by Anna Brown | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
It’s incredibly easy to send anonymous emails and hide your identity. You can hide your IP address and even make it look like the email comes from a different IP address. Unfortunately, we see many people abuse this to threaten, stalk, or abuse someone online....
by Anna Brown | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
Always use a different password Not a month goes by without another huge data breach from a major company. And every time, the information of millions of users is stolen. But not only via big companies, but also through phishing emails and internet scams. You...
by Anna Brown | May 28, 2020 | Blog
Sextortion definition According to the FBI, sextortion is “a serious crime that occurs when someone threatens to distribute your private and sensitive material if you don’t provide them images of a sexual nature, sexual favors, or money.” Another...
by Anna Brown | May 21, 2020 | Blog
Disrupting a Gumtree Scam that converges with a Romance Scam In western countries, less than 1 in 100 cybercrimes are investigated, and less than 1 in 10,000 are prosecuted. So what can you do? We can’t “solve” these crimes, but we can disrupt the...
by Anna Brown | May 15, 2020 | Blog
Phishing definition and how to protect yourself Phishing is an attempt to deceive users in order to take sensitive information from them via emails, telephone or text. Social Engineering Phishing applies social engineering – the act of deception, or capitalizing...
by Anna Brown | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog
The FBI urges everyone to be extra vigilant for cyber scams during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cybercriminals are using the pandemic fears for their profit, using a fresh set of malicious software and cyber scams. There are thousands of cybercriminals. These range...
