73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, and these are common across age groups. Most get scam calls, texts and emails at least weekly. https://pewrsr.ch/3IS7h4a
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Help protect yourself, your family, your job, your country.
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Can you spot the scam?
Think Netflix would email you from an iCloud address? 🤨 Probably not.
If you’re unsure whether an email is legit, don’t respond!
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Just #Take9 before clicking suspicious links.
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#Cybersecurity tip: don't forward texts, emails, or links without pausing!
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Tax season is stressful enough. Take a moment to protect yourself from a scam! #Take9 #CyberCivilDefense @PauseTake9
Nonprofits keep us all safe online.
Help Common Good Cyber ensure they thet the funding they need to help you and your community.
Believe it or not, you can do a lot to protect yourself, your job, and our country against cyber threats by pausing for 9 seconds before you click.
Follow @PauseTake9 or head to PauseTake9.org/join.
The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon:
"A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off ..."
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-a-grid-attack/
For everyone committed to #CyberCivilDefense and #take9, I'll see you at #CriticalEffectDC 6/12&13 !
Check out https://critical-effect.org for actionable risk reductions to Water, Power, Medical Care, Food & public safety in the crosshairs of VoltTyphoon before 2027
Keep your texts private, use end-to-end encryption apps like Signal.
Info on e2ee and more at https://pausetake9.org/protect-yourself
Cyber threats are personal: watch Vivian Schiller, Kiersten Todt, and Michael Schmidt, and me take main stage at #RSAC to discuss how storytelling helps us fight back
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Qk3BlMb6c
Imposter scams hit military families hard.
- Veterans are 2x more likely to lose money.
- Active-duty members face 76% more identity theft.
pausetake9 teamed up with bluestarfamilies and wefightcybercrime to share one simple step that helps keep us safer online.
#Take9 #CyberCivilDefense pausetake9.org/join
Cybersecurity nonprofits work for the Common Good. Now there is a way for us to work together to support them. https://commongoodcyber.org/news/common-good-cyber-fund-announcement/