Welcome to HakProof.com. This site is my attempt to reach out beyond the physical classroom to the community at large to help each of you increase your personal SQ or Security Quotient. Today was my sixth visit to WHTC 1450 AM radio station in Holland Michigan to be a guest on the daily show, Talk of the Town.
Click on Link to access the Podcast, of my time on today’s show:
http://whtc.com/podcasts/talk-of-the-town-today/99/cyber-security-with-james-allen-nov-30/
I promised the listeners to provide an outline of what we talked about today. Hopefully, you will also find the information beneficial.
Holiday Scams
Here is the original link to the list I spoke about on the radio.
I won’t duplicate the article here, but I do want to stress the need to do a least a little research into your holiday opportunities to make sure you are not being taken advantage of. The fraudsters trying to steal from you do not share your holiday cheer.
Remember to use reliable services like Paypal or Amazon Pay to minimize the chance of credit card fraud and use a credit card instead of a debit card when needed so you will be able to more easily contest bogus charges to your account or to stop a transaction if you realize intime that you have been had.
One of the callers today spoke of loosing control of his email account for a period of time and not all his mail goes to the trash instead of his inbox. Below is a link that may help fix the problem:
- This link has multipe sugestions for solving the problem if you are using gmail.
- http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/73588/gmail-post-hacking-restoring-incoming-email-to-inbox-instead-of-trash
- To access the Gmail settings page talked about in the link look for the Gear icon near the top of the right hand side of the Gmail webpage. Click on the icon and select settings from the option listed.
- Once in Settings there are a series of tabs, starting with General, Lables, etc. Click on each to see the various settings. If you do not understand what an option does that you think may be related to your problem then use the Learn More links available on each page.
- Another important page mentioned in the above site is https://myaccount.google.com/.
- Happy hunting.