Almost half of American adults have had the experience of their personal information being exposed in some way by cyber criminals. An equal number of millennials have experienced being a victim of some type of cybercrime. Well over half of Americans have experienced receiving an online scam offer. One in three homes with computers experience being infected with malicious software. Over a half million social media accounts are hacked every day.
Those sobering statistics come courtesy of the United States government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), available at https://cisa.gov. Thinking about cyber security issues, passwords, multi-factor authentication, browser clearing and the like might not be much fun, but even less fun is having your personal information or the information of your school or workplace compromised to detrimental or catastrophic effects.
Data Privacy Week https://staysafeonline.org/programs/data-privacy-week/about/ takes place every January to try and get people to resolve to be better protected in the new year. This year’s week runs Jan. 24-28. Organized by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, they provide a lot of short, easy-to-understand tutorials and videos to get you more cybersecure confident at https://staysafeonline.org/resources/.
The Madison College Libraries also has a great guide about online security and privacy at https://libguides.madisoncollege.edu/onlinesecurity. The guide provides practical links to and…
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