🌴 Summer Travel Plans
It’s a perfect time of year to get out of your usual routine, and head to the mountains, to the beach, or explore a far off land.
Be careful of what you post online BEFORE and DURING your vacation!
You may be sharing with more people than you realize!
Travel the World!
Scammers are scanning your social media accounts, looking for any excuse to learn more about you. Telling them where you are going in advance invites all types of scams. They can call you impersonating your cruise line, tell you there is a problem and they need to run your credit card again.
They can also target your family members, calling to tell them you’ve been hospitalized, or arrested overseas, and looking to have them send money.
Take all the photos and save all the memories! Share them online only when you’ve returned home.
🔐 What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
It’s not a data breach or ransomware story if it doesn’t include a warning to use multi-factor authentication. But what is that? How do you use it?
It’s nothing more than another lock for your digital doors!
Digital Security Measures
Your login name and password makes up one key to your account.
Your phone, face, fingerprint or a physical key make up a second key.
Some phones use a fingerprint or facial recognition which can be configured on your device.
You can use a free authenticator app - Google Authenticator, Duo Security and Microsoft Authenticator are a couple of popular options.
There are also physical keys - like YubiKey - that plug into your computer
What makes it safer?
Think of your account login name as “who you are” and your password as “what you know”. That’s good security, but since logins and passwords are hacked, having an extra measure of security makes for better security.
This extra factor is “what you have” -your phone, fingerprint, face, or physical key. It’s not easy for a hacker to get one of these in addition to the login and password.
Try it on Facebook - Click your profile picture in the top right corner and select Settings & Privacy > Settings. Click Security and login. Scroll down to Two-Factor Authentication and click Edit. Select how you want to authenticate - try something easy at first like Text Message.
Once you’ve started using Text Message, you can get more advanced later with an authenticator app. If you have questions, I’m just an email away.
🌟 Have you Armed Yourself Against the 10 Most Common Online Scams?
Every day, scammers are working to steal Billions from smart, capable women, just like you and me. In fact, online fraud has become a $14B industry, thriving on fear, urgency and silence.
But you don’t have to be their next target.
By understanding exactly how these scams work, you take back control. You stand taller, feel more confident, and know what to look for before clicking or responding.
If you haven’t already, download your free copy of The Top 10 Online Scams that Target Women Over 50. Inside, you’ll find clear examples, prevention tips and the first steps to building unshakable digital confidence.
Together, we’re creating a hive on informed, empowered women who refuse to be fooled.
🦄 Who is Suecurity?
Susan Richards aka Sue-curity
🌉 Background: Over 30 years in information technology with a passion for keeping people and data secure.
👑 Achievement: Hosts a weekly HITRUST Secrets discussion and nerds out about security topics.
☕ Quirk: An American patriot through and through, she still enjoys Irish breakfast tea in the mornings!
🎆 Did You Know? One place I’ve always wanted to see is Petra, also known as The Lost City, in Jordan. I grew up reading British mysteries, and when a character had spoken of touristing in Petra, I thought it was a fictional place.
One recently discovered fact about a Petra monument called the Treasury, is that it’s actually a mausoleum, and 12 human skeletons have been discovered there. One thing is for sure, if I ever do go to Petra, you won’t hear about my vacation until I’m back!
The Treasury, Petra
Be safe,
