Spelling of a website is extremely important!

Beginner's Guide to Privacy and Security

Best practices and recommendations on how to protect and recover from compromised accounts and computers, use real-world scenarios to detail how scams and phishing emails are used and provide best practices on how to use the internet in a more safe and secure manner to protect yourself, your family, and your clients.

A Beginner's Guide to Privacy and Security

Trying to remain safe online, practicing good security and working to keep your data private is extremely challenging. This is made even more difficult with the speed at which technology changes, vulnerabilities are discovered, and attackers change their tactics. Just when you think you have learned the right techniques to keep your data private and your devices, email, etc., secure, another breach is announced, a new vulnerability is discovered in your operating system or web browser, and/or attackers come up with another scam/trick to gain access to your devices or information...all of which are out of your control. If you aren't tech savvy, it can be even more overwhelming. Since technology and attack methods change so rapidly, there are no simple answers or steps you can take to be 100% protected. This is where we are hoping we can help by recommending steps you can take to increase the security of your accounts and devices, better protect your privacy, and be safer online. Check out our "Security 101" section for a collection of the minimum security procedures everyone should be following.

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Spelling a website address (URL) incorrectly can easily lead to a malicious website. Of course you may know how to spell the website address correctly, but one misstep or accidentally hitting the wrong key on the keyboard can lead to a malicious website. The best advice is to always search for a website in a trusted search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) and navigate to the website that way. Sure it may be one extra step, but it is safer. Hackers are just waiting for someone to type googgle or goggle instead of google. Likewise, hackers are just waiting for someone to type .com at the end of a .org website by mistake. If you search for the website in a trusted search engine, you will have no doubt if it is a .org or .com website.

If you want to save a step in the future or it is a website you visit regularly, navigate to the website through a trusted search engine as described above and create a bookmark to use the next time you need to visit the website.

If you want to read a story from a reliable source explaining more about the dangers of misspelling a website address with numerous examples, see https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/omitting-the-o-in-com-could-be-costly/.

At the end of the story there is a quote that states, "A report published in December 2009 by McAfee found that [.]cm was the riskiest domain in the world, with 36.7% of the sites posing a security risk to PCs."

Logical Cybersecurity

Logical Cybersecurity

Beginner's Guide to Privacy and Security

Logical Cybersecurity

A Beginner's Guide to Privacy and Security

Spelling of a website is extremely important!

Logical Cybersecurity