Be Sociable
Online platforms that are used to "Socialize" and to connect with friends, family, or peers?
What are Social Media Networks or Websites?
A type of "scam" that involves sending "Phishy" email messages which appear to be from a well-known sender, such as your manager, your bank, or a mortgage company, for example.
What is a Phishing scam?
Something you should do on a regular basis to ensure you can restore your computer if your data is corrupted or encrypted (held for ransom).
What is backup your computer/data?
A catch-all term for "software" intentionally designed to perform "Malicious" actions on electronic devices.
What is Malware (Malicious Software)?
Unsolicited email messages sent in bulk. Also, the name of a popular brand of canned meat.
What is Spam?
This social media platform "Faced" a data breach in 2018 when millions of user profiles were compromised.
What is Facebook?
Bad grammar
All Words Begin With An Upper-Case Letter
A link to click so you can update your information
A request for personal information
A message conveying a sense of urgency
What are things that may indicate an email message is a Phishing scam?
Cybersecurity is this person's responsibility.
What is "Everyone's"?
A malicious computer program designed to "Scare" the user into buying and downloading unnecessary or potentially dangerous software, such as fake antivirus protection.
What is a Scareware?
The practice of regularly ensuring you have the most current software version to protect against known vulnerabilities.
What is Patching or updating software?
Engaging in threatening or meanspirited speech, spreading rumors and giving someone a hard time online are all examples of this…..
What is cyberbullying
An email message received from a "Nigerian prince" asking you to give your account information so he can share millions of dollars he has in an account.
What is an email scam?
A tool used to help you "Manage" your "Passwords" so that you don't have to write them down….
What is a Password Manager?
This type of malware encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for their release.
What is Ransomware?
"Tailing" a person through a secure door or "gate" without using the badge reader. This is also a popular pre-game activity at American football games...
What is tailgating?
A "dishonest scheme" to defraud victims by offering tempting content such as "Free" online giveaways, and access to "Special" Social Media Groups.
What are Social Media Scams?
An action you can take that will "report" a Phishing email message as a "Phish" and send it directly to the Security Team…
What is click the "Report Phish" button in Outlook?
An "authentication" method that requires the user to provide "Multiple" verification "factors" to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
This type of malware is designed to secretly "Spy" on you and steal sensitive information from a computer or network.
What is spyware?
The practice of spying on a person by looking over their "shoulder" at an ATM or while they are "Surfing" the web on a computer.
What is shoulder surfing?
when a person uses the same password across multiple online accounts, such as using the same password for your social media account and your bank account.
What is Password Reuse?
Use your mouse to hover over the sender's name to see their email address
Respond to the sender by using the email address you have saved in your contacts
Call the sender and verify they sent the email
What are things you can do to prevent falling victim to an email Phishing scam?
Eight to twelve characters, upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, alphabetical as well as "special" characters, easy to remember but hard to guess, never shared with anyone, and never written down and left near your computer.
What are guidelines to make your passwords strong?
Malware that disguises itself as useful and legitimate software but performs malicious actions such as deleting files and stealing confidential information.
What is a Trojan Horse?
This term refers a process of encoding information so that it is only readable by authorized parties with the correct key to decode it.
What is Encryption?