Protect yourself
Use these cybersecurity basics to protect yourself and your data. At home, on the road, at school and at work.
Social engineering
Forgotten your access card for the building? It can happen to everyone. That is why you don’t hesitate to let your seemingly new colleague in with you. Or the postman...
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Spearphishing
You receive an urgent request from a company executive. Can you please pay an invoice right away? This is not the normal procedure, but you are told this is an...
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Keep data secure
Just sending a file from one device to another or making a copy. Via an external hard drive, the cloud or your email. Easy as pie. But where did you...
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Public wifi
Without you realising it, your account has been hacked! Simply because you logged onto a free public network. How were you to know it was a ‘spy’ Wi-Fi? Now other...
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Everyone can be a hacker
Before you know it, there’s malware on your laptop. Simply because you left your desk for a while - maybe to get a cup of coffee. Nothing wrong with that,...
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Strong passwords
Half a millisecond. That's the average time it takes a hacker to crack a weak password like '123456' or 'password'. And passwords that consist of actual words or birth dates...
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Privacy by design
You collect data for your research or for your work. A name here, an address there. But do you really need all that data? And does everyone know what you...
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Recognize fake websites
You’re looking for information about a product. You click and read and then click again. The next day, you find you can't log in. Pre-occupied with your search, you didn't...
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Data confiscation abroad
When you go on holiday, you take all your valuables with you. These days, everything you need to run your day-to-day life, your memories and expertise are stored on your...
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Unencrypted data
You fire off a quick email to confirm an appointment or to share a file. But how do you know your data won’t be looted? Are you sure it is...
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