Is your e-mail domain secure?
In recent months we have seen an increase in phishing and spoofing emails. It’s possible that you may have seen them in your inbox! These are some scenarios you may have come across:
THINGS WE THINK ABOUT
Earth Day 2019
A little history: Earth Day was founded in 1970 out of the want to educate and bring public awareness to environmental issues. It’s no secret that as a species, we’ve wreaked a bit of havoc on our one and only inhabitable planet as no other species has.
Everything we do has an impact on the world around us and that definitely includes all of the technology around us. Many tech companies these days recognize the strain their devices or services put on the environment and work to offset it. See below for a roundup of some Earth Day reading we’ve been doing in the mac-tech office.
Who knows your password?
Head over to haveibeenpwned.com to find out! This website shines a spotlight on how the large amount of data breaches are affecting us personally. When you enter your email address the website will look through records on hacked accounts and points out which of them affect you. Being on the list means that the information stored on a hacked site (possibly including the password in use at the time of the hack) should be considered in the public domain.
Looking up your own information makes for a jarring experience: it shows that many of our personal accounts have been compromised, sometimes years ago. And if you are like many technology users who try to “keep it simple” by using the same password on multiple sites you will be shocked to realize that this practice may have possibly exposed additional information to anyone who can now try your (now public) logins on other sites you utilize.
Ransomware: What You Should Know and How To Protect Yourself
You may have heard about the Ransomware attack that has affected several countries in Europe, mainly in the UK. It goes by the following list of names:
- WannaCrypt0r
- WeCry
- WannaCrypt
- We Crypt0r