The last 2 years have seen a dramatic increase in cybercrime. From 2019 to 2020, there was a 435% increase in ransomware attacks, digital attacks aimed at stealing private data and holding it for ransom. 80% of these attacks used fake emails, known as phishing, to trick people into giving up their personal information. Here at home, SPU students are scammed out of thousands of dollars ever every year by online scams and fraud. How can you protect yourself? Learn best practices for staying safe online to protect yourself and your wallet. For more information visit StaySafeOnline.org
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SPU will NEVER ask you to send or verify your login credentials or other personal/confidential information via email. Your account credentials should not be shared with anyone! Learn Password Best Practices.
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Assume that any information you enter online is public unless you are using a known, trusted, secure site. Be careful when posting to social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), personal web pages, and blogs since these are great places for people to find personal information about you for identity theft. Once you post something, you can't take it back!
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Protect your valuable work, music, photos and other digital information by making an electronic copy and storing it safely. If you have a copy of your data and your device falls victim to ransomware or other cyber threats, you will be able to restore the data from a backup. Use the 3-2-1 rule as a guide to backing up your data. The rule is: keep at least three (3) copies of your data, and store two (2) backup copies on different storage media, with one (1) of them stored at another location.
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