Cyber Advice - check the security of your email
Published: 25 January 2024
Cyber advice from Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre ...
Little Steps to Becoming Cyber Resilient
We understand that cyber resilience can appear to be a mountain to climb, so take little steps with us each week to consider and implement your cyber resilience.
As they say... each journey starts with a step.
Week 1: Knowing your current compromise.
The most common form of account
take over is via passwords - either from being exposed in a data breach or by
way of dictionary attack. It
doesn’t matter how well secured the rest of your systems are if you have a
password that everyone knows.
Do you know if your password has been compromised?
Visit haveibeenpwned.com and
search for your email address.
Whilst you are there, why not also look to see if any emails using your domain have been caught in any data breach? You can also sign up so you get notified of any in the future so you can change them before anyone abuses the details. What to do if you have been compromised.
Change that password now...
and in every account that you have used that password or a variation
of it.
Tell your employees, friends and families to check theirs – help everyone become cyber resilient.
Next week... Default passwords – why you need to change them.