Your email account is one of the most important sources of personal information there are. If someone were to break into it, your confidential data could be decisively compromised. You should have a minimum of two email accounts, with one being a secure backup in case one email account is compromised and you need to […]

Here are some tip-offs that can alert you to a phishing email: misspellings, grammatical mistakes, including your email address in the subject line, no acknowledgement of your name, requests to verify your account, warnings that your account has been compromised. Spotting these can reduce the risk of being a phishing email victim. Total Defense is […]

Phishing scams often look like legitimate requests for information, but there are lots of ways you can spot a phishing attack. Suspicious sender addresses, unsolicited attachments and spelling and grammar mistakes are all signs that a request for information is not legitimate.

There’s a common practice of sending direct mail disguised as courts summons or other official documentation, to make a reply more likely. Many phishing emails can take basically the same approach, only in digital form. That is, they might use all-caps subject lines (e.g., “URGENT:”) to make it seem like action is required. It isn’t. […]

No company will ever, under any circumstances, ask you for your password via email. Any email asking you to provide your password is a phishing scam. If you ever need to enter your password, always type the URL of the company’s site directly into the hyperlink bar to be sure the site is genuine. Also […]

Domain key identified mail (DKIM) uses public and private keys to ‘sign’ an email you’re receiving. This often prevents messages from hitting spam or junk, and isn’t completely necessary. However, it’s worth adding DKIM verification to your email domain. Different providers have their own techniques for doing so, but once it’s up, send a test […]