Cybersecurity Experts Shares Cyber Monday Safety Tips – Spectrum News 1
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — While you’re browsing the internet for great Cyber Monday deals, cybercriminals will be shopping for credit card information and cracking passwords to fund their own Christmas shopping. What You Need To Know
Cybercriminals will be on the hunt for credit card and account inform…….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — While you’re browsing the internet for great Cyber Monday deals, cybercriminals will be shopping for credit card information and cracking passwords to fund their own Christmas shopping.
What You Need To Know
- Cybercriminals will be on the hunt for credit card and account information during the holiday shopping season
- Commonly passwords are used by hackers to gain access to people’s accounts
- Commonly passwords are used by hackers to gain access to people’s accounts
- Ransomware attacks are a growing problem for small businesses
Jeff Chandler is the founder and CEO of Z-JAK Technologies which provides information technology services for businesses.
Jeff Chandler (right) studied computer science at the University of Louisville before starting a company that provides technology services to companies. (Spectrum News 1/Ashley N. Brown)
“JAK is the initials for my children. So one of the reasons I did that was to help me remember to keep my family in mind as part of my business as it grows. It’s not just about myself. It’s about providing for my family as well,” says Chandler.
Chandler enjoys working in IT because it involves two of his favorite things.
“It’s always been a big thing that I love about working in computers, is helping people figure out something that’s wrong and figure out how I can help them solve that problem,” says Chandler.
His IT career started when he worked for an insurance agent.
“We bought a computer and he said, to figure out what to do with it to make my business successful and so I learned that way,” says Chandler.
He went on to study computer science at the University of Louisville.
He’s been helping small businesses with their technology needs through his company since.
This shopping season he wants all families to shop safely online. He says that starts with passwords.
“1234567. 12345678. Password. I love you another great common password. If you’re using one of these, change it,” says Chandler.
Cybercriminals will use commonly used passwords like these to try to get into your account.
Chandler says strong passwords are long in length, include special characters, and should be different for each site.
“If one of those sites gets hacked, now all of a sudden they have access to all of your sites, so you don’t want somebody to have access to everything, your Amazon account, all of your different shopping accounts just …….
