October heralds National Cyber Awareness month, a month dedicated to alerting us to the perils that we face with our internet profiles. We are used to our real life security being promoted and told to be savvy about protecting ourselves, yet people are far less aware of criminals lurking on the internet.
With mobile devices and desktops being predominant in our busy lifestyles, we rely on the internet to provide us with much more information than we did five years ago, and the way we search for things has developed considerably. As our usage continues to grow at such a rate, the importance of our online safety does too.
National cyber awareness security month has been running for the past seven years, alerting us to the perils of phishing, cache poisoning and DNS redirection; all scams that unsuspecting users have fallen prey to, causing them to have bank details and other personal information stolen, as well as fraud committed against them and malware distributed.
The agencies in control of national cyber awareness month; the Department of Homeland Security, The National Cyber Security Alliance and the Multi State Information Sharing of Analysis Centre are eager for people to carry on with this programme through they year, but promote safe internet usage through the month, educating peers, training employees and staff, and raising awareness in the communities.
If you are purchasing wholesale domain names through the month, recommendations are that you use a reputable site that protect card details and secure your profile to the level you would.
