Cyber Education

If you get an aggressive phone call from “the IRS” demanding money or your personal information, you likely are the target of a phone scam. So how do I know if it is really the IRS? According to the IRS, THEY WILL NEVER:

Cyber criminals have learned that the easiest way to hack your computer or steal your data is to mislead you. In this newsletter, you will learn how these type of “social engineering” attacks try to trick you and what you can do to protect yourself (and the City of LA).

We all see the news stories about cyber-criminals, stolen credit card numbers, and computer hacking. This makes us ask the question… what do I need to do to protect my computer at home or work?

In real life, clicking on a suspicious email link would have loaded a virus onto your computer and given cyber criminals access to your data, passwords, and our City network.

A common misconception about cyber attackers is that they need sophisticated technology to break into your computer. However, this is not true. The most common way to hack into our computers… is actually through you and me!