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I was skimming headlines the other morning and saw yet another about a healthcare breach —this time it was Frederick Health Medical Group. A ransomware attack took systems offline and compromised the data of more than 900,000 patients. If it feels like this keeps happening, it’s because it does. Incidents like this are becoming more common. And it’s not just …
The Hacker Is Already Watching He’s patient. He’s thorough. And most of all, he’s methodical. He already knows your name. That was easy. A quick Google search pulled up interviews you’ve done, news about a recent real estate purchase, and even an old press release with your personal email address. From there, he gets to work. He scours LinkedIn, looking …
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Scam Phone Calls Scam phone calls are all too common these days. If you notice that you begin receiving spam calls more frequently, it’s a good practice to not answer any from unfamiliar numbers. If you do pick up, don’t say anything. Scammers can potentially record your voice and gather information on you, potentially reusing your voice signature to authorize …
An Added Benefit For Our Managed Prevent Clients Decypher has recently made a commitment to improving our processes in blocking unicode domain phishing. Unicode phishing uses emails and domains with characters that are so similar to the real thing that they can trick people into thinking the links are legitimate. Luckily, our email spam solution, Proofpoint, quarantines email from unicode domains …
A RECENT IPHONE SCAM iPhones are notoriously safe against viruses and malicious software. And most of us would consider ourselves wise in detecting these cyber-scams in the current age of technology. However with Social Engineering, a scammer can easily impersonate Apple, for example. When caller ID says that Apple, Inc. is our incoming call, we would likely assume it’s safe, …
Cybersecurity & Russia, iPhone Charging, and more… Keyboard on Windows If you tend to accidentally press keys on your keyboard (perhaps due to hand tremors), “Filter Keys” can be enabled on Windows to slow down the key response so mistyped or repeated keystrokes don’t register. This accessibility feature doesn’t seem to affect regular typing. Outlook Calendars You can merge calendar …
