cameras are critical to monitoring a building’s premises in real-time.
Adding an extra layer of security will enhance the safety of your staff and clients.
Online shopping has become a multibillion-dollar revenue stream and is predicted to grow steadily to $370 billion in 2017. Consequently, identity theft is on the rise and online shoppers are easy targets! Last year alone, 17.6 million U.S. residents were victims of identity theft.
That’s what my dad used to say whenever I forgot to lock the front door, reflects Sr. IT Consultant, Mike Oster. As if he had some sort of insight into the low crime rate of Kansas. Well, now I’m going to say it to you: “We don’t live in Kansas, ya know.
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Quick Tip: To make it easier to remember your password, use a phrase and insert letters and numbers into it, like: 1!u>R0ck&R0!! (Translation: Iluvrock&roll)
Why: Hackers can try millions of possible password combinations per second using powerful brute-force-attack software that is readily available online.
Email is the single most effective way cybercrime scammers gain access to your bank account, credit cards and identity—whether it’s opening a virus-infected attachment or succumbing to a phishing scam where you unwittingly reveal your username, password and/or credit card information.
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IT Radix Red Alert: Beware of a new con using a convincing email re: wire transfer
We’ve had a few clients targeted by a new email scam recently and felt it important to bring to your attention...
It is an email scam or con involving wire transfers.
