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CrowdStrike phishing emails and … about your data

Most likely you are indirectly affected by CrowdStrike Outage. And, about AT&T, Supreme Court kneecapped US cyber strategy. Do you use Venmo? Hide your friends NOW!

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Daniel Masterson, Ai Courtrie Buson & Bard Gee
July 19, 2024

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Let’s continue the AT&T breach saga by saying that anything online is forever. And when you’re making deals like that with a criminal, how are you going to verify that the data is deleted? But the tough question remains: can you make a deal like that with a criminal when the people you trust the most can’t even promise anything like that.

REMEMBER: Whatever you put online lives forever!

Meanwhile … in light of this happening to millions of Americans, The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy.

🤷‍♀️ What now?

So they have our data. What do we do now?

Hexagon Center offers services to help protect you before anything happens - from securing your credit to providing you a hotline to ask for live help. Below is not an exhaustive list of things you can do.

  • Change your password

  • Establish a personal identifier

  • Use or ask for 2-factor authentication

  • Lock or freeze your credit

  • Back up everything

Hot Tip: In the days to come, Hexagon Center will write about each of these points where we will provide the link in the archive to each of them. (Do you know that each newsletter is archived here?)

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We didn’t really want to talk about AT&T again but the development, even though it has not been confirmed, reemphasized a few facts: (1) criminals cannot be trusted. (2) online data cannot be deleted. (3) we just have to keep our vigilance up.

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  • MFA (Multi-factor authentication or 2FA or 2-Factor Authentication) - a multi-step or 2-step account login process that requires users to enter more information than just one.

  • Cyber Attackers and Cyber Predators - these terms refer to people who use any kind of technology, including cell phones, to prey on us.

  • Phishing - a common type of cyber attack that targets individuals through email, text messages, phone calls, and other forms of communication.

  • Disinformation - the practice of providing information that has been deliberately falsified.

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