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Follow these tech tips to help avoid malware, ensure cybersecurity

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If you're getting a new printer, Kim Komando recommends a factory reset it to erase the details of what you’ve printed over the years.

You need a timer and you need it fast. Do a Google search for “timer” and one appears right there for you to use. There’s a stopwatch option too. Easy, right?

Here’s another smart tech tip I’m surprised so many people mess up. Most people fill in the email recipient section before writing the message. That’s a mistake. Make that your very last step – that way, there’s a much lower chance you’ll send an email before it’s truly ready to send.

Don’t stop there. Let’s dive into easy, quick tech tips you’ll use all the time.

Cybersecurity 101: After you download a PDF file online, look at the file extension. You’re looking for .pdf. If the filename ends with .exe, delete it – it’s likely malware.

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Vietnam works to ensure safer internet environment for all people

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Vietnam works to ensure safer internet environment for all people hinh anh 1

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This year’s World Safer Internet Day is themed “Want to talk about it? Making space for safe conversations about life online”.

Statistics show that more than 175,000 children around the world access the internet every day, and they experience both the benefits and risks of using the internet. Equipping children with information safety knowledge when using the internet is a matter of concern in all countries worldwide.

Therefore, World Safer Internet Day aims to promote the safe use of digital technology and create positive effects on children and young people. It conveys a message that young people, parents, teachers, police, and technology companies join hands in coming up with initiatives in order to create a safe internet environment.

According to Deputy Minister Dung, all the people in Vietnam need to use a safe internet environment.

In 2022, Vietnam’s digital technology industry reached a total revenue of about 148 billion USD. The revenue from internet security products and services in 2022 hit about VND 4.85 trillion VND, 26% higher than that of 2021. Domestic information security enterprises have mastered over 95% of information security products and solutions.

Many new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and virtual reality technology (AR, VR) have been applied to ‘Made in Vietnam’ information security products.

According to Tran Dang Khoa,  Deputy Director of the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, relevant agencies need to pay attention to and allocate resources to train and foster full-time or part-time staff in information security towards the goal of meeting standard skills of information security human resources.

Nguyen Quang Dong, Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Media Development, stressed the importance of strengthening the promotion of digital safety campaigns. They accomplished this with vivid short clips and infographics in order to popularise digital security safety knowledge and skills to the public and provide guidelines on cyber safety for all people.

World Safer Internet Day was initiated in 1999. By…

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California Dairies Chooses Veeam to Secure Critical Data, Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Against Ransomware

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COLUMBUS, Ohio–()–Veeam® Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection, today announced it was selected by California Dairies, Inc. (CDI) to protect their Microsoft 365 data and mitigate cyberattacks. Veeam is also ensuring business continuity through verified disaster recovery (DR) strategies, fast-tracking data protection for multi-cloud ecosystems and offering additional ransomware resilience for the #1 dairy processing cooperative in California that produces safe, fresh milk for all 50 states and more than 50 countries.

CDI is the largest farmer-owned milk-processing cooperative in California, producing approximately 40% of the state’s milk and 20% of the nation’s butter. The company is comprised of more than 300 dairy farms producing nearly 17 billion pounds of milk annually, which CDI processes to make butter, fluid milk products and milk powders. CDI’s production of fresh, high-quality dairy products every day is key to its ongoing success, but this can be a challenge if there’s an unforeseen IT incident.

After facing a near-catastrophic failure where an on-premises Microsoft Exchange server became unavailable, CDI was able to restore data using Veeam Backup & Replication™. Following this incident, CDI recognized the benefits of migrating its on-premises environment to the cloud and decided to deploy Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for its ease of use, simplicity and reliability.

“Each dairy farm is integral to everything we do as an organization, so protecting the data that helps us collect, market and process milk while providing services to our members is critically important,” said Matthew Prieto, Director of Infrastructure and Security at CDI. “From the first time we started using Veeam solutions, we have not been let down. We know our data is protected and always available when we need it. Veeam has been absolutely core to business continuity, so as we’re moving more backups to the cloud, we know we’re covered.”

Like many manufacturing companies, CDI was an early adopter of virtualization. After CDI determined that backing up physical servers to tape, wasn’t suitable for virtual machines, CDI chose Veeam…

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Here’s How to Ensure Your Incident Response Strategy is Ready for Holiday Hackers

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Holiday Hackers

The best line of defense against holiday hacking schemes is a comprehensive incident response strategy that focuses on end-user vulnerabilities.

The holiday season is upon us and with it a slew of cybersecurity scams preying on end-user vulnerabilities.

Because employees often use their business emails and cell phones as their primary point of contact, these scams quickly become a threat to employer computer systems. With so many people shopping online, tracking shipments, and entering sensitive data across multiple websites, holiday hackers are primed and ready to attack your networks by taking advantage of your employees’ online actions and cell phone usage.

According to the FBI, the two most frequent types of holiday scams include non-delivery and non-payment crimes – when a consumer either pays for a product or service that is never delivered or products being shipped without the seller receiving payment. Cybercriminals are also keen on gift card fraud and auction fraud, as well as phishing attempts over email or text messages that disguise malicious links as purchasing confirmations, order tracking information, or shipment notifications.

This time of year especially, cyber criminals are relying on people being too distracted to realize that they have clicked on a malware link or entered their login credential on a fraudulent website.

The heightened number of cybersecurity threats around the holidays underscore just how important it is to have a comprehensive incident response (IR) strategy in place, protecting both your employees and your company’s digital infrastructure.

Building an Incident Response Strategy for the Holidays

A thorough incident response plan – which is essentially the cybersecurity policies and procedures used to identify, contain and eliminate attacks – is critical to business operations throughout the year. But because the holidays come with a unique set of cybersecurity threats, it is worth revisiting your plan to make sure it is “prepped” for the holiday season.

According to the SANS Institute, a comprehensive IR strategy is centered on six core objectives: preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned….

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