Digital hygiene
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Guess Who? A Practical Look at Today’s Threat Actors
Aka, who’s actually out there, doing shady stuff… Understanding the different types of threat actors is one of the most effective ways to make sense of how and why incidents actually happen, and why many of them are far less sophisticated than we tend to assume. In today’s article, we’ll be exploring some of the
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Gmail address tagging… How and why to use it
A Simple Email Trick to Track Your Online Exposure There’s a small trick built into Gmail that most people either don’t know about or never think to use—and it can give you a surprising amount of insight into where your personal data ends up. Google refers to it as using email tags. On the surface,
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Your email is more than just your contact…
Your Email Address Is Not Just Contact Info It’s easy to think of your email address as something trivial—just the place where messages land. You give it out to sign up for things, to receive receipts, to log into services. But from a personal security perspective, your email address is one of the most stable
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My grandpappy didn’t die so you could continue sending me SPAM
My grandpappy fought long and hard, and gave his life for my right to an uncluttered inbox… Okay, maybe I don’t have a grandpappy that died in a spam war, but hear me out for a sec. As a Canadian, you have certain rights related to your email inbox as a commercial communications channel. Those