I find that hackers love to play on our emotions, in particular. They love to get us really scared, happy, sad or angry so that we are not thinking straight. If you come across someone asking you for your sensitive information, and they invoke a strong emotion out of you, [...]
Personal information of thousands of FedEx customers worldwide was exposed on the web due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage server which was carelessly NOT secured with a password. Many data breaches don’t involve sophisticated hackers – just a question of someone being careless. Despite all of the [...]
If a hacker reaches out to us pretending to be someone we know or disguises a fake website to look like a legitimate one, and we willfully give them our information, passwords, gift cards, money and so on, our technology will have a hard time protecting us. Regardless of the [...]
All cybercrime begins and ends with what the cybercriminal is targeting: your sensitive information. One of the best tips for cybersecurity awareness is to make sure you are aware of what information of yours is sensitive and remain especially careful with where you put it and who you allow to [...]
I just got an email from a very sincere sounding gentleman that wants to actually give me $5 million USD. He took the time to give me quite a bit of detail in his intro, let me share: "Hello Dear Friend, I am Col. Hussein Harmush, An Army officer from [...]