Technology Advisor Blog

What's the difference between last minute shoppers and those not investing in cybersecurity for their small to medium sized businesses? Not very much! In both cases, impulsive decision making could potentially drain your finances and blow up in your face because you didn’t take the time to invest in safety protocols.
The holidays require a lot of time obtaining gifts for family and loved ones, and scammers are in the not-so-festive mood to try and drain your bank accounts. Black Friday is coming up with eye-catching sales, scammers are utilizing this time for all tactics to trick you into handing your personal information to them in the veil of receiving the ‘best sale of the year’.

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Between November and December, whether for work or the holidays, flights can be the most stressful part of anyone’s day when traveling. In most cases, arriving at the airport means keeping up to date with flight times, terminal changes, boarding times, checked luggage, TSA security, and arriving hours before your flight just to get through all checkpoints efficiently.
As stressful as it is, scammers are weaponizing the high emotional stress circling around flight schedules and doing the extra digging for your checked bag tags. Coming down the runway, travelers must be aware of fake airline texts, emphasizing cancelled flights and changes to be made expeditiously. With the world we live in, it’s best to keep your flight itinerary, luggage tags, and ticket information to yourself.

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Coordinating a Wishlist for the holidays with your friends, family and loved ones can be challenging. Especially when no two people are the same. In a lot of cases, whether you utilize your time management right during the season or not, (it’s completely understandable if you don’t, it’s a stressful time in the work-life balance realm), sometimes the best gift, when you don’t know what to get, is a gift card.

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In Ekaru’s previous blog, we went over how typos can unexpectedly lead you to mimicked websites designed by hackers to steal your personal information. But what if I told you that on top of having to be hyper vigilant of spelling, you also need to check a URL’s characters if all letters are from the same font?
Tricks hackers use to scam unsuspecting individuals usually consist of spam texts, phishing emails impersonating reputable companies, scams claiming you owe a specific amount of money, creating a sense of urgency - all are attempts to fatigue you and steal your information. For some, these tricks have become easy to spot due to recognizing the signs from their intensive cybersecurity awareness training. However, bad actors use evolving technology and strategies to improve their game and become harder and harder to detect.
One of their strategies to become harder to detect, is the usage of visuals in random letters from different fonts. This is a term we call Internalized Domain Name (IDN) Homograph attack.

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