{"id":1030,"date":"2019-01-03T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.52.228.46\/~itegriti\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2021-04-12T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T05:25:56","slug":"top-tips-to-guard-against-cyber-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/2019\/cybersecurity\/top-tips-to-guard-against-cyber-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips to Guard Against Cyber Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; layout=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; border_position=&#8221;all&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; last=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;&#8221; hover_type=&#8221;none&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #002868;\">Top Tips to Guard Against Cyber Crime<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><br \/>\n<strong>DON\u2019T CLICK THAT LINK<\/strong><br \/>\nSocial Engineering and Phishing, or \u201cHacking the Human\u201d, this is highly effective and easier than hacking a system. <strong>STOP<\/strong> &amp; think before you click and <strong>NEVER<\/strong> share social security numbers, bank information, or account information and passwords. Watch for emails with generic greetings, email addresses that do not match known company website addresses, and bad grammar or spelling. Avoid using company computers or devices to surf the net as this opens your employer to cyber risk as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STAY UPDATED<\/strong><br \/>\nInstall updates for OS and applications, and anti-virus signatures. Software is buggy, and hackers find ways into computers through these bugs. Developers are constantly racing to patch these cyber holes. Hackers will exploit known issues in your computers, tablets, and phones. Patching is <strong>ABSOLUTELY<\/strong> necessary, you need to install updates when available. If you worry about patch issues, wait a week but not a month or a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USE BETTER PASSWORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nUse <strong>LONG<\/strong> passwords with letters, numbers and special characters. It\u2019s recommended that different passwords are used for every account, but at a minimum\u2026 do not use the same passwords at work that you use for your personal accounts. And <strong>NEVER<\/strong> share your passwords with anyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROTECT YOURSELF ON PUBLIC WI-FI<\/strong><br \/>\nPublic Wi-Fi is unsafe and <strong>DIRTY<\/strong>. Treat coffee shops, hotel and airport Wi-Fi as you would a public restroom. It\u2019s that bad. Use a good Virtual Private Network (VPN) application on your laptops, tablets and phones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T OVERSHARE<\/strong><br \/>\nBe careful of what you post on social media. Don\u2019t publicly share a message that you will be out of the country for three weeks, and <strong>DO NOT SHARE<\/strong> your home addresses publicly either. Make sure privacy settings are set to only share with people that you know and trust. You can share pictures with larger audiences when you return from your trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHECK YOUR CREDIT<\/strong><br \/>\nCheck your credit annually to make sure you <strong>KNOW<\/strong> what accounts are open and reported balances match your records. It\u2019s free and easy, but only use reputable sources like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/faq\/consumer-protection\/get-my-free-credit-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #4e91cd;\">www.ftc.gov<\/span><\/a> site from the federal government to do so.[\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Engineering and Phishing, or \u201cHacking the Human\u201d, this is highly effective and easier than hacking a system. <strong>STOP<\/strong> &amp; think before you click and <strong>NEVER<\/strong> share social security numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itegriti.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}