Your odds of being victimized by Internet crime are slim, but cybersecurity experts say people should still take steps to protect themselves.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson and representatives of AARP Washington, Microsoft, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and others outlined online security steps for 157 people who attended a workshop at the Red Lion Inn on Thursday.
Among the steps were turning off your wireless card when not using it, being suspicious of email and phone calls asking for money or offering tech support, and avoiding online banking on public networks.
“If you do at least one of these things, you will harden the target,” said Doug Shadel, state director for the AARP Washington, which cosponsored Thursday’s event with the attorney general’s office and Microsoft.
AARP Washington surveyed 800 Washingtonians and found that 73 percent of them go online on a daily basis. But the survey also found some habits that put them at risk of cybercrime, such as using public wireless networks to do online banking (25 percent), not changing their passwords every 90 days (41 percent) and not using a passcode to lock their smartphones (25 percent.) For the full article click here
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