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Privacy Tip #338 – Be Aware of Apps Infected with Malware

By Linn Foster Freedman on July 28, 2022
Posted in Privacy Tips

Like all technology, mobile apps can be infected with malicious code, or malware, which is intended to gain access to your mobile phone when you download the app. Although app stores try their best to not allow malicious apps to get into the store, monitor apps once they are included in the store, and delete…

Privacy Tip #310 – Gift Card Scams Rampant During the Holiday Season

By Linn Foster Freedman on December 9, 2021
Posted in Privacy Tips

Gift card scams continue to be one of the most frequently-reported scams to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to its recent Scam Alert entitled Scammers are tricking more people into buying gift cards, “40,000 people reported losing a whopping $148 million in gift cards to scammers during the first nine months of 2021.”…

Phishing, Vishing, and Smishing—Your Employees Need to Know the Newest Schemes

By Linn Foster Freedman on June 24, 2021
Posted in New + Now

New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to click on a link or attachment in the email to deploy malicious malware and ransomware.

Social engineering is when criminals conduct online search of…

NIST Recommends against SMS as Second Authentication Factor

By Richard Borden on August 4, 2016
Posted in Cybersecurity

On July 29, Paul Grassi, the Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) posted an unusual blog regarding the new draft NIST Special Publication 800-63-3: Digital Authentication Guideline. The main issue that has created significant commentary by the press and businesses is NIST’s “deprecation” of using SMS…

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