Preventing a Cyber attack
- Stay updated. Keep all your software updated.
- Zero trust. Do not trust emails, text messages or phone calls until they’re proven genuine.
- Password hygiene. Make your passwords long (over 15 characters) and strong (containing numbers, letters and symbols).
- Push Payment. Fraud Use a secure payment service like PayPal, or pay by credit card.
- Email and cloud. Never reuse an email or cloud password.
Preparing for a Cyber attack
- Backup. Always have at least two copies of data.
- Call recording. Consider putting a call recording app on your mobile phone.
- Clone your hard drive. Cloning makes an exact copy of your computer’s hard drive and puts it on another disk drive.
- Separation. Separate your electronic content (photos, video, spreadsheets, document and purchased software etc.) from your internet-connected computer by moving it to a separate, external hard drive.
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