Hello and welcome to week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! So far, we’ve covered some ways you can protect yourself online. We’ve talked about good passwords, multi-factor authentication, and phishing. Knowing how to maintain good passwords, lock them in a password manager, set up MFA on your accounts, and knowing what phishing scams look like are all incredibly important steps to […]
Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Week 3 – Phishing
We are halfway through Cybersecurity Awareness month! So far, we’ve covered passwords and MFA; two important tools to keep your accounts safe from attackers. This week, we’re turning our focus to the attackers themselves and talking about those dreaded phishing emails. Phishing is when attackers use fake emails, social media posts, or direct messages (such as texts) with the goal of […]
Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Week 2 – Multifactor Authentication
Last week we kicked off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a bit of information on passwords, the keys to digital kingdoms. This week, we are going to focus on Multifactor Authentication, or MFA. If passwords are the key to the kingdom, then MFA is the retina scanner to the secret lab. Multifactor authentication is defined as a security […]
Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Week 1 – Passwords
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Throughout the month, we will be sending out some information to cover hot topics in the Cybersecurity World. Cybersecurity isn’t ‘owned’ by one department only. Though we have a Cybersecurity Team here at the VSC, the digital security of any organization belongs to every employee and student. Cyber attackers don’t target one department or user specifically, so it is the responsibility of everyone to make the most of the […]