CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS
ACT SMART • BE AWARE • BE SECURE
Security Hints & Tips: URLs Are Only Half the Story
1/31/2024 - Many companies, products, and services have started offering text message alerts to keep you up to date. Scammers are aware of these alerts and they’re taking advantage of unsuspecting individuals.
Security Tips: Multi-factor Authentication
10/18/2023 - Each month, our users identify hundreds of phishing emails using the Phish Alert Button (PAB). Manitoulin Global Forwarding's Pina Hilts (Accounts Payable) and Manitoulin Transport's Sarah McAdorey (Accounts Receivable) ...
Security Hints & Tips: Watch Out For Smishing!
1/27/2023 - Many companies, products, and services have started offering text message alerts to keep you up to date. Scammers are aware of these alerts and they’re taking advantage of unsuspecting individuals.
Security Hints & Tips: Vishing
8/4/2023 - Cybercriminals not only use the internet and email to gain access to sensitive information, they use telephones to their unlawful advantage. Vishing is the term for criminal attempts to influence action or gain confidential information over the phone using social engineering.
Gmail 2FA (2 factor authentication)
Q) Do I have to use the 2-Step Authentication system every time I log in to Gmail? A) No. Only when you are using a new device that is unknown to Google QPM Password details are here
Security Hints & Tips: Browser Notifications
5/4/2023 - Most internet browsers allow websites to offer browser notifications. The first time you visit a website that offers browser notifications, you will see a pop-up message at the top of your browser window asking you to either allow or block notifications.