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The frequency at which the cybersecurity awareness team runs phishing drills.
What is once a month?
The two most popular operating systems for computers.
What are Windows and MacOS?
The full name of the U.S. Government organization that provides a wealth of information for protecting against online scams. Also known as the FTC.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Many INL employees have a profile on this professional networking site.
What is LinkedIn?
The INL phone number to call with cybersecurity questions.
What is (208) 526-1000?
If someone ask you for payment with these, it’s a sure sign of a scam.
What are gift cards?
Other than phones, the most popular smart devices.
What are smart TVs?
When the IRS needs to contact an individual taxpayer they will never start with this.
What is an email message (or phone call, or text)?
These criminals or scammers keep profiles on dating apps to look for victims.
What are romance scammers?
The full name of the PAB; a button in Outlook used to report suspicious email messages.
What is the Phish Alert Button?
Thieves often use these online resources to checkout layouts of homes they are targeting.
What are real estate web sites?
The main reason we restart our computers on a regular basis.
What is to make sure the latest patches and updates are installed?
The acronym for the European Union’s main privacy law.
What is the GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation?
The product which generates profits for most social media.
What is you, or your information or personal information?
This Artificial Intelligence Large Language Model has recently been impersonated very frequently on Facebook.
What is ChatGPT?
One method to check if a profile or pet picture is stolen from some other online post.
What is a reverse image search?
The name of the software INL installs on employees smart phones to allow access to INL email.
What is Ivanti Go? Also acceptable: What is Mobile Iron?
Cyber spies allegedly from this country recently attempted to hack both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns.
What is Iran?
The reason many romance scammers pretend to be in the military.
What is a built-in excuse to be unavailable for face-to-face meetings?
This U.S. government organization runs the Internet Crimes Complaint Center (or IC3).
What is the FBI?
This cyber-attack method infects a legitimate web site to target a specific group of people who often visit that site.
What is a watering hole attack?
This population segment represents the majority of Mac users.
What are women?
The full name of the U.S. Government organization tasked with keeping the nation cybersecure which is also called CISA.
What is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency?
Do this if you plan to meet someone to obtain an item you purchased via social media.
What is meet in a public place? Also acceptable: Bring a friend?
This portable magnetic storage medium could store up to 1.2 megabytes of data, but was made obsolete by a physically smaller version in the mid-1990's.
What was the Five and a Quarter Inch floppy disk.