When you think of the Dark Web, you might picture a big spiderweb filled with illegal substances, counterfeit bills, and stolen credit cards. But did you know not everything on the Dark Web is nefarious? So then what exactly is the Dark Web, and why is it associated with your personal information? Find out in …
Our saga continues with the middle stage of a breach’s lifecycle… The middle of a breach’s lifecycle takes place once a company has identified and contained the breach. In this week’s Micro Training, we cover some steps that can be taken to help mitigate overall damages.
What makes social media such an attractive target for cybercriminals anyway? With our social media feeds feeling like “familiar surroundings,” we are more easily lulled into an “error-prone mindset” that scammers love to leverage in order to capture our PII, our money and whatever else isn’t nailed down.
Romance Scams are yet another area in which cybercriminals are leveraging our strongest emotions to cultivate an “error-prone mindset” leaving broken hearts and broken passwords in their wake. We’ll look at some of the most common and recent iterations of the romance scam and how to cultivate the awareness it takes to beat them.
Cybercriminals are targeting the booming cryptocurrency market to make a killing off of human error. In this week’s micro training we’re taking a look at the how, when, and where of these latest scams and offering some tips on keeping yourself, your contacts, and your crypto-wallet safe.
An insider threat is when an individual with authorized access for an organization, misuses their access in a way that harms the organization. As the name implies, these threats come from within. In this week’s micro training we’ll look at Unintentional Insider Threats, which are actions that may harm an organization that are NOT planned …
The SLAM Method is a phish-catching mnemonic device that helps you break apart and analyze the validity of every email that slides into your inbox. In this week’s Micro Training, we’re reviewing the letter “M,” which stands for message. As the final letter in the SLAM Method, messages are a scammer’s greatest asset when …
The SLAM Method is a phish-catching mnemonic device that helps you break apart and analyze the validity of every email that slides into your inbox. In this week’s Micro Training, we’re reviewing the letter “A,” which stands for attachments. Similar to links, attachments are a convincing phishing device that, when clicked on, can lead …
