How You Can Stay Safe as a College Student College life should be a time of joy, learning, and growth. Going to college can be both an exciting and intimidating time. It can be hard to feel safe when attending college. Being aware of the environment around you and staying vigilant is necessary to stay
Best Cyber Dating Tips to Stay Safe on Dating Apps
Best Cyber Dating Tips to Stay Safe on Dating Apps Online dating is one of the many ways to meet today when looking for love. Dating apps have become quite popular and extremely convenient. Just like social media apps, there are so many dating apps today. There’s more than just Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, and Match.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity applies to the measures taken to protect a computer or computer system (as on the Internet) against unauthorized access or attack. Here we at Making Sense of Security provide a few simple measures to help you stay safe in the digital world.
10 Best Ways College Students Can Safely Use Dating Apps
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Child Abduction 101: Difference between Kidnapping and Abduction
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How to Protect Your Credit
Here are 14 Simple Steps to Help Protect Your Credit Today It has become more important than ever today to protect your credit and financial data. With identity theft on the rise, one can never be too protective of their credit. Financial crimes keep multiplying and the growth will never stop. Protecting your credit is
5 Cyber Safety Tips
5 Tips for Cyber Safety With October being Cyber Awareness Month, there s much that people need to know to stay safe online. Especially on social media. It’s more than not sharing any financial information. You need to protect your private data! Here are 5 simple Cyber Safety tips to help you stay secure. Get
How to Keep Your Kids Safe This Halloween
Halloween Security Tips for Parents We all love to celebrate Halloween, but we need you and your family safe too! Halloween can be a really dangerous day for children. Halloween is all about candy, but we’ll not sugar-coat it for you. On Halloween, kids are three times more likely to get hit by a car
7 Best Online Safety Tips
Best 7 Online Safety Tips Video for Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Here are some basic online tips from Making Sense of Security to keep your digital activity safe. Don’t Give Out Personal Information Avoid online phishing attempts by keeping your personal information private. Don’t give out your phone number, social
Top 10 Holiday Shopping Cyber Safety Tips
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A Can of Phish Bait: from Surveys to Rule Changes to Your Boss’s Boss
Employees need to continue being wary of phishing scams as they begin to return to the office, according to Roger Kay at INKY. Kay describes several phishing templates that INKY has intercepted in recent months, including one that informed recipients that they needed to fill out a compliance form related to COVID-19 risks. “Reasonably well
Military Tips To Survive The Brutal Cold
“A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man.”– Mike Tipton. Knowing how to survive is key. Tyson S. was a 30-year-old man from Utah who moved to a remote part of Alaska. He had been living alone after purchasing his cabin. His nearest neighbor was over 20 miles away. Beautiful mountains, rivers,
Security admins checklist: 10 tasks to perform every year
Here is a checklist of 10 important tasks security administrators should perform to keep devices protected and secure. Security administrators oversee the secured processes in place, safeguarding the day-to-day operations of an organization. While it is easy for users to focus solely on protecting computers and their devices, security admins are tasked with managing the overall