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Articles tagged with: Cyber Security Awareness Month

Computer Viruses and Malware: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022

Most people who use computers have heard the terms “malware” and “computer viruses”, but what are they? Malware and computer viruses are usually used synonymously but while it’s true that all viruses are malware, not all malware is a computer virus. Malware, short for malicious software, refers to software that is made to be malicious. [ Read More ]

Multi-factor Authentication

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is sometimes referred to as two-factor authentication or 2FA. This is a security feature that requires you to present two types of credentials when logging in. These credentials can be something you know (a password for example), something you have (like a smartphone), or something you are (for example a fingerprint or [ Read More ]

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: Personal Awareness

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a great time to reflect on your habits and how you interact with technology over the past year. With this, answers to the following questions can help you focus on keeping your online identity and your data safe. Have you connected to any public Wi-Fi networks over the last year? While [ Read More ]

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: Physical Security

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 provides an opportunity to review a basic yet very important security measure: physical security of our technology and computers. Limiting and preventing physical access to the technology is key to preventing unauthorized access to our computers and data, whether it is personal or university owned. Some offices have barriers, such [ Read More ]

Password Safety

Passwords are keys to your online castle(s) such as: employer’s online resources, bank account, social media accounts, shopping sites, health records, and much more. Password safety is not something many people think about on a daily basis but passwords help keep your accounts secure and your digital identity safe. In this article, I explore best [ Read More ]

VPN: Not just for work anymore

As technology evolves and organizations adapt, our workplace environments have changed so that working remotely – outside the organization’s office space – is now more common and acceptable for both the employer and the employee. When you work from your office at the business’ headquarters, you usually have (hopefully!) IT staff and infrastructure who work [ Read More ]

Don’t Be Held Captive to Ransomware

“$5.9M ransomware attack on major agriculture group poses risk to US grain, pork, chicken supply” Fox Business Sept. 21, 2021 What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malicious attack where attackers encrypt a victim’s data. Ransom is then demanded in exchange for decryption. Hackers often target and threaten to sell or leak sensitive data [ Read More ]

Phight the Phish!

Cybersecurity Awareness Week 2: Phight the Phish! As we head into the second week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, we should take some time to be aware on how to Phight the Phish! Cyber criminals are coming up with new ways to “phish” for your information using browser redirect hijacks and Windows notifications. “Phishing,” in [ Read More ]

Using Social Media Safely

It is easy to ignore cyber security, to not take proactive steps and to think “That won’t happen to me.” Many people, however, have learned – after their accounts have been breached, data compromised and, even worse, their identity stolen – it is much easier to take steps to protect yourself before something happens than [ Read More ]

Securing Your Data

This is Cyber Security Month and the topic of many of our articles you’ll read throughout October will outline tools and techniques to protect against malicious programs and users. What are they after – what is their purpose? In addition to a user’s digital identity and the physical network infrastructure, the $150.4 billion a year [ Read More ]