“The liar if he can’t convince you, tries to confuse you.“ Telephone scams (or Vishing) are becoming increasingly common. It is a way for cybercriminals to obtain personal data, which they can then use in virtual scams, such as impersonating us on social networks, taking out loans or other means of financing […]
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“Little minds, big witticisms. Let’s protect our minors from the traps of cybercriminals.” After the holiday and family break, and with the return of adults to work and children back to school, we would like to give the following recommendations to properly protect the devices used for personal/professional purposes and those used
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“Would you give your house keys to a stranger?” Right? So why do we get to use passwords similar to these: 12345678 Bart, Lisa and Maggie 03/04/1977 Password Snoopy 1950 Just as, if we had to choose a lock for our front door, we would choose the one that gives us total
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“My brain is like an internet browser. I have 17 tabs open, 3 of them are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from.” This is a typical joke to explain the complexity of the human mind or a typical working day. But if we look at it
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Our use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increased considerably in just a couple of years. ChatGPT, as one of the leading ones, already has 800 million active Users (compared to 2024 which had 120 million), receiving 5.72 billion monthly visits and processing more than 1 billion queries daily. But do we know how
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Digital disconnection is a right we all have, but which is rarely fulfilled. It implies disconnecting from technology from time to time and being able to enjoy the environment around us, without interruptions that involve a lot of thinking or that can change our mood. But digital disconnection is not only a recommendation
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Surely some of you are still on vacation or are about to pack your bags and take off. So we would like to remind you again and briefly, our recommendations for your trip: 1. BEWARE OF RESERVATION SCAMS: During the holiday season, fake booking pages and profiles are created, with extremely attractive discounts. We
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In Information Security there are three fundamental principles that are considered the ABC of Cybersecurity and that we must always learn and apply in our day-to-day work. They are easy to remember: 1. CONFIDENTIALITY: Both in the work environment, as well as in the personal environment, this principle implies that if we are
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1. Check the sender: Cybercriminals often impersonate identities of people who are trusted by the User, so they can either put an alias (First Name, Last Name) to a totally unknown email address, or they can create an address very similar to the original sender by changing one letter (such as “t” for “i”).
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What is Typosquatting? Typosquatting is a human error that cybercriminals exploit by using the cyber attack of Pharming (creation of fake web pages). Sometimes, when typing the address of a web page quickly, we can make a mistake. For this reason refers to the fact that someone ends up on the wrong (fraudulent)
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