If you don’t know the sender, it’s a hard no. If you get an email with a link embedded in it, do not open it. The general rule is don’t click on links in emails. Your email habits probably need to change. Schwab’s advice: “Treat every email you get as guilty unless it’s proven innocent.” Scammers prey upon our sense of urgency and desire to get through our inbox as quickly as possible. We are prone to respond too easily and open attachments or respond to requests for sensitive information. I went more slowly and realized the button below the one I’d clicked was “do not sell my personal information.” I clicked that and the next screen didn’t load-I guess what they wanted was my information more than my parking fee, so I moved on and scanned a different sign. I was in a rush and when the screen popped up to move on to payment I hit “proceed,” but my brain had registered something, and I canceled out and started over.
THIRD LIFECRAFT CODE
Nowhere is it truer than in cybersecurity that “Trust is earned over time and disappears in an instant.” An example of this happened yesterday as I scanned a QR code to pay for parking.
Do not let your desire to be efficient or get a task done allow you to override this rule. Start skeptical, trust slowly and verify. What are biggest security threats? And what are the minimum steps to take to protect yourself? Here are the “must do’s”. My consultant covers every piece of advice Schwab recommends, from patching, anti-virus, third party patching, phishing threat monitoring, device encryption and email security. Every month when we go over my “Monthly Health Report,” my gratitude for them grows. One of the first decisions I made when I started my own business was to hire an IT consultant. Under the category of “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning” (Catherine Aird), Schwab security experts told stories of well-intentioned, smart, and careful advisors who have been victims of cybercrimes. I recently attended an excellent cybersecurity webinar for financial advisors who custody their client accounts at Schwab. The barrier to entry is so low that they can go on online and buy services and supplies to help them out. Not only are they motivated and rewarded for these slimy efforts, but they are getting a lot of help. The bad news is that the creeps-often called “bad actors” by those in the security business-are out there too, profoundly misapplying their smarts and resources to scam and thieve. The good news is that Oura developers are watching out for me, because I know most of these “patches” are created to close known security gaps. I can’t set this device to auto-update, so when this happens it’s always a good news-bad news moment.
THIRD LIFECRAFT UPDATE
The other day it prompted me to update its firmware.
I wear a fitness and sleep tracker, the Oura ring.
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