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Passwords:
Scams:
- Common Phishing Emails: Learn the signs
Presents reader with several examples of recent phishing scams. These scams are highly sophisticated and may look very similar to a real email. However, it is important that we look carefully at the small clues that point to a scam. These include a generic opening line, a spoofed email (like google.c0m or amaz0n), A sense of urgency for you to enter in your credit card or personal information (24 hour time limit). Take a look at these examples to familiarize yourself with what a phishing scam you receive may look like.
- Check if your email has been hacked before: Have I Been Pwned
- Checks if your email and password has been compromised in any data breaches or in any pastes (meaning someone has pasted your information onto a website on the dark web for other hackers to use). Type in your email (this is a very secure website) and it will display if your have been compromised in the past. Make it routine to do this every week, sign up to be notified if you are compromised (Click Notify Me on the top bar), and make sure you immediately change your passwords immediately after you see that you have been breached or that a breach has been added to your list.
Privacy, Tracking:
Viruses, Malware Protection
- Ransomware Protection
- Virus Total: Check if there are viruses in your file
Type in a link or upload a file and it will scan it against 64-100 security programs for malicious bugs or programs. You have to download the file first, but typically, a lot of malicious files actually run their “bad code” when the user first clicks to open the program: make sure you have dragged it into virus total first. A good file/link would have all green checks and a few gray ones (gray is not bad, just means that checker timed out which is normal).
- Web of Trust: Chrome Extension
- Color codes websites that are ranked in your Google Search based on safety and if malware was detected
Click “Add to Chrome” for Chrome extension or “Add to Firefox” for the later. Extension that checks if the websites that come up on a Google search are safe or contain malicious software. Shows a green circle (meaning safe site), red circle (meaning unsafe), or gray (suspicious site). This does not interfere with work you are doing on the computer.
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