Meagan's Cyber Spot
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Cybersecurity Basics
Lets dive into the basics of internet security and why we all should adapt safer practices online! Pay attention to where youre shopping! Imagine you're online looking up a recipie for a delicious chocolate pie, (or some other treat youd enjoy). You click a link for 'The Best Damn Chocolate Pie' with 5,000 5 star google reviews (It's probably delicious!). At the bottom of that page, you accidentally click an add for a pair of tennis shoes your husband drempt about last night. Next thing you know someone is threatening to post your nudies to your towns facebook groups if you don't give them one million dollars............................. That is probably the worst case scenario and unlikely to actually happen. It is likely though that, that website isn't trustworthy and, if you decide to go ahead and order those shoes, you will have given your contact information to a 'Bad actor' who can then do whatever they want with that information. Pay attention to where you're making your purchases! Read my next blog post for ways to still get good deals and know that you're shopping from a reputable source! (On the Upside, the chocolate pie was indeed delicious!)
Tools that You can use to stay safe!
HEY! Did you read my last blog post and come here because you need tools and solutions to safe online shopping?! If you didn’t, GO BACK and read my first blog right above us, then come here so you can have some context for what I'm about to talk about. So you're scared of being held for ransom? I am to honestly. The best way you can avoid shopping from untrust worthy sites it to simply, shop at trustworthy sites. For example, if you see an ad for adult light up sketcher shoes, but the add is looking pretty suspicious, just navigate to the official sketchers website and look up the shoes from their website that you went to yourself. If you can't find them, the add was illegitimate plain and simple. (I guarantee you they don’t have adult light up sketchers.
