Spring Cleaning: Dust with Information
Are you glad for the arrival of spring? If you’re like me, spring cleaning is on your mind when the weather finally gets nice. Cluttered closets, jammed garages, plentiful attics stuffed with items that have not seen daylight in years...
10 Tips for Keeping Your Finances Safe Online
Are you worried about conducting business online? It’s a valid concern. Cyberattacks, hacks, and breaches fill the headlines. Here are 10 quick tips you can use to keep your finances safe while online: Create yourself – As soon as you...
Do You Enjoy Tax Time?
Do you enjoy tax time? The cybercriminals do! Tax season is upon us, and it’s a very healthy time of year for cybercriminals, who continue to target all industries with W2 phishing email scams. They use legitimate-looking emails asking for...
Romance Scams: A Billion-dollar Industry
Valentine’s day may have already passed, but romance scams are still trendy. Cybercriminals and groups are turning up the heat on their victims. What is romance scam? Romance scams are plain old fashioned extortion fraud with a new twist –...
Moving Beyond the ‘S’: HTTPS
We need to move beyond the S. Specifically, the “S” at the end of HTTPS in our browser bar. It’s 2018, and most of us, myself included, still often validate a website’s authenticity based on whether or not a website...
New Year, New Security Strategy
The Christmas stockings are stuffed away, and the tree has been taken down; Christmas is officially behind us. 2018 is going to be great! You WILL keep those resolutions. One resolution I want you to have is to increase your...
Last-Minute Online Shopping Safety
Are you stressed, tired, and busy? You are not alone! Everyone is busy this time of year, and the last thing you need is the added stress of fraud this Christmas season. If you are like the rest of us,...
Online Jobs: Not Always What You Think
Who wants to earn some extra money this holiday season? Your diva daughter wants designer shoes. A shiny new game console for George would pair well with that new ultra large, curved, UHD TV. The electronics store gives package deals,...
Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats
Food, water and shelter often come to mind as the critical elements of survival. They are! Personally, I would like to add coffee to this list. But my love of coffee, cannot surpass my need for water, no matter how...
The Internet Wants You – Consider a Career in Cybersecurity
Ask anyone if they have seen the CBS hit show CSI, and the response is almost always a definite, “YES!” CSI was a game changer for many young people, including myself. It opened the door to DNA evidence, crime scene...