Protecting your personal and financial from online cyber attacks

Josh Sanders
6:49 PM, Apr 9, 2018

A proactive approach is best to secure your personal and financial information online

There were over 2 billion data records affected by cyber-attacks in 2017 and recently 87 million Facebook users affected by a breach that has CEO Mark Zuckerburg testifying in front of congress on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Travis Day works as an information security expert at Arrc Technology. He says a proactive approach to on-line security can reduce the risk of being hacked.

“Password hygiene is very good, making a strong complicated password even passphrase is the better option…also securing your privacy settings and using websites with encryption capabilities,” said Day.

Link to real-time cyber-attack map.

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