KnowBe4 Releases Top 5 Cybersecurity Tips for the 2021 Holiday Season
December 13 2021 - 10:47AM
KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness
training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it has
released a set of the top 5 cybersecurity tips to help protect end
users against a variety of dangerous scams during the 2021 holiday
season.
Every year, people fall victim to holiday scams. The FBI says
that the two most popular holiday scams are non-delivery and
non-payment crimes. In a non-delivery scam, a buyer pays for
goods or services they find online, but those items are never
received. Conversely, a non-payment scam involves goods or services
being shipped, but the seller is never paid. According to the
Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) 2020
report, non-payment or non-delivery scams cost people
more than $265 million.
Here is a list of the Top 5 Cybersecurity Tips for the 2021
Holiday Season:
- If the price of a good or service seems too good to be true or
if a high-demand or hard to get item becomes available on an
unknown website, be very cautious.
- Always double check the seller’s online presence and reputation
when making online purchases, especially if it is from a website
you have never heard of.
- When paying for items, be careful of offers to accept gift
cards that are for other stores as payment, and if paying for items
with an online payment app such as PayPal, ensure that the method
of payment offers the buyer protection.
- Ensure that you do not reuse passwords across different
websites and use a password that is not easily guessable.
Cybercriminals know that if they get one password, it is likely to
work in other places. Password managers are a great tool for
storing passwords safely.
- Enabling multi-factor authentication on email, shopping and
social media accounts whenever possible is a positive extra step
that end users can take to better protect their accounts.
“Nothing will rob a person of holiday cheer as fast as
discovering that they have been scammed out of their hard-earned
money,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4. “Some of the best ways
to stay safe during the holiday season are not even high tech in
nature, making these tips easy for anyone to follow. Taking note of
these five simple tips is a great way to ensure that everyone has a
safe and secure holiday season.”
For more information on protecting against holiday scams,
download KnowBe4’s 2021 Holiday Resource Kit:
https://www.knowbe4.com/holiday-resource-kit.
About KnowBe4KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest
security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is
used by more than 44,000 organizations around the globe. Founded by
IT and data security specialist, Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 helps
organizations address the human element of security by raising
awareness about ransomware, CEO fraud, and other social engineering
tactics through a new-school approach to awareness training on
security. Kevin Mitnick, an internationally recognized
cybersecurity specialist and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer,
helped design the KnowBe4 training based on his well-documented
social engineering tactics. Tens of thousands of organizations rely
on KnowBe4 to mobilize their end users as their last line of
defense.
Amanda Tarantino
KnowBe4
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