You’ve no doubt been advised to report any suspicious emails that land in your inbox to your company’s administrator or IT provider (that would be us) but how do you know if an email is a malicious phishing attempt or just spam from a legitimate company? Knowing the difference will help you determine if you need to alert us.
A phishing email is a bogus email that is carefully designed to look like a legitimate request from a legitimate business or organization. The goal of a phishing email is to get you to willingly give up your login information to a particular website or to click and download a virus.
How many times have you gone to print information from a webpage only to realize there’s not a “printer-friendly version”? You have two choices: You can just print the whole page with all the ads, special offers and other clutter OR you could copy and paste the information into a Word document and then clean it up.
Holiday Tip #3 – In this Season of Giving, Don’t Give the Criminals Your Money
With so many companies celebrating the season with festive holiday parties, it’s easy to get caught up in this gift card trap set up by ne’er do well criminals out there.
Holiday Tip #2 – Don’t Get Taken for a Ride – Unless it’s a Sleigh Ride
When ordering from e-commerce sites such as Amazon or eBay, you’ll want to check the product descriptions very carefully. Counterfeit goods have been known to make their way onto these sites.
Holiday Tip #1 – Merry Phishmas!
It may be the season of giving, but for cybercriminals, it’s the season of taking...taking advantage of unsuspecting victims. They know that millions of people will be ordering gifts from online retailers and they take advantage of that.
Have you heard of the Aero Shake? It’s a nifty feature that was introduced in Windows 7 and is available on all later versions of the operating system. If you’re the type of person who usually has multiple program windows open on your monitor at the same time, then you will find the Aero Shake very useful.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re just being paranoid about your smart home devices listening to your every word. Why? Because they are – all the time. But Amazon has announced a new feature that will allow you to erase the day’s conversations from your Alexa voice assistant.
Apple iPhones come with a useful safety feature that keeps your phone from being opened should it land in the hands of someone else. Unfortunately, that same feature keeps it from being used by anyone you willingly give it to should you decide to sell it, give it to a friend or family member or donate it to charity.
Phishing emails are bogus messages carefully designed to look like a legitimate message (or attached file) from a site or person you trust. Their goal is getting you to willingly give up your login info or unknowingly click a link to install a virus. The best of these emails look uncannily similar to their real-world counterparts, but there are ways to discern a phishing attempt from a legitimate email.
