User Awareness Program

Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

The IC3 has received a high volume of complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. In these scams, a caller claims that the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representati...

Holiday Shopping Tips

This holiday season the FBI reminds shoppers that cyber criminals aggressively create new ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims, including conducting fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased wit...

Unplugged Engineers

Unplugged Engineers: I recently held a conversation over lunch with a couple engineers who seemed proud to establish that they were not participating in the “social media craze.” They looked at me with eyebrows raised as I sheepishly admitted that yes, I actually enjoyed c...

Wireless Security At Home

The following is a “Vigilize Post” and is intended to be used in your next e-mail security awareness reminder. Please see “intended use” at the bottom of the post. For those of you with wireless networks, this video (by mindfulsecurity.com) summari...

Telephone Calls Claiming to Be From the FDIC

Special Alert! The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports of suspicious telephone calls where the caller claims to represent the FDIC and is calling regarding the collection of an outstanding debt. To date, the callers have alleged that th...

Health Care Fraud Trends and Tips

A pharmaceutical company marketed four drugs to doctors. The drugs had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for specific medical conditions—like rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, and neuropathic pain—but the company promoted the drugs for other uses as ...

Let’s think this through!

Thinking Through Technology presents many risks that we discuss on a regular basis. There are many threats out there . . . . hackers, scammers, fraudsters, even divorcees trying to gather financial information on their ex-spouse! But there is one threat that we often overl...

Three Little Phrases

There are three little sayings that should accompany your approach to protecting our customers’ information: The three little words, the four magic words, and the three fastest words: The Three Little Words: “For your protection.” Use these words when e...

Whose side are you on?

Did you know that automated software, called “Cracker Software,” can throw an entire dictionary at a login prompt in less than twenty seconds? Because of that, we can’t use dictionary words if we want to use passwords less than 15 characters long.* Meanwhile, studies prove ...

Don’t Be Scared By ‘Scareware’

We’ve all seen them—pop-up messages telling you your computer is infected with a virus. To get rid of it, all you have to do is order the antivirus software being advertised. Before you click, though, know this: few Internet security companies use ads to tell you about a vir...

User Awareness Program

Telephone Collection Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

Holiday Shopping Tips

Unplugged Engineers

Wireless Security At Home

Telephone Calls Claiming to Be From the FDIC

Health Care Fraud Trends and Tips

Let’s think this through!

Three Little Phrases

Whose side are you on?

Don’t Be Scared By ‘Scareware’

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