Breach Report

It is your responsibility to keep yourself safe online, and education is your best defense!

Hackers are working 24/7 to "steal" names, addresses, email addresses and passwords.  Why? Profits are to be made by selling this information on the dark web.

What can you do about it?
1) Become informed.  Use Breach Report regularly to check your email address(es).  It is free to use and a service that is regularly monitoring the dark web for compromised data.  It not only shows you when your data was breached but also the company or website and the password that was being used by you at that time.  Breach Report continually monitors the dark web to provide this information. Definitely worth checking out!

2) Have good password management: use unique passwords for each account and consider using a password manager (like Last Pass)

3) Use 2-Factor Authentication whenever possible (in addition to your email and password, an additional piece of information is required for logins).

4) Use a decoy email address (created in Gmail) to use when you're not sure about giving out your "real" address

The internet is such an integral part of our lives that it is imperative we do all that we can to keep ourselves safe online.  Starting today.

Have a terrific Tech Tuesday wherever this may find you - in the sunshine, heat or maybe even where it is cool on this late spring day.