A little mid-week humor.
Stefan Hellersperk
April 23 at 4:31 PM · Instagram ·
Two factor authentication can keep your online accounts secure. Don't let your information be protected with just a password. That is no longer sufficient in today's interconnected world.
Just a public service announcement. All these games facebook has you doing, name the cities you have lived in starting with where you were born. List all your cars starting with your first, high school pic(usually with school name attached) etc... Think of the answers to your challenge questions for banks and credit cards. Sound like the same information? The more information these hackers have the easier time they will have to compromise your accounts. All they might need is an email address, a compromised password and some answers picked up from your Facebook games to access your accounts.
You’re working at your computer when all of the sudden – BAM! – you get a pop-up notification that your PC is infected with a virus and you must “click here” to run a scan or install antivirus software. This is a common scareware tactic used by hackers to get you to click and download a virus. (You should know we would NEVER deliver that type of pop-up to you!)
Often it will appear to be a system alert or a Microsoft operating system alert. Regardless of how legitimate it looks, NEVER click on the site or the pop-up. The safest thing to do is close your browser; do not click on the X, “Close” or “Cancel” button in the pop-up or on the site because clicking on anything on the page or pop-up will trigger a virus download. If that won’t work, bring up your task manager (hold Control + Alt + Delete on a PC and Command + Option + Esc to “Force Quit” on a Mac) and close the web browser or application where it appeared. Next, notify your IT department (us!) that this has happened so we can double-check with a legitimate scan if your computer was infected.
Stefan Hellersperk
November 19 at 8:59 AM ·
First part of this year I was asked to partner with an international group of cyber-security experts to write a book covering the dangers out there today and what business owners need to do to protect themselves. My chapter is on how critical data backup is to everyday business and people in general. Happy to say the book launches today. The Amazon link is below if anybody is interested. All proceeds of the book go to support St. Judes Hospital.
https://www.amazon.com/Thin-Ice-Leading-Cybersecurity-experts/dp/1733417672/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=on+thin+ice&qid=1604412686&s=books&sr=1-8
When online accessing a banking site or any other application containing sensitive data, make sure you log out of the site and THEN close your browser. If you simply close your browser, some of the session information that a hacker can use to gain entry is still running in the background.