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Source: SecureTheVillage   Date: 04/05/2023

Four Steps to Freeze Your Credit

Scammers want to take your identity and use your credit.   Freeze your credit at the 4 credit bureaus and check your credit rating annually at each. Identity theft, described in Wikipedia, is “the theft of personally identifying information, generally including a person’s name, date of birth, social security number, driver’s license number, bank account or…
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Source: SecureTheVillage.org   Date: 03/11/2022

Personal CyberSecurity: The Essentials w/Dr. Steve Krantz

It’s dangerous in cyberspace and some feel helpless in the face of computer viruses, email scams, hacking and the like. Dr. Steve Krantz presents clear guidance in how you can protect yourself, including your PC, Mac and smartphone.
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Source: SecureTheVillage   

Start Engineering

At Start Engineering, we think every kid can be a STEM or Cyber kid. Now available: Award-winning guidebooks to careers in cybersecurity and engineering. Workbooks and learning materials to help students explore and understand theirown aptitudes and interests. Teacher’s guides for use in the classroom, after school, at summer camp, at home,or anywhere else STEM…
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Source: Cybercrime Support Network   

#SecureTogether

Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) has teamed with Consumer Reports to create #SecureTogether, an initiative that pairs individuals (or teams of individuals) with others in their lives that may need help strengthening their online security. Together they work to implement four simple steps to better security: Implementing 2FA, adjusting privacy settings, setting automatic updates, and learning…
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Source: Pondurance   

Financial Fraud Through Cybercrime – Commonly Targeting Accounting

Federal authorities have arrested hundreds of cybercriminals that are part of an international group conducting cyber financial fraud. This group successfully scams victims that are employees focused around accounting services. Their complex schemes involve email, invoice fraud, e-commerce, payroll, and social engineering. Watch Max Henderson, Manager of Incident Response at Pondurance, dive into a case…
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Source: SecureTheVillage   Date: 05/27/2021

Assisting the Victims of Cybercrime with Stacey Wright of the Cybercrime Support Network

Description: Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) is a nonprofit organization created to meet the challenges facing individuals and small businesses affected by cybercrime. As a public-private collaboration, CSN supports individuals and small businesses through FightCybercrime.org, a resource database for those affected by cybercrime and online fraud, and ScamSpotter.org, a website to help identify scams and stop fraudsters.…
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Source: FBI   

Internet Crime Reports – FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

Annual Federal and State Internet Crime Reports compiled by IC3. Reports date from 2001 to the present.
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Source: The New Yorker   Date: 05/03/2021

The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped? Shimomura was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest yakuzacrime family in Japan. When one of his superiors asked him if he wanted to make a pile of…
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Source: Department of Labor - Employee Benefits Security Administration   

Online Security Tips for Protecting Your Retirement Account

You can reduce the risk of fraud and loss to your retirement account by following these basic rules.
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Source: Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI)   Date: 05/04/2021

The Urgent Need to Strengthen the Cyber Readiness of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses – A Proposal for the Biden Administration

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a global rush to enable remote operations by workers, companies, and government agencies. While business and society will benefit from this digital transformation, it has increased vulnerabilities worldwide and across all industry sectors. Nowhere is our exposure greater than among SMBs. Yet, many SMBs do not have the financial resources…
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Source: TED   Date: 06/01/2021

The Agony of Trying To Unsubscribe

It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox. Comedian James Veitch turned this frustration into whimsy when a local supermarket refused to take no for an answer. Hijinks ensued. This talk was presented at…
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Source: Cybercrime Support Network   

Cyber Resource Catalog

Welcome to the FightCybercrime.org Cyber Resource Catalog. From here you can search our index of cybercrime resources by type of Threat (e.g. Identity Theft, Phishing), target Audience (e.g. Seniors, Military, Child and Teen), or Keyword. The search will return any resources that meet ALL of the criteria you enter below. Resources include contact information for…
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Source: FBI   

Safe Online Surfing

Safe online surfing for teachers and students. Grades 3 – 8. Teachers – Register by visiting the Teacher Sign-Up page. Then click the Teachers link, read the instructions, and download the step-by-step guide. Students – Click the Students link and read the instructions. Then visit the island for your grade level, complete all of the games, and…
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Source: The Ohio State University   

Cybersecurity Canon

Award Winning Books in Cybersecurity curated by the Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust at Ohio State University.
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Source: The 2FactorAuth Group   Date: 03/23/2021

Two Factor Auth (2FA)

List of websites and whether or not they support 2FA
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Source: FBI   

FBI Releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2020 Internet Crime Report, Including COVID-19 Scam Statistics

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.

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